Subject: RURAL TELECON '98
Roanne Robinson (rrobinson@ntia.doc.gov)
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 15:45:08 -0400
Message-Id: <s5f7f4df.048@ntia.doc.gov> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 15:45:08 -0400 From: Roanne Robinson <rrobinson@ntia.doc.gov> To: roundtable@cni.org Subject: RURAL TELECON '98
Please post widely the following announcement about the upcoming
Rural TeleCon '98. NTIA's TIIAP is one of several co-sponsors of
the event......
Roanne Robinson
<rrobinson@ntia.doc.gov>
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THE 2ND ANNUAL NATIONAL RURAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS
CONFERENCE--OCTOBER 4-6, 1998, ASPEN INSTITUTE, ASPEN,
COLORADO
RuralTeleCon '98 is the place to come and learn, network, collaborate
and begin to actualize ideas that make telecommunications and
information technology work for communities -- ideas dealing with
technology, applications, community, and policy. The conference is
for grassroots practitioners and national proponents alike and is
expected to draw participants from throughout the nation and the world.
Sponsors and funders include the U.S. Department of Commerce's
National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA)
Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program
(TIIAP) and the Economic Development Administration (EDA); the U.S.
Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Cooperative State Research,
Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) and Rural Utilities Service
(RUS); the Association for Community Networking (AFCN); the National
Rural Development Partnership (NRDP); the Aspen Institute's Rural
Economic Policy Program (REPP); the State of Colorado; the Rural Local
Initiative Support Corporation (RLISC); the Colorado Advanced
Technology Institute (CATI); the Colorado Rural Technology Program;
the Colorado Community College and Occupational Education System; the
W.K. Kellogg Foundation; and MCI.
Program highlights include: Keynote Address by Professor Everett
Rogers (father of theory of diffusion of innovations); Congressional
Address by United States Senator Conrad Burns (R-MT), Chairman,
Senate Communications Subcommittee; Federal Communications
Commission Address by Lisa Zana, Senior Counsel and Associate
Bureau Chief Common Carrier Bureau; and Industry Address by John
Rose, President, Organization for Promotion and Advancement of Small
Telecommunications Companies (OPASTCO).
In addition, the program will include 10 concurrent panels covering
topics from wireless, to universal service, to distance learning and
telemedicine, 25 project exhibits, and 15 roundtables on topics suggested
by participants. A unique peer-to-peer consultation session also will
be held where participants share their expertise with one another on 50
topics ranging from community-owned utilities to using the WWW to
market local goods and services globally.
After-conference events include a special workshop led by the NTIA,
covering its TIIAP application process, an outline of some common
strategies for writing a successful TIIAP proposal, and a discussion of
the TIIAP review process.
The registration fee is $175 per person. For registration information
and up-to-the-minute details, visit the conference website at
http://ruraltelecon.org., or contact Toni Black, Colorado Mountain
College, at 970/947-8365 or at black@coloradomtn.edu.
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