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Digital Dialogue</strong></small></big></big>
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<strong><i>Community
Broadband as a Path to Thriving Local Economies and Neighborhood
Development</i><br>
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<big><strong>Tomorrow! Wednesday, <span style="display:inline;font-size:inherit;padding:0pt"><span style="display:inline;font-size:inherit;padding:0pt"><span style="display:inline;font-size:inherit;padding:0pt"><span style="display:inline;font-size:inherit;padding:0pt"><span style="display:inline;font-size:inherit;padding:0pt"><span style="display:inline;font-size:inherit;padding:0pt"><span style="display:inline;font-size:inherit;padding:0pt"><span style="display:inline;font-size:inherit;padding:0pt"><span style="display:inline;font-size:inherit;padding:0pt"><span style="display:inline;font-size:inherit;padding:0pt">October</span>
24th</span></span></span>:</span></span></span></span></span></span>
Digital Dialogue
<span style="display:inline;font-size:inherit;padding:0pt"><span style="display:inline;font-size:inherit;padding:0pt">at 10am</span></span>
PST / <span style="display:inline;font-size:inherit;padding:0pt"><span style="display:inline;font-size:inherit;padding:0pt">1pm</span></span>
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<span style="display:inline;font-size:inherit;padding:0pt"><span style="display:inline;font-size:inherit;padding:0pt">In the last
several years local communities, governments, non-profit organizations
and neighborhood residents from across the U.S. have successfully
launched community broadband initiatives. 54 U.S. cities own citywide
fiber networks and another 79 own citywide cable networks. These local
initiatives, in rural and urban areas alike, have served as community
scale infrastructures that have helped revitalize local economies. They
are sustainable and allow for participation and decision-making on the
most
local level. <br>
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For community media advocates it's not just about having access to
broadband services, it's also about owning the infrastructure and
gaining access, rights and power to media that provide marginalized
community members with needed broadband access. Recently, city and state
legislation have surfaced that would prevent community owned broadband
networks, panelists will touch on the motives behind these bills and
ways to fight them. This digital dialogue will feature advocates,
experts and organizers who have been working on building community
broadband networks, they will reflect on lessons learned, best
practices, case studies and challenges. <br>
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<i>Featured Speakers:</i><br>
<ul><li>Christopher Mitchell, <a href="http://www.ilsr.org/" target="_blank">Institute
for Local Self-Reliance</a></li><li>Fabiola Carrion, <a href="http://www.progressivestates.org/" target="_blank">Progressive
States Network</a></li><li>Danielle Chynoweth, <a href="http://www.ucimc.org/" target="_blank">Urbana-Champaign
Independent Media Center</a></li>
<li><span>Diana Nucera, <a href="http://alliedmedia.org/" target="_blank">Allied Media
Projects</a></span></li>
<li><span><span><span>Edyael Casaperalta, <a href="http://www.ruralstrategies.org/" target="_blank">Center for Rural Strategies </a></span></span> </span><span>
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Moderated by Betty Yu, <a href="http://centerformediajustice.org/" target="_blank">Center for Media
Justice</a><br>
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<span>Email </span><a href="mailto:betty@centerformediajustice.org" style="color:rgb(255,102,0);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">betty@centerformediajustice.org</a><span> </span>for more info.</div><span><div class="im">
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Betty<br>
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<div>-- <br>Betty Yu<br>
Center for Media Justice<br>
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