[CWN-Summit] FCC Open Access ruling: positive strategy

[Michael Maranda]

We require a coordinated strategy to fight these (general) issues over the
long haul.  

IMHO We need to 

1) advance deployment - promote success stories (detail impact) and provide
documentation for their replication
2) coordinate communication strategy on the broader issues - tying our
issues to broader values  (frame)
3) organize on regional basis, with coordination nationally.  These issues
involve several layers of govt, and we should promote the issue at each
level.... Forming new coalitions of like interest.

Keeping this short, how is the www.communityinternet.us site coming?  How
can others help to document success stories and models for replication
there?  Are there other resources that serve to document this?  (#1 above)

For anyone interested in furthering efforts on #2 and #3... feel free to
contact me off-list.  (with full recognition that most of you are already
heavily engaged)

-MM 


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Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 1:07 PM
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Subject: Re: [CWN-Summit] FCC Open Access ruling


it's bad and it makes the argument for community networks (wired or
wireless) 
more compelling. in other words what we've been warning about is now 
happening.

On Monday 08 August 2005 11:52 am, Kari Gray wrote:
> My first reaction is that this is a terrible, terrible set back. Does 
> anyone have a positive angle on this? Does this make the municipal 
> broadband argument more or less compelling? I have suspected for 
> months that the open access battle is the one that would define the 
> campaign for increased access; am I being overly dramatic? Ben, Harold 
> - reassure me that this is not as bad as it seems.
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> Kari Gray
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> Common Assets
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> 660 york street, suite 102
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> San Francisco, CA  94110
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> (415) 241-2515
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> www.CommonAssets.org
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> www.Watermap.org

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