The Working Group will study means for enhancing communications among all physicists and will pay particular attention to the means for tying scientists together into networks of local and global communities. Because of the continuing importance of the traditional print literature, the Working Group will seek means to improve the availability of physics journals in all countries were access is restricted. The Working Group will make recommendations on electronic networks for communications, access to scientific information and research transactions, electronic publishing, bulletin boards, special computing facilities and technologies suitable for use in developing countries (where the power and communication grids are inadequate or non-existent). The Working Group will seek to exploit existing national and international programs currently underway in Eastern and Central Europe, the Baltic states and the Newly Independent States of the Former Soviet Union by either extending their reach or by supplementing them with other resources. It will especially seek to extend such programs into the southern tier of developing nations. The report and activities of this Working Group will form the basis for a world-wide conference of scientists, government representatives and communication experts to promote access to electronic networks in support of science. The Working Group will further assist and advise UNESCO on the access and use of electronic networks (Budget estimate for 1994-95 US$ 40 000).