33 posts tagged F2C2008

The city of Burlington, Vermont is providing communication services for its residents over a new, advanced municipal fiber optic network. Burlington is a city of about 40,000 persons. The city department that builds the network, operates it, and sells communications services is called Burlington Telecom (BT).

I'm going to take a stab at confblogging this year's Freedom to Connect. Here's host David Isenberg's opening remarks (he emailed me his talk, so these notes are practically exact): I am honored to be among so many remarkable people. We have to be remarkable people, because we have a hell of a job to do.

If you use Quicktime, you can watch the event streaming live. You can also join the backchannel chat via Campfire. (To sign up for a Campfire account, use this link.

This is a rough transcript of a panel discussion of sorts moderated by Micah Sifry, cofounder of the Personal Democracy Forum. Alec Ross is a tech policy advisor to Barack Obama's campaign. Matt Stoller is a political Net-roots activist and blogger for OpenLeft. And Donna Edwards is a candidate for Congress from Maryland.

This session was a series of presentations moderated by Jim Baller, who advocates for a United States national broadband strategy. There were a number of participants. Dirk van der Woude works as program manager of Amsterdam's world-leading fiber to the home offer. John St.

Dirk van der Woude: I'm not an American, so I didn't learn how to present in public in kindergarten, so I need PowerPoint. I'll start to tell you more about why this meeting is important for the Netherlands, as well as American telecommunications and connectivity. You see, approved by Brussels.

There are LOTS of spinoffs from F2C this year -- press articles, chat logs, live-blog records, presentations on line, etc. You can find my collection of pointers here. If you have, or know about, other items that should be included, please tell me. Soon come: photos. Longer come: streams and/or movies.

My friend Steve Crandall blogs at tinglinde that F2C: Freedom to Connect, ". . . is simply the best conference out there on the overlap of networks, society and technology." Who denies that non-financial signals are meaningful? I am so proud when critical, discerning friends like my work.

This was the panel that I was speaking on, alongside Bruce Schneier and Danny O'Brien. Obviously I couldn't take notes myself, but Heath Row did an excellent job: Bruce Me Danny Thanks Heath! Although the talks were all streamed live, I'm not sure if the video is going to be archived somewhere.

Here are my opening remarks at F2C: Freedom to Connect yesterday: ----------- Welcome to F2C: Freedom to Connect I am honored to be among so many remarkable people. We have to be remarkable people, because we have a hell of a job to do. The Internet has been given to us. It is a miraculous gift, and a boon to our lives .