Sascha Meinrath Named Research Director of New America Foundation's Wireless Future Program

For folks wondering about the long silence on my blog. I've just moved cross-country to Washington, DC to work with one of the leading public interest think tanks working on telecommunications policy:

Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
August 15, 2007

CONTACT:
Jerry Irvine
(301) 801-3356
irvine@newamerica.net

Sascha Meinrath Named Research Director of New America Foundation's Wireless Future Program

(WASHINGTON, D.C., August 15, 2007)— The New America Foundation is pleased to announce that Sascha Meinrath has been named as the new research director of its Wireless Future Program. Described as a "community internet pioneer" and "wireless broadband visionary," Mr. Meinrath joins New America at an exciting era in wireless policy and technological innovation.

"Sascha is the rare policy intellectual who has actually designed wireless broadband software and climbed up on rooftops to install community networks," said Michael Calabrese, director of the Wireless Future Program. "He knows the technology, the policy and most of the important community wireless activists across the country and around the world."

"This is a defining moment in telecommunications history, and we have an opportunity to improve the very foundation of digital communications and positively impact our world for generations to come,” said Meinrath. “I am honored to be working with New America's top-notch team and look forward to leading our program's R&D efforts."

Prior to joining New America, Mr. Meinrath served as a policy analyst for Free Press and as the director for Municipal and Community Networking for the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) COMMONS project at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. He is also a co-founder and executive director of the CUWiN Foundation, one of the world's leading open-source wireless research and development initiatives. In 2004, Mr. Meinrath organized the first National Summit for Community Wireless Networks, helping launch the Community/Wireless Networking Movement; and he has hosted the International Summit for Community Wireless Networks for the past two years. He blogs regularly at: www.saschameinrath.com

About New America’s Wireless Future Program
Since 2001 New America's Wireless Future Program has influenced and reframed the national debate over spectrum policy, universal broadband, and network neutrality and telecommunications regulation. For more information please visit the Wireless Future web site.

About the New America Foundation
The New America Foundation is a nonprofit, post-partisan public policy institute whose purpose is to bring exceptionally promising new voices and new ideas to the fore of our nation's public discourse. Relying on a venture capital approach, the Foundation invests in outstanding individuals and policy solutions that transcend the conventional political spectrum. Headquartered in our nation's capital, New America also has offices in California and New York. More information is available at www.newamerica.net