CALL FOR PANELS — Due March 31, 2008

International Summit for Community Wireless Networks
 May 28-30, 2008, Washington, DC
 Send panel proposals and questions to: summit@chambana.net

Since the first National Summit for Community Wireless Networks in
2004, hundreds of community Internet and municipal broadband
initiatives have sprung up around the globe. Internet access is
increasingly important to all facets of civil society, but many
communities are being left out of this communications revolution.

September 22 is One Web Day, celebrate the changes in our world and the positive dimensions of the Internet in our lives!

http://onewebday.org

Third time's the charm! The International Summit for Community Wireless Networks is a few days away. We look forward to seeing you there.

SEO and the NPO: Grassroots.org has launched a toolkit for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for non-profits - spread the word.

Civic Garden: The notion of the Civic Garden we've been promoting locally in Chicago (as an evolution of the Minneapolis' "Walled Garden") is being taken up in Minneapolis.

A NEW OPPORTUNITY TO EXCHANGE SKILLS AMONG TELECENTERS

Telecenter Operator Exchange Program Announces Launch

July 2006. The Telecenters of the Americas Partnership (TAP) is pleased to announce the launch of the Operator Exchange Program. The program will promote the sharing of innovative models and practices by supporting relationships among telecenters throughout the Americas.

Telecenters bring information and communications technology to communities across the globe. Over the years, telecenter operators have accumulated a vast amount of specialized knowledge. However, there has been a lack of means to exchange this information with other telecenters.

I can report back from quite a succesful summit put together by our very own Sascha Meinrath of CUWiN. This was the second such summit convened by Sascha. I dutifully served as requested on two panel sessions that we gladly opened to a general discussion in short order. I spoke more from a frame of community networking than anything else, as my time is mostly spent considering these issue in Illinois context, and organizing with others in Illinois to promote community networking principles and dialogue around them. I was pleased to have others in the community networking and technology sectors present to deepen the points I was most committed to, especially the Ohio gang: Bill Callahan and Angela Stuber. As my experience at the conference was fairly narrow I'd rather open it up to the several other AFCN folk to offer their comments, and for Sascha to summarize his own summit, along with links and references to how you can partake of the proceedings after the fact….