Below: Historical Archive: Prior R&D Intelligence, and, Analysis.

National Information Infrastructure:
Myths, Metaphors And Realities

APPENDIX 1: MAJOR MILESTONES OF THE NII

A review of the major milestones of the NII implementation is provided in this section in the form of a list of the major testimonies and speeches, publications and documents and papers.

Testimony and Speeches

Assistant Secretary Larry Irving, Telecommunications and Information Technologies and Their Impact on Inner-City Communities: The Opportunity and the Threat, Remarks at the Harlem Economic Development Conference, August 10, 1994

Dr. Arati Prabhakar, Technology and Applications: Building the NII, before the IEEE/Technology Policy Council on the NII, McLean, Virginia, June 29, 1994

Dr. Arati Prabhakar Designing the Information Infrastructure, before the IEEE Spectrum NII Roundtable, Washington, D.C., June 28, 1994

Assistant Secretary Larry Irving, Today's Challenge for the Electronics Industry: Think Creatively, remarks at Infohighway '94 Consumer Electronics Show, June 23, 1994

Johnathan Sallet, Director of the Office of Policy and Strategic Planning - Remarks to the Wireless Cable Association International, Las Vegas, NV, June 21, 1994

Dr. Arati Prabhakar, The NII and the Committee on Applications and Technology: An Update, before the North American ISDN Users' Forum NII Seminar, Washington, D.C., June 21, 1994

Vice President Gore, Remarks before the Communications Workers of America, Detroit, Michigan, June 14, 1994

Cita Furlani (for Dr. Arati Prabhakar), Before the Subcommittee on Technology, Environment, and Aviation and the Subcommittee on Science, Committee on Science, Space, and Technology on Electronic Commerce and Interoperability in the National Information Infrastructure (House), May 26, 1994

Secretary Ronald Brown, Remarks before the Conference on Educational Technology, Lincoln, Nebraska, May 21, 1994

Dr. Arati Prabhakar, Committee on Applications and Technology of the Information Infrastructure Task Force: An Update, before the Brookings Institute, May 19, 1994

Assistant Secretary Larry Irving, Speech before the International Herald Tribune Washington & World Business Conference, April 21, 1994

Secretary Ronald Brown, Global Information Infrastructure before Alex Brown & Sons Media Communications Seminar, New York, New York, April 19, 1994

Assistant Secretary Larry Irving, Appropriations Hearing before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary and Related Agencies, Committee on Appropriations (House), April 14, 1994

Dr. Arati Prabhakar, The National Information Infrastructure: Preparing for Its Impact on the Future of Health Care, before the Health Care Information Solutions Conference, Washington, D.C., April 14, 1994

Vice President Gore, Shaping the National Information Infrastructure, before the Public Interest Summit, Washington D.C., March 29, 1994

Dr. Arati Prabhakar, Civilian Technology for Economic Growth: The Changing Face of Federal R&D NII Applications and Technology, before the Bellcore's General Research Colloquium, Murray Hill, New Jersey, March 28-30, 1994 17.

Vice President Gore, Global Information Infrastructure, before the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Conference, Buenos Aires, March 21, 1994

Dr. Arati Prabhakar, Federal Role in Information Infrastructure, before ARPA's High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) Symposium, Alexandria, Virginia, March 17, 1994

Assistant Secretary Larry Irving, Beyond a 500 Channel World, Remarks before The Road to the Future: Economic Growth, Universal Access, and the National Information Superhighway, Tulsa, Oklahoma, February 25, 1994

Secretary Ronald Brown, S.1822, The Communications Act of 1994, before the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation (Senate), February 23, 1994

Assistant Secretary Larry Irving, The Clinton Administration's National Information Infrastructure Initiative, before the United States Chamber of Commerce, Washington D.C., February 8, 1994

Assistant Secretary Larry Irving, Telecommunications Reform Legislation, before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance, Committee on Energy and Commerce (House), January 27, 1994

Assistant Secretary Larry Irving, Telecommunications Reform Legislation, before the Subcommittee on Economic and Commercial Law, Committee on the Judiciary (House), January 26, 1994

Vice President Gore, National Telecommunications Reform, before the Academy of Television Arts and Science, University of California - Los Angeles (Royce Hall), January 11, 1994

Dr. Arati Prabhakar, The NII: A View from the Department of Commerce, before the Annenberg Washington Program's Conference on the National Information Infrastructure, Washington, D.C., November 9, 1993

Dr. Arati Prabhakar, CALS and the NII Information Technology Tools to Promote Economic Growth, before the CALS Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia, October 26, 1993

Secretary Ronald Brown, Remarks before the Networked Economy Conference, Washington D.C., October 20, 1993

Dr. Arati Prabhakar, The National Information Infrastructure and NIST's Role, before Women in Government Relations, Washington, D.C., September 29, 1993

Dr. Arati Prabhakar, Building the National Information Infrastructure: The Role of Government, before the Industry Summit (MIT), Cambridge, MA, September 9-12, 1993.

List of Publications

The Information Infrastructure: Realizing Society's Goals Report (Released September 1994 by the IITF Committee on Applications & Technology)

The NII Field Hearings on Universal Service and Open Access: America Speaks Out Report (Released September 1994 by the IITF Technology Policy Committee)

A Vision for Government Information Technology Services and the National Information Infrastructure Report (Released August 1994 by the Government Information Technology Services Working Group of the IITF Committee on Applications and Technology)

Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure Preliminary Draft Report Released July 1994 by the IITF Intellectual Property Rights Working Group)

Economic Benefits of the Administration's Legislative Proposals for Telecommunications (Released June 14, 1994 by the Council of Economic Advisers)

Putting the Information Infrastructure to Work Report (Released May 1994 by the IITF Committee on Applications & Technology)

Government Information Locator Service (GILS) Draft Report (Released April 1994 by the IITF Information Policy Committee)

Draft Principles for the Code of Fair Information Practices Report (Released April 1994 by the IITF Information Policy Committee)

20/20 Vision, The Development of a National Information Infrastructure (Released March 1994)

The White Paper Administration White Paper on Communications Act Reforms (Released January 26, 1994)

What It Takes To Make It Happen: Key Issues For Applications Of The National Information Infrastructure (Released January 25, 1994 by the IITF Committee on Applications & Technology)

Background on the Administration's Telecommunications Policy Reform Initiative (Released January 11, 1994)

Documents and Papers

Global Information Infrastructure: Agenda for Cooperation (02/15/95)

GII: Agenda for Cooperation (HTML VERSION) (02/15/95)

"Breaking the Barriers to the NII" Conf. Report (12/94)

National Information Infrastructure: Progress Report - Web version (09/13/94)

National Information Infrastructure: Progress Report -Gopher version (09/13/94)

Reengineering Through Information Technology (08/22/94)

Report of Advanced Digital Video in the NII Workshop 08/12/94

Framework for NII Services (HTML-formatted) 07/27/94

Intellectual Property Working Group Draft Report (08/03/94)

Summary of 03/29/94 Public Interest Summit (04/15/94)

Administration White Paper - Communications Act Reform 01/27/94

CAT Report 01/25/94 "What It Takes to Make It Happen"

State of the Union Address (as delivered) 01/25/94

Policy Reform Initiative 01/11/94

Summary of Telecom Policy Legislative Agenda 01/11/94

National Information Infrastructure: Agenda for Action 09/15/93

Summary of Federal-State-Local Planning Conference 11/19/93

Charter of the GITS Working Group 03/03/94

National Performance Review -- Cutting the Red Tape.

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