OUTLINE & REFERENCE LIST

S. Braman, "Defining information: An approach for policy makers," Telecommunications Policy, Sept. 1989, pp. 233-42.

C. Shapiro & H. Varian, "U.S. Government Information Policy," Available at: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/policy/policy.html

 L. R. Schiff, Informed Consent: Information Production and Ideology (Lanham, MD & Oxford: Scarecrow Press, 2003).

Older references that may provide additional insights:

I. Rowlands & S. Vogel, Information Policies: A Sourcebook (London: Taylor Graham, 1991).

M. R. Rubin, Information Economics and Policy in the U.S. (Littleton, CO: Libraries Unltd., 1983). Selected chapters.

V. Rosenberg, "National Information Policies" in M. E. Williams, ed., ASIS Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, Vol. 17 (Knowledge Industry Publications, White Plains, NY, 1982) p. 3-32.

J. Yurow, et al., Issues in Information Policy, NTIA, U.S. Dept. of Commerce (NTIA-SP-80-9), 1981.

S. Nora & A. Minc, L'informatisation de la Societe (La Documentation Francaise, 1978); translated as The Computerization of Society (MIT Press, 1980). [The introduction by Daniel Bell is particularly interesting.]

Ithiel de Sola Pool, "A Shadow Darkens," Chapter 1 in Technologies of Freedom,  (Belknap/Harvard Univ. Press, 1983).

The Bangemann Report. Europe and the Global Information Society: Recommendations to the European Council, May 5, 1994. Available at:  http://eff.org/pub/Global/UN/GII/bangemann_report.summary

K. W. Grewlich, "The Power of Global Communication: Data Highways and Multimedia-Competition and Cooperation," in (M. Jussawalla).

N. D. Karunaratne, " "Policy Challenges in the Emergent Borderless World," in (M. Jussawalla).

M. Kirby, "The Human Genome Project-Promise or Problems?" in (M. Jussawalla).

[Aspen Institute] Bits Across Borders: Policy Choices for International Multimedia and Digital Services (1996).

G. Shultz, "The Shape, Scope, and Consequences of the Age of Information." Current Policy No. 811, Bureau of Public Affairs, U.S. Dept. of State, March 21, 1986 (4 pp.).

J. Bortnick, "National and International Information Policy," Jour. Amer. Soc. Inf. Sci. 36: 164-68 (May 1985).

Canadian-U.S. Conference on Communications Policy, Cultures in Collision (New York: Praeger, 1984).

National Research Council, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, For the Record: Protecting Electronic Health Information (1997).

State of Michigan web page with tips and sources about evaluating Internet-based health and medical information: http://mel.lib.mi.us/health/health-evaluating.html

Samples of sites that assist in online diagnosis for mental illness:  [Important: see all disclaimers below!]

My favorite statement on the NII: "The National Information Infrastructure is currently inactive. For historical and research purposes the following information will remain available online for six months."   Found at:  "DoD: Building on the National Information Infrastructure," http://www.defenselink.mil/c3i/other/niihome.html

William J. Clinton & Albert Gore, Jr., "A Framework for Global Electronic Commerce." Available at: http://www.technology.gov/digeconomy/framewrk.htm

W. S. Baer, "Government Investment in Telecommunications Infrastructure," in National Research Council, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, The Changing Nature of Telecommunications/ Information Infrastructure (1995 ).

R. E. Kahn, "Economic Dividends of Government Investment in Research and Technology Development," in NRC, The Changing Nature...(1995)

J. A. Hart, R. R. Reed & F. Bar, "The Building of the Internet: Implications for the Future of Broadband Networks," Telecommunications Policy 16: 666-689 (Nov. 1992)

M. Kapor, Building the Open Road: The NREN as Test-Bed for the National Public Network (Network Working Group RFC-1259, September 1991); Available at: http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/rfc/rfc1259.html

National Research Council, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, Keeping the U.S. Computer Industry Competitive (2 vols., 1990).

Amy Friedlander, "Infrastructure: The Utility of Past as Prologue?" in Fostering Research on the Economic and Social Impacts of Information Technology.(Washington D.C.: National Academy Press, 1998) 165-187.

M. Jussawalla & R. D. Taylor, ed., Information Technology Parks of the Asia Pacific (M. E. Sharpe, 2003).

R. H. Coase, "The Problem of Social Cost," Jour. of Law and Economics 3: 1 (1960). [A good discussion is in: "School's Brief: Of Bees and Lighthouses," The Economist (Feb. 23, 1991), pp. 72-73.]

Y. M. Braunstein, Economic Impacts of Database Protection in Developing Countries Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights, World Intellectual Property Organization (Geneva, 2002). Available at:  http://www.wipo.int/eng/meetings/2002/sccr/pdf/sccr7_2.pdf

Alternative views available at:

J.-P. Chamoux, "Free Speech and Property Rights," in (M. Jussawalla).

D. E. Denning & H. S. Lin, eds., Rights and Responsibilities of Participants in Networked Communities, National Research Council, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (1994).

P. Wilson, "Copyright, Derivative Rights, and the First Amendment," Library Trends 39:92-110 (Special Issue on Intellectual Freedom, Summer/Fall 1990).

C. A. Lynch, "Future Roles of Libraries in Citizen Access to Information Resources through the National Information Infrastructure," in National Research Council, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, The Changing Nature of Telecommunications/Information Infrastructure (1995).

