The Information Infrastructure Project at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government announces the publication of the Information Infrastructure Sourcebook. The Sourcebook is designed to provide planners and policymakers a single volume reference on efforts to define and develop policy for a national information infrastructure. It includes historical policy documents, private sector vision statements and position papers, program and project descriptions (all sectors), landmark reports and pending legislation.
In assembling the Sourcebook, we have looked for documents that have had or are likely to have an impact on policy development, that are formal in nature, and that deal with information infrastructure at a general rather than topic level. In general, material is reproduced as is, although we have excerpted in the interests of space, relevance, balance, and consistency. Because of changes in technology, markets, programs and policies, the Sourcebook will of necessity require supplementation or revision on a regular basis. So we will look for new or updated contributions whenever they become available. Please direct any suggestions for additional material to:
James Keller Project Coordinator Information Infrastructure Project Kennedy School of Government Harvard University 79 JFK Street Cambridge, MA 02138 tel: (617) 496-4042 e-mail: kellerj@ksg1.harvard.edu
The Sourcebook is available for $40, including Priority Mail postage and handling. If you would like to receive a copy of the Sourcebook, please send a check for $40 payable to Harvard University to:
Graceann Todaro Center for Science and International Affairs Kennedy School of Government Harvard University 79 JFK Street Cambridge, MA 02138
The Table of Contents from the Sourcebook is provided below:
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Information Infrastructure Sourcebook
Official Documents
Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering and Technology, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President, FCCSET Initiatives in the FY 1994 Budget, Washington, DC, April 8, 1993. (Introduction and excerpts)
President William J. Clinton & Vice President Albert Gore, Jr., Technology for America's Economic Growth, A New Direction to Build Economic Strength, White House, Washington, DC, February 22, 1993. (excerpts)
Allan D. Bromley, The National Research and Education Network Program: A Report to Congress, OSTP, Washington, DC, December, 1992. (Table of Contents and Executive Summary)
Committee on Physical, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences, Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering and Technology, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Grand Challenges 1993: High Performance Computing and Communications, a Supplement to the President's Fiscal Year 1993 Budget, Washington, DC, 1992.
Committee on Physical, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences, Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering and Technology, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Grand Challenges: High Performance Computing and Communications, a Supplement to the President's Fiscal Year 1992 Budget, Washington, DC, 1991.
U.S. Congress, Public Law 102-94 - High Performance Computing Act of 1991, Washington, DC, December 9, 1991.
U.S. Congress, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation - Report 102-57, High Performance Computing Act of 1991, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, May 16, 1991.
Executive Office of the President, Office of Science and Technology Policy, The Federal High Performance Computing Program, OSTP, Washington, DC, September 8, 1989. (Executive Summary)
Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President, A Research and Development Strategy for High Performance Computing, Washington, DC, November, 1987.
Vision Statements and Position Papers
CALS Vision: Economic Growth Through Worldwide Enterprise Integration, CALS Industry Steering Group, National Security Industrial Association, undated.
Cable Television Laboratories, Inc., Cable's Role in the "Information Superhighway", Boulder, CO, 1993.
Computer Systems Policy Project, Perspectives on the National Information Infrastructure: CSPP's Vision and Recommendations for Action, Washington, DC, 1993.
Council on Competitiveness, Vision for a 21st Century Information Infrastructure, Washington, DC, May, 1993.
Electronic Frontier Foundation, The Open Platform: A Proposal by the Electronic Frontier Foundation for a National Telecommunications Infrastructure, Cambridge, MA & Washington, DC, 1992.
Information Industry Association, Telecommunications Infrastructure Objectives and Implementation Principles, Washington, DC, April, 1993.
Mary Gardiner Jones, The Consumer Interest in Telecommunications Infrastructure Modernization, Consumer Interest Research Institute, January 21-24, 1990.
Robert Kahn, National Information Infrastructure Components, Serials Review, Spring and Summer, 1992.
