RE: to David Hahn-Baker

[Jennifer Cranford <cranford.jennifer@epa.gov>]

I'm interested to see the attention given (e.g., by David Sales, Fred Stoss, Hamilton Brown, Jack Scannell and others) to issues like the digital divide, multi-lingual information, and ways to make environmental data more meaningful for stakeholders and the public.  The tensions between technological prowess, limited access due to digital divide/multi-lingual/other issues, and the ability to create meaning from data are large and difficult to balance.   I'll be interested to see what people have to say about them as the appropriate agenda items present themselves.   (It also may interest people to know that in our office we used the discussion and suggestions from last year's online librarian dialogue, along with other research and sources, in our early development work for the Agency Public Access Strategy.)