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Engaging the Public to Promote Internet Access. Christopher Mitchell Director, Telecommunications as Commons Initiative Institute for Local Self-Reliance March 25, 2014 @ communitynets www.MuniNetworks.org. MuniNetworks.org/ communitymap. Institute for Local Self-Reliance. Formed in 1974
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Engaging the Publicto Promote Internet Access Christopher Mitchell Director, Telecommunications as Commons Initiative Institute for Local Self-Reliance March 25, 2014 @communitynets www.MuniNetworks.org
Institute for Local Self-Reliance • Formed in 1974 • Focuses • Community Banking • Decentralized Energy • Main Street Businesses • Recycling – Waste to Wealth • Telecommunications as Commons Initiative • MuniNetworks.org
The Opposition • Longmont Background
Lafayette, Louisiana • Background • LUS Fiber Ad • Slick Sam
Talking Tech • Technical Concepts and Humor – It is possible!
Google Fiber • Provo Ad • Google Fiber Approach – Localism!
Thank you Christopher Mitchell • christopher@newrules.org • MuniNetworks.org • @communitynets Sign up for a once-per-week e-mail digest of Community Network News at MuniNetworks.org