The New America Foundation is holding an event entitled “Bridging the Digital Divide – Is Community Wireless the Answer” on Tuesday, 1 February 2011, from 12:15 pm to 1:45 pm at 1899 L St NW, Suite 400, Washington DC 20036.
Description of topics to be covered:
Communications technologies have continued to evolve and now increasingly provide opportunities for deploying low-cost broadband. However, conventional commercial business models for providing broadband often create bottlenecks to spreading connectivity. Over the past five years, successful community and municipal wireless networks have been overlooked and often dismissed, yet they hold tremendous promise for improving our nation’s approach to building communications infrastructure, empowering local communities and addressing the digital divide. This event will launch an important report that reviews community and municipal wireless networks across the United States and Europe.
Introduction
Sascha Meinrath
Director, Open Technology Initiative
New America Foundation
Speakers
Dr. Laura Forlano
Visiting Fellow, Information Society Project
Yale Law School
Benjamin Lennett
Senior Policy Analyst, Open Technology Initiative
New America Foundation
Dr. Gwen Shaffer
Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
University of California, Irvine
Aaron Kaplan
Funkfeuer, Austria
Socrates Panoussiou
Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network
Dr. Alison Powell
Fellow, Media and Communications
London School of Economics
Moderator
Tom Glaisyer
Knight Media Policy Fellow, Open Technology Initiative
New America Foundation
To RSVP for the event, click on the red button or go to the event page:
http://www.newamerica.net/events/2011/bridging_the_digital_divide
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