Here in DC we're gearing up for One Web Day and it's looking to be the most extravagant OWD party I've helped organize yet! Want to learn more -- check out:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT
Nathaniel James
DC OWD Ambassador
Campaign Coordinator, Media and Democracy Coalition
njames@media-democracy.net
p: 202 736 5757
c: 206 954 3040

Morgan Weiland
DC OWD Ambassador
morganweiland@gmail.com
c: 202 256 7480

DC ONE WEB DAY: BLOGGER PREVIEW
Teleconference with One Web Day founder, ICANN Board Member and cyberlaw scholar Susan Crawford, and DC ambassadors

Wednesday, August 20, 3:30pm and 8pm.

Washington, DC—OneWebDay (OWD) is a global event held September 22 celebrating the Web and highlighting key issues about the future of the Internet, with a focus in its third year on online political participation. To celebrate and document the recent flourishing of online political participation in what has become a new "town square," the DC OWD Planning Committee is creating an E-Democracy Time Capsule that will go live online on August 22, one month before OWD. We are building a site where anyone, from all corners of the United States and the world, can mark history by contributing text, images, sound, and video to a tricked-out WordPress blog describing their favorite E-Democracy tools, letters to the future about their hopes for Web-powered politics, and profiles of E-Democracy Heroes.

We stand at a crossroads in the history of online political participation, and the future is uncertain. Policy decisions concerning digital inclusion, net neutrality, and online privacy and security will be made in the coming months and years. We all have a stake in ensuring that when the virtual Time Capsule is reopened on OWD in 2020, the new town square delivers on its promise to become a thriving marketplace of ideas where anyone can participate unhindered by illegitimate gatekeepers and a lack of access to the tools and skills they need to add their voice the dialog.

Join us August 20 for a teleconference with One Web Day founder, ICANN Board Member, and cyberlaw scholar Susan Crawford, and DC ambassadors Nathaniel James and Morgan Weiland to learn about how the E-Democracy Time Capsule can promote the work you do and what role you can play in helping to make this year's event a success. We welcome all bloggers interested in the promise of online political participation. To ensure maximum participation, we will host two calls, one at 3:30 PM ET and a second at 8:00 PM ET.

Teleconference details:

Who
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Susan Crawford
One Web Day founder
ICANN Board Member
and cyberlaw scholar at Michigan University

Nathanial James
DC OWD Ambassador and Campaign Coordinator
Media and Democracy Coalition

When
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Times
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3:30 PM ET / 12:30 PM PT
8:00 PM ET/ 5:00 PM PT

Dial-In
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(218) 339 4300, password: 425 755

Please dial in 5-10 minutes before call so we can start on time.

More information about OWD is available at www.onewebday.org.

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