Measurements for Sucess: 3 Goals

[John Gelles <jjgelles@xxxxxxxx>]

	Three goals are written below following an asterisk (*).
	Measurements of success related to each follow them.


     * Communications systems (like the internet) shall continue
       to serve educational and civic needs on a priority basis,
       apart from profit-seeking enterprise.

	SUCCESS IF:

	a. Access to education, information and recreation on
	   wide area digital networks remains affordable for
	   minimum wage earning families and free to the very
	   poor.

	b. The time of vast audiences for mass digital network
	   media is not captured by commercial interests for
	   lack of competing non-commercial sources serving
	   the public interest and, in particular, offering
	   the education without which their cannot be
	   "government of the people, by the people and for
	   the people".



     * Human political, economic and environmental rights shall
       be championed to end poverty, pollution and  violence due
       to neglect.

	SUCCESS IF:

	Poverty, pollution and violence steadily decline at
	significant rates.

 	

     * National and worldwide goals for ordinary people, (expressed
       in terms of desired results more than preferred means,)
       shall offer a foundation for policy. Ordinary people shall
       have opportunity to author, edit and approve such goals by
       majority vote.

	SUCCESS IF:

	This cyberspace project and others like it stay alive
	and produce measurable results toward their stated goals.

	
	John Gelles