Jay Hauben

Name: Jay Hauben

E-mail: jrh29@columbia.edu

Organization: Amateur Computerist

City and State: New york, NY

Area of Employment: library

How I heard about Network Democracy:

From email message from Colleagues

My experience in this area:

The Amateur Computerist has championed universal access to email and a text browser since 1991. We have taken as our model the Communications Act of 1934. We have documented the goal of Universal Access for all Canadians by the year 2000 by reporting on the FreeNet and Community Network Movement in Canada. We have studied and documented the history of Cleveland FreeNet and the Access For All movement in Europe.,Etc

What I hope to learn:

I feel that the position of universal free access to email and a text browser needs to be fully thrown into the pot and defended from the point of the economy, social necesity, and democrarcy. I will contribute that point of view and will gain from the exchange of opinions and arguements. This is one of the most important current questions facing every society today. Will to be on line be a privilege or a right?

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