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Public interest groups and the Canadian information highway

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  • McDowell, Stephen D
  • Buchwald, Cheryl Cowan

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The Information Highway Advisory Council (IHAC), a committee representing commercial and non-commercial interests, was struck by Industry Canada in 1994 to provide policy advice on advanced communications infrastructure and services. Public interest groups, that is non-profit advocacy organizations not directly tied to any business or industrial interests, also tried to provide input into and responses to the work of the IHAC. The formation and activities of the Coalition for Public Information and the Alliance for a Connected Canada, are representative of public interest activities in Canada. The nature and extent of participation of these groups in the work of IHAC can be seen as a gauge of the receptivity of the government to questions and issues that were not on its agenda, and of the declining legitimacy of the institutions of telecommunications governance in Canada.

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  • McDowell, Stephen D & Buchwald, Cheryl Cowan, 1997. "Public interest groups and the Canadian information highway," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 21(8), pages 709-719, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:telpol:v:21:y:1997:i:8:p:709-719
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