,`high confidence systems',
`human centered systems'
and `education, training and human resources'.
Digital libraries research now falls under the human-centered systems program of CIC.
The U.S. is not alone in promoting the development of information and communication
technologies. The Group of Seven2 major industrialized nations (G-7) supports the
development of a global information infrastructure (G-7 Ministerial Conference on the
Information Society, 1995a, 1995b). One of the G-7 policy statements is that the GII will provide access to culturally and linguistically diverse content and thus involves digital libraries. The European Union (EU) funds and promotes a wide range of information-related research and development under Directorate-General XIII, Telecommunications, Information Market and Exploitation of Research. Many other countries have established national information infrastructure programs and associated research and development support mechanisms.
The continued expansion of information infrastructure and the penetration of information technology into more aspects of daily activities will require basic and applied research in many disciplines.
Just as the frontiers of computing have moved from desktop to mobile computing