Mike Eisenberg Mike Eisenberg discussed the need for this summit, and he pointed out that the World Wide Web is increasing at a large rate. He showed graphs from a recent survey of UW graduates, which point out that finding and evaluating information is an important skill to all of them.
Information technology is defined as information, computers, communications, and software.
English is the predominant language on the web, and this is probably because U.S. industries have led in technology and creation of content. There are more freedom of speech issues developing, but the most daunting thing about the Internet right now is the rate of change. More web pages are created daily, and more people are getting online. This increases the need for universal access, because more and more resources which everyone should have access to are provided electronically. This is difficult to know because of the rate of change.