Info Highway chief seeks freenet input By Bruce MacDonald Realtime Online OTTAWA (2057 hr., Aug. 15/94) - The head of Canada's Information Highway Advisory Council asked freenet organizers for advice in opening up the country's Information Highway. "I urge you to make your voices heard," David Johnston told a dinner gathering at the Canadian Community Networks Conference. "Canada needs your enthusiasm, your understanding of the issues, your expertise and your participation to make the Information Highway a reality and ensure that it benefits all Canadians," Johnston said. The former McGill University president told his audience he felt like the late American statesman Dean Acheson who called his book on the founding of the United Nations, "Present at the Creation." "I predict that one day, when the history of the creation of the Information Highway in Canada is written, this meeting will have a prominent place in the record," he said. Johnston's advisory council was established by the federal government last winter and is made up of Canadians from all backgrounds and all regions of the country. Since May the council has met three times and meets again August 19 on its way to draft up recommendations to the federal government on a national strategy for the Information Highway. Minutes of each meeting are posted on the National Capital Freenet and are available by gopher at debra.dgbt.doc.ca, port 70 and at the same address by FTP, in /pub/isc. -- Realtime Online - Professional Conference Reporting Team Rosaleen Dickson, Ottawa ac174@freenet.carleton.ca. Pierre Bourque, Michel Careau, Shady Kanfi, Charles King, Andrea Kujala, Jules Lafrance, Bruce MacDonald, Robt Rattey, Natalie Roth, Michael Silvestrini, Stephen Toy.