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Here is Tony Scott's article about the Info port.  Apparently not all
sites got this posting.   -- Jane Fraser


> From: tscott@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Tony Scott)
> Subject: columbus as an info-port
> Message-ID: <1992Aug7.165400.1047@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
> Followup-To: oh.cast
> Summary: what are the implications?
> Keywords: infoport, electronic transfer of funds, collaboration
> Sender: tony scott, art ed/accad, osu
> Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1992 16:54:00 GMT
> Expires: Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT [aha! is this what caused
> the problem?  Jane]
> Lines: 22
> 
> The Columbus dispatch carried an article yesterday (Thurs 6th August)
> concerning the United Nations' designation of Columbus as one
> of 16 info-ports world wide (2nd place to be designated after
> Cartagena).  The paper made much of the likely economic benefits for
> Ohio of this designation of Columbus as the location of an approved
> electronic trading center.
> 
> I'm a little confused.  Why does an -electronic- trading center
>  need a location?  The UN approval/designation process reminds
>  me of waveband allocation for radio stations - is there still a
>  'bandwidth' issue in digital data transfer?  Do all the transactions
>  come under the Ohio business Code?  What role did Ohio's -geographic-
>  location as the capital of 'the heartland of America' have to play?
>  And what role is OSU going to play in all of this?
> (And one for Rohan: who "owns" the infoport 'licence'?)
> 
> Tony Scott, Art Education  Advanced Computing Center for
> 	    the Arts & Design, The Ohio State University
> 
> (scott+@osu.edu)