From catherine at digitalaccess.org Thu May 24 10:32:30 2007 From: catherine at digitalaccess.org (Catherine Settanni) Date: Thu May 24 11:30:09 2007 Subject: [Ccan-announce] Come Celebrate Community Technology in Minneapolis! Message-ID: On June 14, 2007 Minneapolis takes another major step in the effort to ensure that a wireless Minneapolis benefits everyone in the community. City officials, US Internet executives and other leaders will launch the effort to work with neighborhood and community groups to create six Minneapolis regional (Central, Downtown, North, Northeast, South, and Southwest) portals for the citywide wireless network. This will also be an opportunity for the public to learn more about progress on construction of the wireless network, and the process for developing regional portal pages. Participants will be encouraged to give their ideas and feedback about first regional portal page that will be established for downtown Minneapolis. Wireless Minneapolis Celebration and Update 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., Thursday, June 14, 2007 Minneapolis Central Library, Doty Board Room Program & Agenda 4 - 5 p.m. ? Digital Inclusion and Community Technology efforts * Announce the Establishment of the Digital Inclusion Fund * Introduce Digital Inclusion Fund Community Advisors * Highlight several Community Technology initiatives and announce the CTEP AmeriCorps Grant 5 - 5:45 p.m. ? Wireless Minneapolis Update: * Progress on Network Build-out * Introduce the Community Portal Project * Signing-up for service (US Internet representative) 5:45 - 6:30 p.m. ? Wireless Minneapolis Open House * Questions and answers session with City and US Internet representatives This event is free and open to the public; folks are encouraged to attend the entire event, or just the portions that interest them. Stay informed about Wireless Minneapolis! To sign-up to receive regular e-mail updates from the City, visit this link: http://service.govdelivery.com/service/subscribe.html?code=MPLS_66 Catherine Settanni Wireless Minneapolis Digital Inclusion Task Force catherine@digitalaccess.org http://www.digitalaccess.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mapnp.Geeks.ORG/pipermail/ccan-announce/attachments/20070524/8fbc13a0/attachment.html