From: National Summit for Community Wireless Networks
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Subject: National Summit for Community Wireless Networks, Aug 20-22
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Please join us for an event pivotal to the future of community
networking and progressive spectrum policy:
THE 2004 NATIONAL SUMMIT FOR COMMUNITY WIRELESS NETWORKS
August 20-22, 2004 @ the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Key topics of discussion include:
* Wireless broadband access as a public utility
* Programming, installing, and implementing community
wireless
networks
* Low-cost, high speed broadband for underserved communities
* Cutting edge technologies for independent, community media
* Breakthrough opportunities for local government, local
educators
* Unlicensed spectrum as an open access, public media system
* Critical policy debates going on NOW in Washington
*** http://communitywirelesssummit.org/ ***
Do community wireless networks really serve the populations they ought
to reach, and if not, what needs to be done? What is the future of the
FCC's unlicensed spectrum policies that enable the innovations behind
community wireless technologies? Can dozens of independently-operating
community wireless initiatives join together to create a positive
future for the movement?
On August 20-22, 2004, the Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network,
Free Press, and Prairienet Community Network will host the 2004
National Summit for Community Wireless Networks. It will be the largest
community wireless networking event to date and will bring technology
and policy leaders, decision-makers, researchers, and other
participants in wireless networking and community networking
initiatives together for the express purpose of discussing policy
issues and practical solutions to problems facing community wireless
networks.
Researchers and developers will present breakthrough technologies for
public service broadband applications. In addition to discussing
technological challenges and best-practices models, the event will
facilitate the critical alliance of local technologists and national
policy advocates. These meetings will build strategic plans for
expanding the deployment of community wireless networks and for
ensuring that the federal government regulates spectrum to increase
unlicensed access.
Confirmed speakers include representatives from:
* New America Foundation
* Media Access Project
* Free Press
* Austin Wireless City Project
* Prometheus Radio Project
* Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network
Other participants include individuals affiliated with the following
organizations:
* Association for Community Networking
* BARWN
* BAWUG
* Center for Neighborhood Technology
* Chi-Fi
* Cornell College (IA)
* National Center for Supercomputing Applications
* NoCatNet
* NPOTechs
* NYC Wireless
* Personal Telco
* Prairienet Community Network
* Roving Planet, Inc.
* Seattle Wireless
* University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
* University of Wisconsin - Madison
Be sure to register at http://communitywirelesssummit.org/register
before August 1, 2004 to take advantage of the lowest registration
rates! For additional information, please visit
http://communitywirelesssummit.org/
If you or your organization would like more information or would like
to make a financial contribution to support the Summit, please e-mail
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Michael D. Brunelle, MSLIS
Community Technology Outreach Coordinator
Prairienet Community Network
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
510 East Daniel Street, Champaign, IL 61820
phone 217-718-4549, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
