Editing National Information Infrastructure

{{Short description|1991 USA telecommunications policy}}

The '''National Information Infrastructure''' ('''NII''') was the product of the [[High Performance Computing Act of 1991]]. It was a [[telecommunications]] policy [[buzzword]], which was popularized during the [[Clinton Administration]] under the leadership of Vice-President [[Al Gore]].<ref>[http://cpsr.org/prevsite/publications/newsletters/old/1990s/Summer1993.txt/ Summer1993.txt]</ref>

It proposed to build [[communications network]]s, interactive services, interoperable [[computer hardware]] and [[software]], computers, databases, and [[consumer electronics]] in order to put vast amounts of [[information]] available to both public and private sectors.<ref>{{Cite web |title=national information infrastructure (NII) - Glossary {{!}} CSRC |url=https://csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/national_information_infrastructure}}</ref> NII was to have included more than just the physical facilities (more than the cameras, scanners, keyboards, telephones, fax machines, computers, switches, compact disks, [[video]] and audio tape, [[Electrical cable|cable]], wire, satellites, [[optical fiber]] [[transmission (telecommunications)|transmission]] lines, [[microwave]] nets, switches, televisions, monitors, and printers) used to transmit, store, process, and display voice, [[data]], and images; it was also to encompass a wide range of interactive functions, [[User (telecommunications)|user]]-tailored services, and [[multimedia]] databases that were interconnected in a technology-neutral manner that will favor no one industry over any other.<ref>[http://www.its.bldrdoc.gov/fs-1037/fs-1037c.htm National Information Infrastructure (NII)]</ref>

==See also==
*[[Al Gore and information technology]]
*[[High Performance Computing Act of 1991]]
*[[Information superhighway]]
*[[History of the Internet]]
*[[NII Awards]]

==References==
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*Chapman, Gary and Marc Rotenberg. "[http://www.cpsr.org/prevsite/publications/newsletters/old/1990s/Summer1993.txt The National Information Infrastructure: A Public Interest Opportunity]." Summer, 1993.
*[[Al Gore|Gore, Al]]. [http://www.ibiblio.org/nii/goremarks.html Remarks on the National Information Infrastructure by Vice President Al Gore at the National Press club, December 21, 1993].

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