IP: Enhanced DTV in the Public Interest

[David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> From:                  Steven Clift <clift () PUBLICUS NET>
> Subject:               [DW] Enhanced DTV in the Public Interest
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> Enhanced Digital Television in the Public Interest
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> I am creating a special low volume e-mail announcement list to gather
> those interested in the concept of broadcasting essential public
> service information (government and community information) via the
> side capacity of digital television.
>
> To subscribe, send a message to:
>
>      DO-eDTV-subscribe () egroups com
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> Digital television is essentially the universal one-way Internet. What
> ones and zeros do we want available to everyone?  By broadcasting the
> "best of" the most essential public interest Internet content through
> DTV's "ancillary and supplementary services" a significant part of
> content-oriented digital divide can be closed. Broadcast web pages might
> include weather alerts, school lunch menus, snow emergency warnings,
> missing children reports, crime alerts, city, neighborhood, and other
> community event announcements, etc.. The key is to create a trusted
> structure and system for community- level content aggregation and
> syndication using widely accepted open standards and application along
> with guaranteed access to some of the side capacity of DTV stations.  It
> can be done! 
>
> For more on this concept read my new condensed "Public Internet"
> concept overview <http://www.publicus.net/pi/> (and related links) and
> my earlier Community Digital Broadcasting presentation to the Advisory
> Committee on Public Interest Obligations of Digital Television
> Broadcasters <http://www.publicus.net/cis/>.
>
> Below is the official short description of the announcement list.  I
> essentially want to find who is interested in this idea and try to
> prompt some activity before the opportunity to influence standards and
> applications in this arena are lost (there is no question in my mind
> that entertainment web content will be broadcast
> <http://www.iblast.com>, but I am afraid that public services will be
> closed out due to their own inaction).  I know of no entity that is
> taking charge of the technical/application issues in this area - if
> you do, please let me know <clift () publicus net>.
>
> Steven Clift, http://www.publicus.net
> Democracies Online
> http://www.e-democracy.org/do
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> Enhanced Digital Television - Democracies Online
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> A low volume e-mail announcement list on the development and use of
> enhanced Digital Television for dissemination of public service
> information.
>
> This list is a Democracies Online <http://www.e-democracy.org/do>
> service. Review Steven Clift's "Community Digital Broadcasting"
> <http://www.publicus.net/cis/> on digital broadcasting of essential
> community and public service information.
>
> To subscribe, send a message to:
>
>    DO-eDTV-subscribe () egroups com
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