---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 13:11:24 -0400 From: Barbara Poore <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] Subject: Administration support for NSDI ---- Clinton Administration Initiatives to Foster the NSDI On September 2 at the Brookings Insitution in Washington , D.C. Vice President Gore called for stronger efforts nationwide to enhance the livability and economic competitiveness of American communities. The Vice President said the Administration will expand its support for the use of geographic information systems technologies and encourage increased public access and sharing of geographic data to put "more control, more information, more decision-making power into the hands of families, communities, and regions¯to give them all the freedom and flexibility they need to reclaim their own unique place in the world, " Full text of the Vice President's speech http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/1998/9/3/3.text.1 White House Press Release http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/1998/9/3/4.text.1 FGDC Press Release http://www.fgdc.gov/publications/documents/prs/pr-090398.html Community Federal Information Partnership http://www.fgdc.gov/nsdi/docs/comfedip.html Community Demonstration Projects http://www.fgdc.gov/nsdi/docs/cdp.html