[Random-bits] Forum 2000: "Technology and Innovation:

[James Love]

Latest of the Department of State, ACICIP meetings

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                          Forum 2000
                  "Technology and Innovation:
               How are Governments Responding?"
                                
  The State Department's Advisory Committee on International
  Communications and Information Policy (ACICIP) will have a
  not-to-be-missed special forum on Thursday, October 26,
  2000, 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., room 1107, at the Main State
  Department building at 2201 "C" Street, N.W., Washington. 
  The meeting is open to the public.
  
  The meeting is being organized as "Forum 2000" at which
  three prominent governmental representatives from the
  European Union and the United States will address the issue
  of "Technology and Innovation:  How are Governments
  Responding?"  The three representatives will be Sibylle
  Frucht of the Washington Delegation of the European
  Commission; Kathy Brown, Chief of Staff, Federal
  Communications Commission, and Donald Russell, Chief,
  Telecommunications Taskforce, U.S. Department of Justice.
  
  Members of the public are welcome to attend the meeting as
  room capacity allows.  As access to the Department of State
  is controlled, persons wishing to attend the meeting must be
  pre-cleared by e-mailing the following information to ACICIP
  Executive Secretary Timothy C. Finton at fintontc@state.gov:
  name; company or organization affiliation (if any); date of
  birth; and social security number, no later than noon on
  October 25.
  
  On the day of the meeting, pre-cleared persons must use the
  23rd Street entrance to the State Department (between 9:15
  and 9:30 a.m.) and have a driver's license with photo, a
  passport, a U.S. Government ID or other valid photo
  identification.  Those members of the public wishing further
  information should contact Mr. Finton at the e-mail address
  above or by phone at (202) 647-5385.  The meeting is not
  open to the electronic media.
  
  Attached is the draft agenda for the meeting.
  
                                                               
                               
                               
                        Meeting of the
      Advisory Committee on International Communications
                    and Information Policy
                  Thursday, October 26, 2000
                     9:30 a.m., Room 1107
          U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.
                               
                            AGENDA
                                
  I.     Opening by Chairman Ed Black:  Introduction of ACICIP
       Members and Members of the Audience
       
  II.    Discussion of ICAIS (International Charging
       Arrangements for Internet Services) and the WTSA (World
       Telecommunication Standardization Assembly)
       
  Malcolm R. Lee,
  U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and
       Information Policy
       
       III.    Forum 2000
  
  Technology and Innovation:  How are Governments
       Responding?
          Sibylle Frucht
  Delegation of the European Commission
  Washington
  
  Kathy Brown
  Chief of Staff
  Federal Communications Commission
  
  Donald Russell
  Chief, Telecommunications Taskforce
       U.S. Department of Justice
  
  IV.     Working Group Report:
  
  Internet: Content, Taxation, and Miscellaneous
  Reporting:  Lew Cramer, Summit Ventures
  
  V. Future Committee Meeting Date
  
     

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