Introductions

Jacob (dad has worked on Broadband Plan), Jenny, Nadar, Ryan, Mitar, Paige, Doyan [siehjr@gmail.com] (tried to launch a project in Monrovia 7 years ago, focus on hardware)

Notes

Cost to store data
Avoid ownership and thus liability
- Write in lack of ownership for state/market as well
Structure:
- Administrative
- Technical
How to address collaboration and cooperation with ISPs?
- We can help by reaching communities that don't currently have access, but once we help them get it will be interested in subscribing to the ISPs
Monrovia project failed due to greed
Antitrust law for protection, supporting diversity in business models
Move toward local governments experimenting with new forms of public/private partnership
Cities can ally with local meshes to supercede the interests of major corporate players, can ally toward using public infrastructure
We could also build in our own fiber!
Three potential neighborhoods to initially deploy:
- LOL/SOL
- West Oakland
- Berkeley Coops
Workshops and talks series
Public-people partnership as approach to municipal wifi
- They have Access to lightpoles, buildings, shafts
- Don't have access to homes/residencies.
Policy levels:
- Spectrum
- Antitrust