Public Access To The Internet

Brian Kahin is Senior Fellow at the Computer & Communications Industry Association in Washington, DC. He is also Research Investigator and Adjunct Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information and a special advisor to the Provost's Office. He is a coeditor of Transforming Enterprise (MIT Press, 2004) and many other books.

Part 1 The public access agenda: the Internet and the national information infrastructure, Brian Kahin; balancing the commercial and public-interest visions of the NII, Lewis M. Branscomb; public access issues - an introduction, James Keller. Part 2 The sociology and culture of the Internet: the WELL - a regionally based on-line community on the Internet, Cliff Figallo; atheism, sex and databases - the Net as a social technology, Lee Sproull and Samer Faraj. Part 3 Establishing network communities: learning and teaching on the Internet - contributing to educational reform, Beverly Hunter; issues in the development of community cooperative networks, Frank Odasz; public access to the Internet - American Indian and Alaskan Native issues, George Baldwin; the role of public libraries in providing public access to the Internet, Carol C. Henderson and Frederick D. King. Part 4 Accommodating new classes of users: the Internet and the poor, Richard Civille; meeting the challenges of business and end-user communities on the Internet - what they want, what they need, what they're doing, Daniel Dern; models for the Internet local loop, Miles Fidelman; Internet architectural and policy implications for migration from high-end user to the "new user", Terrence P. McGarty and Carole Haywood. Part 5 Pricing and service models: pricing the Internet, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason and Hal R. Varian; service models and pricing policies for an integrated services Internet, Scott Shenker; pricing and competition policies for the Internet, Michael A. Einhorn; network analysis issues for a public Internet, Hans-Werner Braun and Kimberly C. Claffy.