National Cable Television Association, Cable Television and America's Telecommunications Infrastructure, Washington, DC, 1993.
Telecommunications industry CEOs, Policy Statement on NII, March 24, 1993.
Program & Project Descriptions - all sectors
Robert Aiken, Hans Werner Braun, Peter Ford & Kimberly Claffy, NSF Implementation Plan for Interagency Interim NREN, National Science Foundation, May 1, 1992.
The CENDI Group, an overview, undated.
EINet - Stepping into the Electronic Marketplace: a Technical Overview, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, undated.
Federal Research Internet Coordinating Committee, Department of Energy, Program Plan for the National Research and Education Network, Washington, DC, May 16, 1989.
First Cities - Interactive Multimedia Information: Where, When and How You Want It, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, undated.
The National Initiative for Product Data Exchange, NIST, an overview, November, 1992.
The National Science Foundation, Program Solicitation: Network Access Point Manager, Routing Arbiter, Regional Network Providers, and Very High Speed Backbone Network Services Provider for NSFNet and the NREN Program, Washington, DC, National Science Foundation, DC, May 6, 1993.
Technology Reinvestment Project, Program Information Package for Defense Technology Conversion, Reinvestment and Transition Assistance, Arlington, VA, March 10, 1993. (Introduction and excerpts)
Reports
Computer Science and Technology Board, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Resources, National Research Council, The National Challenge in Computer Science and Technology, National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1988. (Chapter 3: The Promise of Infrastructure)
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council, National Collaboratories, National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1993. (Executive summary and Chapter 1)
"The Future Federal Information Infrastructure: The Responsibility of the Federal Information Resources Management Community", excerpted from the Information Resources Plan of the Federal Government, Office of Management and Budget, November, 1992.
National Research and Education Network Review Committee of the Computer Science and Technology Board, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Resources, National Research Council, Toward a National Research Network, National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1988. (Executive Summary)
National Telecommunications and Information Administration, The NTIA Infrastructure Report - Telecommunications in the Age of Information, Executive Summary, U.S. Department of Commerce, October, 1991.
Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress, Critical Connections: Communication for the Future, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, January, 1990. (Chapter 1 - Summary)
Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress, Global Standards - Building Blocks for the Future, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, March, 1992. (p. 26-30)
Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress, Helping America Compete - The Role of Federal Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, July, 1990. (Chapter 1 - Summary)
Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress, Informing the Nation, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, October, 1988. (Chapter 1 - Summary)
Panel on Information Technology and the Conduct of Research, National Academy of Sciences, Information Technology and the Conduct of Research: The User's View, National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1989. (Executive Summary)
Proceedings of the NREN Workshop, Monterey, California, September 16-18, 1992 (excluding appendices), Computing Research Association/EDUCOM/IEEE U.S. Activities Board, with assistance from the National Science Foundation Grant NCR- 921671.
Steven R. Rivkin and Jeremy D. Rosner, Shortcut to the Information Superhighway: A Progressive Plan to Speed the Telecommunications Revolution, Progressive Policy Institute Policy Report No. 15, July 1992. (Introduction and Part four: a Progressive Strategy to Build the Fiber-Optic Network)
Proposed Legislation
U.S. Congress, Communications Competitiveness and Infrastructure Modernization Act of 1993 - H.R. 1504, Washington, DC, March 29, 1993.
U.S. Congress, To Establish a System of State-based Electronic Libraries - S.626, Washington, DC, March 22, 1993.
U.S. Congress, High Performance Computing and High Speed Networking Applications Act of 1993 - H.R. 1757, Washington, DC, April 21, 1993.
U.S. Congress, Local Exchange Infrastructure Modernization Act of 1993 - H.R. 1312, Washington, DC, March 11, 1993.
U.S. Congress, National Competitiveness Act of 1993 - S.4, Washington, DC, January 21, 1993.
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