[Mesh] Political economy of WiFi in Oakland

[Eddan Katz]

The attachments are of particular interest to the history of WiFi efforts in Oakland and the political economy surrounding the different initiatives.
Deborah Acosta, as many know, is now the Chief Innovation Officer of San Leandro.
There are also some documents that are not for public distribution outlining how things fell apart within the Oakland municipal government.

> From: "Deborah Acosta" <dacosta at idotconnect.net>
> Subject: RE: [sudo-discuss] Freedom of Information requests
> Date: January 25, 2013 3:42:52 PM EST
> To: "'Eddan Katz'" <eddan at eddan.com>, "'mark burdett'" <mark at 510pen.org>
> Cc: <sudo-discuss at lists.sudoroom.org>, "'Susan Mernit'" <mernit at gmail.com>
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> Eddan:  Here, let me help to make it easier.  I’ve attached a City RFP issued in 2006, the final report issued by the consultant and the final staff report that resulted from four years of work on the city wide wi-fi project.  The stories I could tell you.  Ultimately, the report found that the City’s fiber infrastructure was inadequate to implement such a project – and the City Council didn’t “get it” anyway.
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> The next story is about the public/private partnership (City, IP Network and Cisco) that applied for a federal ARRA grant in 2010 to build a $35 million fiber optic network throughout the City.  Didn’t get the grant.  Then my subsequent efforts to pick up the pieces (see attached Executive Summary and powerpoint completed 2 weeks before I left in June 2011).  No one has picked up this project since I left.
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> See Mark – you just have to ask the right person!!!  Call me if you have questions.
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> Work wasn’t wasted – San Leandro has hired me to become its first Chief Innovation Officer to represent Lit San Leandro and create a tech business development strategy in that City. 
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> Debbie
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> Deborah V. Acosta
> Principal, iDOTconnect
> Co-Chair, 2.Oakland
> Tel: (510) 508-7926
> Email: dacosta at iDOTconnect.net
> Web: www.iDOTconnect.net
> Web: www.twopointoakland.com
> Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TwoPointOak
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