<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:8pt"><br><div>FYI sorry for cross poting.<br>FE<br></div><div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: cu-wireless-announce-bounces@lists.cuwireless.net<br>[mailto:cu-wireless-announce-bounces@lists.cuwireless.net] On Behalf Of<br>Sascha Meinrath<br>Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 3:24 PM<br>To: cu-wireless-announce@cuwin.net<br>Subject: [CUWiN Press Release] Community Wireless Summit May 18-20,2007<br>-- Washington, DC.<br><br>Contact:<br>Sascha Meinrath<br>Executive Director<br>CUWiN Foundation<br>summit@cuwin.net<br>217-278-3933 x31<br><br>INTERNATIONAL SUMMIT TO ADDRESS FUTURE OF BROADBAND<br>-- Community Technology Leaders from Six Continents to Participate
--<br><br>Champaign-Urbana, I.L., April 18 -- The CUWiN Foundation and the Center<br>for Community Informatics (CCI) will host the International Summit for<br>Community Wireless Networks (<a target="_blank" href="http://WirelessSummit.org">http://WirelessSummit.org</a>) from May 18-20,<br>2007 at Loyola College in Columbia, Maryland.<br><br>The summit is the largest gathering of wireless network developers,<br>technology and policy experts, and community organizers working to build<br>universal, low-cost broadband networks around the world. "We are proud<br>to host an event that brings together technologists and activists<br>committed to universal access to informatics," said Marco Figueiredo,<br>CCI Director.<br><br>"The International Summit for Community Wireless Networks explores the<br>opportunities and challenges facing the growing movement to build<br>community and municipal broadband networks," said Sascha Meinrath,<br>co-founder and Executive Director of CUWiN.
"This event showcases<br>cutting-edge technologies and develops political strategies to increase<br>digital inclusion."<br><br>Since the first National Summit for Community Wireless Networks in 2004,<br>over 300 Community Internet and municipal broadband projects have sprung<br>up in the United States alone. The Summit will focus on how these<br>networks can better serve their target populations, the policies needed<br>to support broader deployment of community wireless systems, and the<br>latest technological and software innovations.<br><br>Presenters at previous summits have included FCC Commissioner Jonathan<br>Adelstein, Jim Baller of the Baller Herbst Law Group, Annie Collins of<br>Fiber for Our Future, Mark Cooper of the Consumer Federation of America,<br>Harold Feld of Media Access Project, Robert W. McChesney of Free Press,<br>Matt Rantanen of Tribal Digital Village, Greg Richardson of Civitium<br>LLC, Paul Smith of the Center for Neighborhood Technologies, Jim
Snider<br>of the New America Foundation, Dana Spiegel of NYCwireless, Esme Vos of<br>Muniwireless.com and many other luminaries.<br><br>"High-speed broadband access is the electricity of the 21st century, yet<br>many rural and poorer urban communities are being left off the grid,"<br>said Ben Scott, policy director of Free Press, the DC-based policy<br>think-tank. "The innovators and organizers at the International Summit<br>for Community Wireless Networks are blazing the trail to make broadband<br>affordable and available to everyone."<br><br>About CUWiN (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.cuwin.net">http://www.cuwin.net</a>)<br>The CUWiN Foundation is a world-renowned coalition of wireless<br>developers and community volunteers committed to providing low-cost,<br>do-it-yourself, community-controlled alternatives to contemporary<br>broadband models. CUWiN is fiscally sponsored by Grassroots.org, a<br>non-profit 501c3. CUWiN's mission is to develop
decentralized,<br>community-owned networks that foster democratic cultures and local<br>content. Through advocacy and through our commitment to open source<br>technology, CUWiN supports organic networks that grow to meet the needs<br>of their communities.<br><br>About CCI (<a target="_blank" href="http://cci.cs.loyola.edu">http://cci.cs.loyola.edu</a>)<br>The Center for Community Informatics engages Loyola College's students,<br>faculty and staff in supporting the creation and deployment of<br>informatics tools for community empowerment. CCI develops the Community<br>Telecenter Free Software Toolset; promotes awareness events for the<br>Loyola College community; offer courses in Community Informatics;<br>promotes Digital Inclusion Conferences; researches and develops<br>human-friendly technologies to facilitate inclusion in the New Society<br>of Knowledge; and, evaluates, documents and develops sustainable models<br>for Universal Access to Informatics.<br><br>#
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