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EASY TO USE INTERNET VOICE CHAT AVAILABLE FOR USE! All you have to do is become an eGroups.com member (free)! Then create your group, which can use an e-mail listserv, text chat, voice chat (forget the phone! use internet!), share a calendar of events, links, files, create polls, etc. ALL FOR FREE! and it's easy! Click here for more!

Talk is Cheap: Then Why Aren't We Doing More of It? Electronic discussion groups provide easy and inexpensive way to beat the high cost of phone and fax communications across borders. But if this is the case, why is it sometimes difficult to sustain the momentum and communicate? Click here for an article about this subject from World Health Magazine.

Americans in the Information Age Falling Through the Net: Released July 8, 1999. Third report in the Falling Through the Net series on the Telecommunications and Information Technology Gap in America.

Links:

bulletNational Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), US Dept. of Commerce
bulletOffice of Telecommunications and Information Applications (OTIA) - assists state and local governments, educations and health care entities, libraries, public service agencies, and other groups in effectively using telecommunications and information technologies to better provide public services and advance other national goals. This is accomplished through the administration of the Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program (TIIAP) and the Public Telecommunications Facilities Program (PTFP)
bulletNTIA's Links to Other Telecommunications and Information Sources
bulletThe President's Information Infrastructure Task Force (IITF)
bulletNational Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
bulletTechnology Administration (TA), US Dept. of Commerce
bulletOffice of Technology Policy (OTP), US Dept. of Commerce
bulletUnderstanding the Digital Economy
bulletUnited States Government Electronic Commerce Policy
bulletFederal Electronic Commerce Program
bulletWireless Telecommunications Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
bulletAdvisory Commission on Electronic Commerce (ACEC) - The Adisory Commission on Electronic Commerce was created by Congress to study federal, state, local and international taxation and tariffs on transactions using the Internet and Internet access.
 

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