INCOME We expect that many of the costs for the demonstration project will be shared by interested agencies. For example, Carleton University has generously offered the use of its unix computing network as the National Capital FreeNet platform for the first two years of the demonstration project, considerably reducing startup equipment costs. Carleton has also sustained the cost of the FreePort software and its installation. Members of the organizing committee have shared the costs to date of NCF incorporation, office, travel and meeting expenses. We estimate these dollar and in-kind donations will total about $30,000 in the 1992-3 year, and about $20,000 in the 1993-4 year of the demonstration project. It is likely that remaining funds needed to sustain the National Capital FreeNet will be solicited from a variety of government and community sources. Because a successful FreeNet can greatly enhance attempts by all levels of government to become more accessible and responsive to their constituents, it is in their interest to aid in development and adoption of the model through the NCF demonstration project. We thus plan to approach Federal, Provincial and local government agencies for partial funding of the demonstration project. Because a widely-used FreeNet can significantly reduce the duplication and mailing costs normally incurred in reaching their constituents, it is to the advantage of community organizations to share some of the costs of the medium. We thus plan to approach community organizations for voluntary donations proportional to the amount of information they provide. Finally, registered NCF participants and other supportive citizens may also be asked for voluntary contributions. How much? If the NCF can obtain an average of only $10 per subscriber per year, then the 20,000 subscribers projected by the end of the demonstration project would be able to contribute over 60% of the budgeted costs for the first post- demonstration year of operation (1995-6). Funding strategies and decisions will, of course, be made by the National Capital FreeNet Board of Directors in consultation with the Ways and Means Committee.