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To: May Tran who wrote (6181)	12/2/1998 7:24:00 PM
From: allen v.w.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 40688

David Beier, a senior aide to Vice President Al Gore, has been named to succeed Ira Magaziner as head of the White House's interagency task force on electronic commerce. Beier, the head domestic policy adviser to Gore and a former official with Genentech Inc. (NYSE:GNE), a San Francisco biotech company, will oversee many of the e-commerce programs announced by Gore and President Bill Clinton during a ceremony at the White House Monday. Those initiatives, unveiled in the latest e-commerce report from Magaziner, include spurring technology companies to protect consumer Internet users' privacy, ensuring continued private-sector control of the domain name allocation system, encouraging private investment in high-speed networks, and helping small businesses get online, White House officials said. Beier takes the e-commerce reins from Magaziner, who is stepping down as Clinton's head technology adviser this month after six years with the administration. 'By the year 2010, we can triple the number of people who can support their families because they can reach world markets through the Internet.' -- Al Gore While Magaziner performed a variety of different jobs for the Clinton administration during his tenure, Beier will have some help from Elliot Maxwell, named last month as head Internet adviser to the Commerce Department. Also, Sally Katzen, deputy director of the National Economic Council, will serve as vice chairperson of the e-commerce task force, White House officials said. Clinton and Gore, in statements on Magaziner's latest report, underscored the importance of e-commerce to the global economy, and pledged to continue a hands-off approach to regulation. "By the year 2010, we can triple the number of people who can support their families because they can reach world markets through the Internet," Gore said during Monday's ceremony. "And these developments in turn will drive the emergence of brand new phenomena just as exciting as e-commerce that we can't even imagine today." 'Do no harm' "I think we have to clearly commit ourselves to making the most of what is clearly the engine of tomorrow's economy: technology," Clinton said during the event. "We have to make ourselves absolutely committed to the proposition that we will first do no harm. We will do nothing that undermines the capacity of emerging technologies to lift the lives of ordinary Americans and, insofar as we can, we will help to create an environment which will enhance the likelihood of success."