I'm here in California at the Tech Policy Summit and just presented on a panel, "The Future of Wide-Area Public Broadband." The panel's been covered by Capitol Valley Media here.

Here's a picture from Andrew (I'm the first seated fellow on the left):

I'd forgotten to mention that I'm not just attending the Politics Online Conference, I'm also giving two presentations while here:

• Privacy in the Digital Age -- Wednesday, March 4th at 3:30pm.
• Open Source Government -- Thursday, March 5th at 1:45pm.

Should make for some fairly rambunctious debates.

Below are the slides from Aaron Kaplan and Jon Peha's presentations at today's "The Future of Municipal Wireless" event at the New America Foundation.

Presented at the 2007 Community Wireless Infrastructure Research Project (CWIRP) Workshop in Toronto, Canada on October 16, 2007, "US Telecommunications: Policy and Fantasy in the 21st Century" takes analyses the implications of four initiatives affecting 21st century telecommunications:

1. Broadband Census of America Act of 2007
2. Community Broadband Act
3. Open Platform requirements of the 700MHz spectrum auction
4. White Space Devices

A number of folks have asked me to provide my plenary presentation from the Broadband in Cities and Towns Conference that took place October 30-31, 2007. Better Broadband for Cities and Towns and the Rise of Open Technology explores the explosive growth of community wireless networking around the globe and highlights a half-dozen networks, the implementation of the CAIDA COMMONS Project to interlink participating networks, and emergent open technologies that will shift community networks to a "device as infrastructure" model.

Wireless Tech & Regulatory Reality: Policy & Fantasy in the 21st Century provides a background analysis of community wireless technologies and an overview of the political battle over White Space Devices in the United States. This was presented in Maribor, Slovenia on October 26, 2007 at the Kiblix Conference (an intriguing blend of art and Linux -- Maja Vuksanović did a great job coordinating my time there).

Attached is a copy of the October 15, 2007 COMMONS presentation I gave at the Rural Telecommunications Congress in Springfield, Illinois. The presentation is an overview of the COMMONS Project, a research initiative to provide broadband access to communities in return for networking data for scientists. A more in depth overview of the COMMONS Project can be read here.

This week I'm in Washington, DC for the Freedom to Connect Conference and to talk with congressional staff about the need for research projects like COMMONS. I just finished up a panel where I gave a presentation on cooperative networking (AKA the COMMONS Project).