Minneapolis launches public education sessions for its wireless net
Informational meetings begin next week to update Minneapolis neighborhoods on the progress of the city’s city-wide wireless network and to train citizens to create the regional portal pages.As part of its 10-year contract with the city of Minneapolis to build and manage the city-wide wireless network, the service proficer US Internet agreed to a set of negotiated community benefits that include the creation of neighborhood and community portal pages for the network.
Those meetings, timed for approximately the same time as the neighborhoods are to come online, are scheduled to begin next week. Minneapolis residents who are unable to attend the meetings in their communities can attend others scheduled through the summer and fall.
Click here for the meeting schedule.
The training is part of a $500,000 digital inclusion program the city negotiated with USI that will also provide low-cost access and inexpensive hardware to qualified families. According to the city’s website, USI will also “direct a minimum of five percent of the network’s net profits to a digital inclusion fund for ongoing digital inclusion efforts. In total, it is expected that about $11 million will go into the digital inclusion fund over the 10-year term of the contract. ”
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