[Ccan-announce] Come Celebrate Community Technology in Minneapolis!

[Catherine Settanni]

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 at digitalaccess.org
http://www.digitalaccess.org




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