IX. Government Policy (March 11)

Sociology 4J3: Sociology of Cyberspace

Information Highway Advisory Council (Industry Canada), The Challenge of the Information Highway: Final Report of the Information Highway Advisory Council. Minister of Supply and Services Canada, 1995. Web / Gopher / FTP
Information Highway Advisory Council (Industry Canada), Building the Information Highway: Moving Canada into the 21st Century. Minister of Supply and Services Canada, 1996. Web
Regulation and Censorship
1. Leslie Regan Shade, "Is There Free Speech on the Net? Censorship in the Global Information Infrastructure", Chapter 1 in Rob Shields (eds.),Cultures of the Internet: Virtual Spaces, Real Histories, Living Bodies. Sage Publications. 1996.
2. Robert W. McChesney, "The Global Struggle for Democratic Communication", Monthly Review, Vol. 48, No. 3, July-August, 1996, pp. 1-20.

GOVERNMENT RESOURCES ON THE NET

Canadian Federal Government
Index to Provincial Governments in Canada
Index to Municipal and Local Governments in Canada
Examples of Local Government Uses of the Internet
Electronic Frontier of Canada "Electronic Frontier Canada (EFC) was founded to ensure that the principles embodied in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms are protected as new computing, communications, and information technologies are introduced into Canadian society."