US National Commission on Library and Information Service

With the great success of the First Pacific Conference on New Information Technology, organized by Dr. Chen solely with her own fund, in 1987, the US National Commission on Library and Information Service (NCLIS) has been a major supporter of this series of conferences on new information technology (NIT) for both developing and developed countries. These include:

1989 - The Second Pacific Conference on New Information Technology (Singapore)
1990 - NIT '90: 3rd International Conference on New Information Technology (Gudalajara, Mexico)
1991 - NIT '91: 4th International Conference on New Information Technology (Budapest)
1992 - NIT '92: 5th International Conference on New Information Technology (Hong Kong)
1993 - NIT '93: 6th International Conference on New Information Technology (Puerto Rico)
1994 - NIT '94: 7th International Conference on New Information Technology (Alexandria, VA)
1995 - NIT '95: 8th International Conference on New Information Technology (Riga, Latvia)

Proceedings of these conferences have been published by MicroUse Information, Inc., except that of NIT '94, which was published by Ablex as a full-length book entitled Planning Global Information Infrastructure. This is a ground-breaking book on GII.

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