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Some of our attendees are blogging the conference: David W: http://www.johotheblog.com Photos from the conference are at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/akma/tags/f2c09/ (AKMA) http://www.flickr.com/photos/docsearls/sets/72157616205843715/ (Doc Searls) We will be reviewing the speaker presentations and video streams to see if we can post that shortly. Conference Notes from Philip M. Neches From: Philip M Neches Subject: F2C Conference, part 1 …
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F2C speaker/moderator Geoff Daily has an informative and exciting article NTIA/RUS/FCC To Public On Broadband Stimulus: “Help Us Help You” in App-Rising.com. He attended a meeting with several government agencies to talk about the future of broadband in America. The joint NTIA/RUS/FCC meeting yesterday was a historic moment for our country: it marks the moment …
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F2C speaker Sascha Meinrath gave a Keynote talk at the recently-held eComm conference. From the transcript on the Emerging Communications (eComm) Blog: Unfortunately, media creation and the documentation and telling of our stories without the information dissemination component are entirely impotent. When Malcolm Matson asked the question, “Who will control local connectivity,” he exposed the …
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F2C speaker Dirk van der Woude, program manager of the municipal broadband policy of Amsterdam, got great news yesterday! The Dutch Trade Minister called upon all Dutch municipalities to follow Amsterdam’s example to co-invest in the roll out out of open fiber networks. Dirk will tell us more at this exciting event. Please join us!
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Friends and Colleagues, Announcing . . . (drum roll) . . . More high-powered speakers for F2C: Freedom to Connect March 30 & 31, Washington DC. (Register now: Price goes up February 28!) The speakers announced below join already-announced speakers such as the CIO of San Francisco, the CTO of Seattle, the Chief Technologist of …
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F2C speakers Sharon Gillett and Joanne Hovis are guests on “The Communicators,” a C-Span program. From this program‘s description: Sharon Gillet, Commissioner of the Massachusetts Dept. of Telecommunications & Cable, and Joanne Hovis, Nat’l Assn. Of Telecommunications Officers & Advisors, Board Member give their perspectives on the current provisions for broadband included in the House …
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Freedom-to-Connect partner and speaker Esme Vos has a post on MuniWireless called Find out if your ISP is a bad ISP with Glasnost in which she asks if your ISP is “playing funny games” with your Internet connection. She urges inquiry: Simply go to Glasnost (appropriate name as it refers to a period in the …
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F2C speaker Sascha Meinrath and The New America Foundation is in the news again with a report entitled Building a 21st Century Broadband Superhighway: A Concrete Build-out Plan to Bring High-Speed Fiber to Every Community. In this report, the authors describe a fundamental commitment to building an open and accessible high-speed links, allowing a multitude …
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Lee S. Dryburgh interviewed F2C Speaker Sascha Meinrath on Spectrum 2.0, Battling the Incumbents and Future Telecom Networks. The audio interview is downloadable, and the transcript is available. Well into the interview, Dryburgh asks: What do you see as the future of telecommunications infrastructure? What will it look like and how will we get from …
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