[1st-mile-nm] Knight News Flash: Blue Ribbon Commission Calls for Urgent Attention to U.S. Information Needs

[Tom Johnson]

fyi
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/10/02/arts/AP-US-Informing-Citizens.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=broadband&st=cse

Also, see this discouraging story in yesterday's NYTimes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/01/technology/internet/01broad.html?scp=1&sq=sweden+broadband&st=nyt

-tj

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From: Marc Fest <fest at knightfoundation.org>
Date: Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 5:08 AM
Subject: Knight News Flash: Blue Ribbon Commission Calls for Urgent
Attention to U.S. Information Needs
To: tom at jtjohnson.com


October 2, 2009 – Washington, D.C. – Warning of an erosion of democracy with
the creation of "second-class citizens" in the digital age, a Knight-funded
blue-ribbon national commission today calls for universal broadband access
to help meet the information needs of America's communities. The Knight
Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy releases
its report today in Washington DC, setting a vision for healthy, informed,
democratic communities.

More: http://www.kflinks.com/knightcomm

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