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[CUWiN Press Release] Community Wireless Summit May 18-20,2007
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Washington, DC.
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Sascha Meinrath
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INTERNATIONAL SUMMIT TO ADDRESS FUTURE OF BROADBAND
-- Community
Technology Leaders from Six Continents to Participate
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Champaign-Urbana, I.L., April 18 -- The CUWiN Foundation and the
Center
for Community Informatics (CCI) will host the International Summit
for
Community Wireless Networks (
http://WirelessSummit.org) from May 18-20,
2007 at Loyola
College in Columbia, Maryland.
The summit is the largest gathering of
wireless network developers,
technology and policy experts, and community
organizers working to build
universal, low-cost broadband networks around
the world. "We are proud
to host an event that brings together
technologists and activists
committed to universal access to informatics,"
said Marco Figueiredo,
CCI Director.
"The International Summit for
Community Wireless Networks explores the
opportunities and challenges
facing the growing movement to build
community and municipal broadband
networks," said Sascha Meinrath,
co-founder and Executive Director of
CUWiN. "This event showcases
cutting-edge technologies and develops
political strategies to increase
digital inclusion."
Since the first
National Summit for Community Wireless Networks in 2004,
over 300 Community
Internet and municipal broadband projects have sprung
up in the United
States alone. The Summit will focus on how these
networks can better serve
their target populations, the policies needed
to support broader deployment
of community wireless systems, and the
latest technological and software
innovations.
Presenters at previous summits have included FCC
Commissioner Jonathan
Adelstein, Jim Baller of the Baller Herbst Law Group,
Annie Collins of
Fiber for Our Future, Mark Cooper of the Consumer
Federation of America,
Harold Feld of Media Access Project, Robert W.
McChesney of Free Press,
Matt Rantanen of Tribal Digital Village, Greg
Richardson of Civitium
LLC, Paul Smith of the Center for Neighborhood
Technologies, Jim Snider
of the New America Foundation, Dana Spiegel of
NYCwireless, Esme Vos of
Muniwireless.com and many other
luminaries.
"High-speed broadband access is the electricity of the 21st
century, yet
many rural and poorer urban communities are being left off the
grid,"
said Ben Scott, policy director of Free Press, the DC-based
policy
think-tank. "The innovators and organizers at the International
Summit
for Community Wireless Networks are blazing the trail to make
broadband
affordable and available to everyone."
About CUWiN (
http://www.cuwin.net)
The
CUWiN Foundation is a world-renowned coalition of wireless
developers and
community volunteers committed to providing low-cost,
do-it-yourself,
community-controlled alternatives to contemporary
broadband models. CUWiN
is fiscally sponsored by Grassroots.org, a
non-profit
501c3. CUWiN's mission is to develop
decentralized,
community-owned networks that foster democratic cultures and
local
content. Through advocacy and through our commitment to open
source
technology, CUWiN supports organic networks that grow to meet the
needs
of their communities.
About CCI (
http://cci.cs.loyola.edu)
The Center for Community
Informatics engages Loyola College's students,
faculty and staff in
supporting the creation and deployment of
informatics tools for community
empowerment. CCI develops the Community
Telecenter Free Software
Toolset; promotes awareness events for the
Loyola College community; offer
courses in Community Informatics;
promotes Digital Inclusion Conferences;
researches and develops
human-friendly technologies to facilitate inclusion
in the New Society
of Knowledge; and, evaluates, documents and develops
sustainable models
for Universal Access to Informatics.
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