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Date: Tuesday, May 22, 2007, 2:305:30 p.m.
Location: W2i Digital Cities Convention in Chicago
For more information, contact: mcollins@w2i.org
Digital Inclusion is a major motivation for deploying broadband infrastructure in urban and rural areas. But communications infrastructure is only one of many things that must align to trigger the adoption of integrated strategies to address the digital divide. Through panels of thought leaders, case study presentations, and structured brainstorm sessions, the Digital Inclusion Roundtable explores local, state and national digital inclusion efforts amid an emerging global discussion on digital-inclusion best practices.
Preliminary Agenda in Chicago
2:303:45 p.m.
Plenary Panel: Government-Led Digital Inclusion Initiatives (75')
Local-government and institutional stakeholders representing government-backed digital-inclusion programsrural and urban, from the U.S. and the U.K.discuss project goals, challenges and time frames.
3:454:00 p.m.
Break
4:005:30 p.m.
Structured Brainstorm Session: Urban and Rural Inclusion Compared (110')
With the State of Illinois and the City of Chicago as a backdrop, digital-inclusion experts and project leaders compare and contrast digitial-inclusion challenges in urban neighborhoods versus rural communities. Moderated by K. Anne Rivers-Forcke, IBM WW Human Ability & Accessibility Center.
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Who Should Attend?
• Rural and urban digital inclusion experts and stakeholders
• Community technology program leaders
• Local-government CIOs
• Academics and students of digital inclusion initiatives
• Institutional leaders of campuses, hospitals, libraries, etc. and their IT directors
• Wireless service providers and systems integrators
• Wireless application providers
• Broadband marketing and business development executives
W2i extends a special thanks to its 2006 moderators:
- Costis Toregas, President Emeritus, Public Technology Institute; Chair, National Academy of Public Administration Standing Panel on Social Equity in Governance
- Anne-Rivers Forcke, IBM WW Human Ability & Accessibility Center, and
- Nigel Ballard, Manager, Digital Inclusion, Intel Americas, State & Local Government
- Kevin Carey, Director, HumanITy
About W2i and the Digital Cities Convention Series
The Wireless Internet Institute (W2i) is an independent forum bringing together stakeholders around the world to accelerate the adoption of wireless Internet in support of social and economic development and better managed cities, communities and regions. Held annually in three to four regions of the world, the W2i Digital Cities Convention includes a thought-leadership conference exploring the planning and deployment of broadband-wireless infrastructure, applications and services; practical training for local authorities; roundtables for wireless service-provider executives and digital-inclusion stakeholders; the annual Wireless Communities Best-Practices Awards; and a Technology Showcase produced in partnership with the public sector, private sector, and international development institutions. Building on conventions in Philadelphia, Shanghai, San Francisco, Bilbão, Houston, Rio, and Los Angeles, London, and Tempe, Arizona, planning is in final stages for São Paulo (April 12) and Chicago (May 2223).
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