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Seventh
World Conference of Community Radio Broadcasters
Milan, 23-29 August 1998 Main | Activities | Local information | Register now! | Virtual Forum | Other links Septième
Assemblée mondiale des radiodiffuseurs communautaires
Séptima
Asamblea Mundial de Radios Comunitarias
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In a message dated 8/3/98 10:15:54 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << The practical talent, wisdom and resources of this group are impressive. I have particularly valued the thoughts of Lyn andJose as well as B.Keith Fulton's 'digital divide' >> ** I am pleased that we have found kindred spirits in this forum. We must work together to make sure that we evolve what I call the "modern community infrastructure." In this construct, competent service organizations - schools, libraries, community based organizations, churches, government, corporations, and foundations, etc. -- must work together to leverage the global information infrastructure to help people to help themselves. None of us can do it alone. With the GII/NII we can provide just in time support to all who might need it. Just as we gain from being here virtually, so too must others who are not yet as fortunate. ** As the early adopters of this new medium, we shoulder the burden of helping low-income and the least-informed to get connected and to build quality content that leads to meaningful advancement in physical-space. This medium is just a tool, but it is a most impressive and powerful tool. What we choose to do at these crossroads, will have an impact on the next 50 years of access and opportunity for our global family. The best of us must work to guarantee that the rest of us are not regulated to the "have-less" as we march into the 21st Century. ** Our book on this topic -- Losing Ground Bit-by-Bit: Low-Income Communities In the Information Age - can be found at our website (www.nul.org). I am at our national conference now in Philadelphia. You can see the whole thing live from our website. Audio and video are available. We also digitize the content for later viewing. This will be archived perpetually. Other content like our mission video, and our recent Urban Technology Summit that was on C- SPAN and broadcasts to 5,000 folk on the Internet, is also archived at our site. ** New friends, I look forward to this dialogue. Moderator, is there a focus topic, or are we to simply respond extemporaneously to comments that make us go hmmmm? Virtually, B. Keith Fulton Director of Technology Programs & Policy National Urban League 120 Wall Street New York, NY 10005 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ AMARC 7 Foro Virtual Forum Virtuel http://www.amarc.org/amarc7 to unsubscribe / pour se desabonner / para abandonar : e-mail "unsubscribe amarc-1 " to: [email protected]