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Each Internet Town Hall will focus on a specific issue through archived materials to guide discussion using technology like email groups and live broadcasts. Town Halls will bring world leaders online to discuss issues and related collaborative activities and materials will remain available after live events end. Already, Town Halls are planned around the 1996 US presidential election, an internet conference, and a year-end holiday celebration.

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Each Internet Town Hall will focus on a specific issue through archived materials to guide discussion using technology like email groups and live broadcasts. Town Halls will bring world leaders online to discuss issues and related collaborative activities and materials will remain available after live events end. Already, Town Halls are planned around the 1996 US presidential election, an internet conference, and a year-end holiday celebration.

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Each Internet Town Hall will have as a goal are taking advantage of the potential of

bringing a sustained focus on a certain issue. the Internet. Listen to live radio broad-
Rather than being a one-hour TV special, the casts from England, search through the
Internet Town Hall will last much longer. archives of the National Press Club, and
Each Internet Town Hall starts with an listen to poets like Robert Frost and T.S.
FOOD AND MARKETS PAVILION
archive of supporting materials to focus Eliot read their own work. Food is the window to culture. Visit Thailand’s
discussion. Technology ranging from largest market and download recipes for
curry. But, at the same time you can learn
about Thai culture, Thai religion, and even
“ On-line Internet Expo visit with the market vendors. The Food
Will Promote Cyberspace to and Markets Pavilion features entries
WORLD FESTIVALS PAVILION from the markets of Kazakhstan, India,
the Whole Wired World.”
and Thailand, plus visits to herb farms
— Wall Street Journal, March 14, 1995 — Everybody likes a party! The World and apple orchards in the U.S. Visit the
Festivals Pavilion features the holidays OpenAir-Market Net and learn about
and celebrations of the world. Visit Calcutta markets all over the world.
e-mail discussion groups to live multicast and take part in the Durga Puja. Go to the
sessions will be used to bring world lead- North Pole on-line and talk to Santa Claus,
ers onto the Internet. At the conclusion of download digital christmas trees (and dec-
the live event, the data produced to support orations!), and listen to the elves complain.
discussion on that issue stays around, as do Throughout the year, groups from around
mailing lists and other collaborative activities. the world will be documenting their cele- WORLD EXPOSITIONS PAVILION
Internet Town Halls are already being brations. Chinese New Year, Bloomsday,
and the German Oktoberfest are just a Learn about the history of world exposi-
planned around the U.S. presidential
few that will go on-line in 1996. tions in this pavilion, which featuring pic-
elections, INET 96, and a year-end
holiday celebration. More details will tures and postcards from the world’s
be released as the fair progresses. fairs of the last century. Learn about how
electricity was born in Paris and grew up
“ With great interest in Chicago in 1893. Read about the won-
and satisfaction, I have derful Crystal Palace of 1851 or Lee
learnt about the Internet DeForest’s wireless tower (and car) at
1996 World Exposition. the 1904 St. Louis fair. The World
Expositions Pavilion features EXPO 2000,
THE FUTURE OF MEDIA PAVILION I am confident that this
world’s fair for the next millenium. You can
will be one of the global help set the agenda for the next “real”
The Internet is a new medium. What
does it mean to be a cyberstation? The events in our World.” world’s fair in Hannover, Germany!
Future of Media Pavilion presents some — Asakar Akayev, President of Kyrghyzstan— Join the discussion and see your ideas
of the most innovative ways that people become real in the year 2000.

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