1993
                              Telluride
                           IDEAS FESTIVAL

"Tele-Community"
July 23-25
Telluride, Colorado

The Telluride InfoZone is a pilot project for broad spectrum community
development and education in rural areas, using information and
telecommunications technologies.  It is being planned as a pragmatic
answer to real issues facing this place, and as a test-bed for systems,
services, and the long range social, economic and cultural implications
of "telecommunities" in our "information society".

This summer, the Telluride Institute eighth annual Ideas Festival will
focus on "Tele-Community". On the weekend of July 23-25, the ideas
Festival will host face to face discussions and teleconferences on the
difficult issues: the politics, economics, technological, social and
cultural implications of "Tele-Community."
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(TELE-)CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, PANELS, AND ONLINE EXCHANGES:

As government and corporate interests form alliances and position
themselves to create a new National Information Infrastructure, there is
a growing movement among regional and local communities and dedicated
individuals to shape a more humane, socially serving direction for our
tele-media-ted future.  Participate in this vital conversation and help
promote an ecology of the information environment.

Technical Considerations: networks, hardware, software, standards.
Applications and Implications: political realities; cultural
uncertainties; economic opportunities; social responsibilities.
Break-out work sessions will be held on critical public policy and
access issues.  Featured presentations include:

Information Economics 101: The pay-per society
Civic Networking: From information highways to home-town
                  tele-communities.
Science and the nets: The human Genome Project (information mapping)
Virtual Publishing: The medium is changing; what is the message?
Native Nets: Talking drums on-line
Colorado Initiatives: Setting the agenda

DEMONSTRATIONS AND WORKSHOPS

Join us in initiating the Telluride InfoZone, providing local access
Internet connection to the world, and broadband community net services.
Sample developing technologies and explore some of the many on-line
applications and communities.

SPECIAL EVENTS

    "Tele/Comm/Unity" - A tele-communication arts project: hosting
interactive, multi-media connections with artists, universities and
cultural centers around the world - featuring the Electronic Cafe
International.

   Skyfield - Picnic on the West Meadows, site of the proposed new town
of Skyfield, a ground-breaking, ecologically planned, tele-community.
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   The Ideas Festival is a program of the Telluride Institute, supported
in part by Colorado Advanced Technology Institute & Colorado Supernet;
The Colorado Trust; Apple Computers, Inc.; and the Town of Telluride,
Commission on Arts and Special Events.

  The Telluride Institute is a six year old non-profit corporation with
501(c)(3) tax exempt status, active locally, regionally and
internationally in natural resources, arts and culture, and research.
Amongst the purposes stated in its Articles of Incorporation is promotion
of *the understanding of the information revolution and its adaptation to
the improvement of human welfare and culture*. The InfoZone concept is
the result of several years' study as to how best transform this purpose
into action.
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For Program Information contact: Telluride Institute, PO Box 1770,
Telluride, CO  81435  (303) 728-4402   Email tellinst@csn.org
Travel arrangements : Telluride Travel Company 800-833-8616
Lodging: Telluride Central Reservations: 800-525-3455
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