========================================================================= _ _ __| | ___ _ __ ___ ___ ___ _ __ __ _ ___ _ _ _ __ ___| |_ / _` |/ _ \ '_ ` _ \ / _ \ / __| '__/ _` |/ __| | | | | '_ \ / _ \ __| | (_| | __/ | | | | | (_) | (__| | | (_| | (__| |_| |_| | | | __/ |_ \__,_|\___|_| |_| |_|\___/ \___|_| \__,_|\___|\__, (_)_| |_|\___|\__| |___/ "Government Without Walls" _________________________________________________________________________ Update No.5 http://www.democracy.net/ April 10 1997 _________________________________________________________________________ Table of Contents - Join Silicon Valley Internet Policy Leader Anna Eshoo (D-CA) Live April 16. - Background on Rep. Eshoo - democracy.net statistics - About democracy.net ___________________________________________________________________________ JOIN SILICON VALLEY INTERNET POLICY LEADER ANNA ESHOO (D-CA) Live ONLINE! Representative Anna Eshoo (D-CA), walks point for Silicon Valley on Internet policy issues. Her career has been marked by outspoken positive positions on Internet policy, but also for her groundbreaking work of making the Internet a tool for servicing her constituents better. Rep. Eshoo will hold a live online interactive 'town hall meeting' at democracy.net on Wednesday April 16 at 8:30 pm Eastern (5:30 pm Pacific). The town hall meeting, moderated by Wired Magazine's Todd Lappin, will be completely virtual. The discussion will be cybercast live via RealAudio, and listeners can join a simultaneous interactive chat discussion and pose questions to Rep. Eshoo. This is a unique opportunity for Internet users to discuss current Internet issues, including how Congress can better communicate with the public using the Internet, the chances for online speech legislation in the 105th Congress, Congress' agenda for encryption policy reform, and others. Details on the event, including instructions on how you can submit questions in advance, are attached below. ____________________________________________________________________________ INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO PARTICIPATE * Interactive Town Hall Meeting with Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) * DATE: Wednesday, April 16, 1997 TIME: 5:30 pm Pacific / 8:30 pm Eastern LOCATION: http://www.democracy.net In advance of the town hall meeting, please visit http://www.democracy.net and fill out the form to ask Rep. Eshoo a question. We will collect the questions and forward them to the moderator on the day of the event, and will make every effort to ensure that questions from constituents are asked first. 1. Attend and ask Rep. Eshoo a question! Please mark this date in your calendar: Thursday April 16, 5:30PM Pacific at http://democracy.net/ 2. Get your friends and co-workers to join the discussion Members of Congress love to hear from their constituents. If you have friends that live in the district, please forward this invitation and encourage them to attend. 3. Make sure you have the right software To participate in the chat, you will need two pieces of software besides a Web browser. To listen to the _____________________________________________________________________________ BACKGROUND "We need to send a clear, unscrambled message to Washington that our nation's encryption policy needs to be reformed, and reformed now." -- Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA), SAFE Forum, July 1, 1996 Given the 14th District's concentration of high-tech industries, it is not surprising that Rep. Eshoo serves on the House Committee on Commerce. Her subcommittee assignments on this committee include the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection, as well as the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment. The Commerce Committee has policy making power over high technology, biotechnology, public health, and the environment. Through her seat on the Commerce Committee, Rep. Eshoo is well positioned to assist high technology interests in her district. She fought hard to ensure that securities litigation reform and telecommunications reform were signed into law. Rep. Eshoo has introduced the Online Parental Control Act to fight government censorship and encourage parents to use technology to control their children's access to online materials. She has led the fight to improve the Food and Drug Administration's product review process and played an instrumental role in securing the $238 million B Factory for the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. In addition, Rep. Eshoo has pushed to loosen costly export controls on high technology products, make NASA contractors more liable for the costs of failing to comply with their contract requirements, and prevent government laboratories from competing with private industry. She also played a key role in stopping the Financial Accounting Standards Board from adopting a rule requiring businesses to charge stock options against earnings, a move which could have seriously curtailed the growth of small firms and start-up businesses, particularly in the high technology industry. Additional Information can be found at the following locations: * Rep. Anna Eshoo's Home Page -- http://www-eshoo.house.gov/ * democracy.net Page -- http://www.democracy.net/ _______________________________________________________________________________ DEMOCRACY.NET STATISTICS In the two weeks following the original Pro-CODE cybercast hearing, over eight times as many people (804) listened to the RealAudio archive than could have fit into the room at the hearing itself! The hearing transcript continues to be extremely popular, with the testimony of Jim Barksdale (CEO, Netscape) and Louis Freeh (Director, FBI) counting as the two most popular hearing witnesses to listen to. Over a quarter of our visitors to the hearing archives stop to listen to Barksdale and Freeh's takes on the encryption debate. Whether you're a concerned citizen who can't get to Washington, a student researching the topic of privacy, or a reporter just following the debate, these archives are here for you. You can experience Government Without Walls at the March 19th hearing cybercast archive at http://www.democracy.net/. _______________________________________________________________________________ ABOUT DEMOCRACY.NET The democracy.net is a joint project of the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) and the Voters Telecommunications Watch (VTW) to explore ways of enhancing citizen participation in the democratic process via the Internet. To this end, democracy.net will host live, interactive cybercasts of Congressional Hearings and online town hall meetings with key policy makers. democracy.net is made possible through the generous support of WebActive, Public Access Networks, the Democracy Network, and DIGEX Internet. More information about the project and its sponsors can be found at http://www.democracy.net/about/ To receive democracy.net announcements automatically, please visit our signup form at http://www.democracy.net/ _____________________________________________________________________________ End update no.5 04/10/1997 =============================================================================