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THE GLOBAL SCHOOLHOUSE PAVILION THE REINVENTING GOVERNMENT PAVILION
The central theme pavilions
The Global Schoolhouse allows children What is the role of government in an
around the world to learn from each other, are just the jumping-off point. information age? The Reinventing
to solve problems, and to communicate Government Pavilion shows inno-
with world leaders. Born in 1993, the The Internet 1996 World vative ways to make government
Global Schoolhouse started with a series Exposition is a decentralized more responsive and more efficient.
of Internet videoconferences on the envi- Visit the Congressional Memory
ronment between children in England, activity and the central Project and use advanced speech
Virginia, Tennessee, and California. The recognition technology to hear what
pavilions provide the entrance
children did original research on the envi- you think was important in the U.S.
ronment in their community, then briefed into a distributed fair. Congress. You can issue searches like:
senior U.S. and U.K. government officials “I want to hear all Democrats from
and each other on their findings. Minnesota who spoke about the bud-
get.” Other features of this pavilion
participation by the Kennedy Center
include on-line government hearings,
for the Performing Arts. They will kick
“A crusade to a Government Information Locator
off the 1996 program with a week-long
transform the Internet International Showcase for the Perform- Service (GILS), and other examples
computer network into a ing Arts. Following that, a weekly Young of government on-line.
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