NEW HOME PAGE TELLS ALL ABOUT NATIONAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE

May 18, 1995 -- In an effort to help Americans better understand benefits
of the emerging National Information Infrastructure (NII), the Clinton
Administration's Information Infrastructure Task Force (IITF) today
unveiled an online resource about this interconnection of computer
networks, telecommunications services and applications that is sometimes
called the "information superhighway."

"As a one-stop electronic resource, the NII Virtual Library home page
provides a place where people can find out what an advanced information
infrastructure really means and how they can use it," Arati Prabhakar,
director of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and
Technology, said as she demonstrated the new site at today's meeting of
the IITF, which is chaired by Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown.

The NII Virtual Library home page provides any user with explanations of
the NII and how it works and provides system developers with information
on NII applications. A state-by-state listing of NII-related projects and
collections of reports and documents are fully searchable for easy
access.

The new World Wide Web site, co-sponsored by the IITF and the Council on
Competitiveness, features links to information sites developed by
universities, museums, large corporations, small businesses, government
agencies, non-profit groups and other organizations with an interest in
using the NII. It was developed by the Committee on Applications and
Technology with the support of the Office of Enterprise Integration at
NIST.

The site can be reached at http://nii.nist.gov by anyone with a properly
equipped computer running World Wide Web browsing software, such as Mosaic
or Netscape. Public access to Internet resources is available at a growing
number of public libraries, schools and other organizations across the
country.

The Clinton Administration's IITF consists of high-level representatives of
the federal agencies that play a major role in the development and
application of information technologies. Working with the private sector,
the task force is coordinating Administration efforts to facilitate
development and demonstration of applications of information technology,
formulating Administration positions on key telecommunications issues and
addressing critical information policy issues.

The Council on Competitiveness is a non-profit, non-partisan organization
of chief executives from business, higher education and organized labor
who have joined together to pursue a single overriding goal: to improve
the ability of American companies and workers to compete in world markets
while building a rising standard of living at home. The Council recently
launched its Healthcare Information Infrastructure (HII) Project, which
addresses the emerging market for NII-related healthcare products and
services.

For technical assistance when accessing the home page, contact Rick Kuhn on
(301) 975-4601 or rkuhn@nist.gov.

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