NEW LIST: Netizens Association
Michael Hauben
Netizens Association. We are one step closer, as a mailing list
is now formed to plan and discuss some an association. Following
is the list annoucement and in the next message I will send the
proposed list charter.
Please e-mail me if you have any problems subscribing to the
mailing lists or any thoughts. My e-mail is hau...@columbia.edu
Regards,
/Michael Hauben
NEW LIST ANNOUNCEMENT: NETIZENS ASSOCIATION
During a recent trip to Japan, I met a number of networking
enthusiasts who were interested in spreading the Internet in
Japan. They found the Netizen concept to be helpful in their
efforts. One student who I met in Tokyo, Hiroyuki Takahashi, suggested
that there was a need to form a Netizens Association. This
association could work towards educating people and helping them to
gain literacy in both the technical and social aspects of working,
living and playing on the Net. In addition, this Netizens Association
would function as a forum to bring people together to protect and
advance the Net as a new public commons and global community. I
propose to work towards forming a prototype for a local Netizens
Association chapter. The success of a few such chapters could lead to
the spreading of chapters focused around educational institutions or
communities. This would be in conjunction with efforts by people
working for similar goals in other countries across the globe like
Japan, and Canada. (From Towards a Netizens Association:
Proposed Netizens List Charter)
In response to these common goals, it was proposed that a
Netizens Association be formed. Such an association would fill
two purposes, 1) to bring together netizens interested in
nurturing the net and 2) to spread knowledge and literacy to those
not on-line. To that purpose, the majordomo mailing list
neti...@columbia.edu has been created. This list will begin the
discussion towards the principles, goals and questions for such
an association. I would hope local Netizen Association chapters
would form based on this list. These associations could help
spread Net Literacy and encourage both new and old users to
contribute to the Net. Look to the WWW page
http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netizen/ for more information.
How to Join:
send an e-mail message to netizens...@columbia.edu
with the message body of
subscribe
If this does not work, send e-mail to majo...@columbia.edu with a
message body of
subscribe netizens
If neither way works, write me at netizen...@columbia.edu
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