U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Informing the Nation: Federal Information Dissemination in an Electronic Age (Washington, D.C.: USGPO, 1988. OTA-CIT-396).

Government Information Quarterly, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1989 (Special issue discussing the OTA report).

P. Hernon and C. R. McClure, Public Access To Government Information: Issues, Trends, And Strategies, 2nd ed. (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1988).

American Library Association, Commission on Freedom and Equality, Freedom And Equality Of Access To Information: A Report To The American Library Association (Chicago: ALA, 1986). (Referred to as Lacy Commission Report.)

N. L. Eaton, "Freedom and Equality of Access to Information: The Lacy Commission Report," Library Trends 39:111-25 (1990).

J. H. Moor, "The Ethics of Privacy Protection," Library Trends 39:69-82 (1990).

R. W. Kastenmeier, et al., "Communications Privacy: A Legislative Perspective," Wisconsin Law Review   :715-37 (1989). (An account of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986.)

F. Weingarten, "Communications Technology: New Challenges to Privacy," John Marshall Law Review 21:735-53 (1988).

U. S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, The Electronic Supervisor: New Technologies, New Tensions (Washington, D.C.: USGPO, 1987)

U. S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Electronic Surveillance and Civil Liberties (Washington, D.C.: USGPO, 1985. OTA-CIT-293.)

T. Baker, "Does Privacy Have a Principle," Stanford Law Review 26: 1161-89 (1974).

[As a topic, universal service includes aspects of several issues, including access to information, public vs. private provision, user fees, the functioning of markets, and common carrier policy. Below are a few interesting cites and a link to the FCC's Universal Service home page.  It is useful to compare this approach to the approaches used in the "digital divide" debates and references, such as those used in IS 204.]

M. Mueller & J. Schement, "Universal Service from the Bottom Up: A Profile of Telecommunications Access in Camden, New Jersey," The Information Society, 12: (1996).

M. Mueller, "Universal Service in Telephone History: a Reconstruction," Telecommunications Policy 18:352-69 (July 1993).

U. S. Federal Communications Commission, Common Carrier Bureau,
Available at:  http://www.fcc.gov/ccb/universal_service/welcome.html

Information Industry Association, "Meeting Information Needs in the New Information Age: A Policy Statement on the Roles of the Public and Private Sectors." (Washington, DC: IIA, 1983).

D. D. McDonald, "Public Sector/Private Sector Interaction in Information Services" in M.E. Williams, ed., ASIS Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, Vol 17, p. 83-98 (1982).

U. S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, Public Sector/Private Sector Interaction in Providing Information Services. 1982

M. D. Cooper & N. A. DeWath, "The Effect of User Fees on the Cost of On-Line Searching in Libraries" in D. W. King, et al., Key Papers in the Economics of Information (White Plains: Knowledge Ind. Publ., 1983).

N. A. Van House, Public Library User Fees (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983)

C. A. Casper, "Economic Pricing Models and Their Application to Library Services" in R. M. Mason & J. E. Creps, Jr., Information Services: Economics, Management, and Technology (Boulder: Westview Press, 1981).

S. M. Besen, et al., "Copyright Liability for Cable Television: Compulsory Licensing and the Coase Theorem," Jour. of Law and Economics 21:67-95 (1978).

N. Economides, "Competition Policy in Network Industries: An Introduction," in Dennis Jansen (ed.), The New Economy: Just How New is It (University of Chicago Press, 2003), .  Available at:  http://www.stern.nyu.edu/networks/Competition_Policy.pdf

T. J. Brennan, "Integrating Communication Theory into Media Policy: An Economic Perspective," Telecommunications Policy 16: 460-474 (Aug. 1992)

B. M. Compaine, Anatomy of the Communications Industry: Who Owns the Media?, (White Plains: Knowledge Ind. Publ., 1983). (Earlier versions titled Who Owns the Media?.)

B. M. Owen, The Economics of the Freedom of Expression (Lexington, 1975). [Out of print & generally unavailable-but a classic.  Especially relevent to this year's debate on media concentration.]

U. S. Department of Homeland Security (?), The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace,  (GPO, 2003).  Available at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/ .

U. S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Defending Secrets, Sharing Data: New Locks and Keys for Electronic Information (Washington, D.C.: USGPO, 1990. OTA-CIT-310.

S. N. Milevski, "Federal Policy-Making and National Security Controls on Information," Library Trends 39:132-44

N. Economides, "Compatibility and the Creation of Shared Networks," in Guerrin-Calvert & Wildman (1991). Available at: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/networks/91-16abs.html

H. L. Gandel, ed., Product Standardization and Competitive Strategy (Amsterdam & New York: Elsevier, 1987).

Y. M. Braunstein & L. White, "Economics of Technical Compatibility Standards," Antitrust Bulletin 30:337 (1985).

[See also cites in International section above.]

M. Jussawalla, et al., "Major Issues in Information Services Trade," in C. H. Lee and S. Naya, Trade and Investment in Services in the Asia-Pacific Region (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1987).

P. Robinson, "Transborder Data Flows: An Overview of the Issues," in Transborder Data Flows (North-Holland for OECD, 1985).

Peter Cowhey, "Building the Global Information Highway: Toll Booths, Construction Contracts, and Rules of the Road," in Drake, William J. ed., The New Information Infrastructure: Strategies for US Policy. (20th Century Press, 1995) 175-204.