Free Speech in 2034: Local Communications Security Meeting #1
Washington DC (i.e. the new Administration) Wants to Know What You Think about the Protecting the Internet, Open Networks and Public Access. Communications Security Meeting at CCTV on Thursday, December 18th from 2:30 – 4pm
CCTV’s Center for Media & Democracy joins activists across the country to gather grass roots input (that means you!) on new Internet policies that keep local media and communications networks OPEN today and in the future. Our good ideas will be included in an Internet White Paper, compiled by the Media & Democracy for the Administration, new FCC Commissioners and members of Congress.
Sign up here: http://www.cctv.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=104
We invite you--community leaders and interested people--to attend a 90 minute discussion on 12/18 at 2:30PM that starts to secure the future of our media and communications networks. (Please feel free to recommend
this event to other connected friends and colleagues!)
What will the
communications network look like in 2034? Will Internet networks operate like public highways or private malls? What devices will we be using? Who will own them? Will there be a digital divide? How will activists and public organizations tell their stories and mobilize their supporters? Will there be local media outlets owned by small enterprise with diverse ownership? Will Burlington Telecom be a much copied and successful model? Will there be any place that is not connected? Will every corner host a live video camera? Will we live in a surveillance society? Will techno-health concerns come home to roost? What will campaigns and voting be like? Will there even be a contract with cable operators to provide public access? What other questions can you think of that affects the people you work with.
Following the
meeting, at 4.30 PM we'll push back the meeting tables to celebrate the holidays with Channel 17 Trustees and CCTV Staff and Board....
This meeting is funded in part by the Media Justice Fund, the Media & Democracy Fund and the Surdna Foundation. Communications Security Meeting #2 is slated for January 22nd at 2:30PM.
For more information
and to register: http://www.cctv.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=104