Access, Affordability and Universal Service on the Canadian Information Highway


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This paper was prepared at the Information Highway Advisory Council request to promote public awareness about the issues of access, affordability and universal service on the information highway and to encourage public comment. Topics examined are: how can an advanced information infrastructure improve the growth and competitiveness of Canadian businesses; how can we ensure universal, affordable access to essential services for all Canadians; how can we develop an appropriate balance between competition and regulation; and, how can we promote the development and distribution of Canadian culture and content.




Citizenship and Participation in the Information Age


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This book reflects each contributor's vision of the future, visions that range from the enthusiastic and hopeful to the pessimistic and fearful.




Information, Place, and Cyberspace


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This book explores how new communication and information technologies combine with transportation to modify human spatial and temporal relationships in everyday life. It targets the need to differentiate accessibility levels among a broad range of social groupings, the need to study disparities in electronic accessibility, and the need to investigate new measures and means of representing the geography of opportunity in the information age. It explores how models based on physical notions of distance and connectivity are insufficient for understanding the new structures and behaviors that characterize current regional realities, with examples drawn from Europe, New Zealand, and North America. While traditional notions of accessibility and spatial interaction remain important, information technologies are dramatically modifying and expanding the scope of these core geographical concepts.







Human Rights in an Information Age


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Cyberidentities


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This innovative study explores diverse aspects of Canadian and European identity on the information highway and reaches beyond technical issues to confront and explore communication, culture and the culture of communication. Published in English.







Perspectives on the New Economics and Regulation of Telecommunications


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This volume is a compilation of papers reflecting many of the issues related to telecommunications that are being debated today and are likely to continue to be addressed in the next few years. The papers examine the ways in which economic and technological forces are changing the regulation of telecommunications and the characteristics of the industry itself. After an introduction on issues such as the information highway, industry consolidation, market integration, and constraints on new policies, the papers cover such topics as the changes in Canadian telecommunications and their economics, the role of telecommunications in productivity and competition, the business network concept as an alternative governance structure, competition policy, convergence of technologies, separation of infrastructure from services, European telecommunications policy, and the historical context in which Canada has handled earlier transformations of a technological nature.




Canada's Information Highway


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The Advisory Council was established to advance the goal of making Canada a world leader in the provision and use of the Information Highway, creating economic, social and cultural advantage for all Canadians. This progress report describes the Council and its structure, and discusses public policy issues. The issues covered fall under the topics of building a competitive, advanced network infrastructure; content on the Information Highway; and benefits of the Information Highway. Advisory Council and Work Group members are listed at the end of the document.