Broadband and Rural Communities 8.10.09

Broadband and Rural Communities
Creating a Healthy Digital Ecology and a Community Vision for Federal Funding
Main Street Project www.mainstreetproject.org Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-Net) www.mag-net.org

Communication Rights
Communication is an essential human need and fundamental human right
Our communities deserve to be politically , culturally and technologically connected
We need community-based, people-centered communications technologies and policies

Digital Ecology Ecology: 1. The study of how living things and their environment interact with one another. 2. A system of such relationships within a particular environment. Digital Ecology: 1. An active and multidisciplinary inquiry into, and exploration of how living things interact with, are shaped by and shape, a digital environment ( i.e., “infosphere” ) and the mechanisms through which information, stories, and cultural knowledge are produced, accessed, shared and received. 2. The study of key ecological issues concerning the quality of life in an environment increasingly based on digitized information. 3. A community-based, and people-centered, information system rooted in the belief that we deserve a healthy and just political, economic, cultural and technological environment in the digital age.

Agenda
Welcome and Intro
Panel Presentations
Small Group Discussion
Report Back and Dot-mocracy
Questions/Comments

Small Group Discussion
What role does broadband play in your community?
What challenges have you experienced?
Based on what you’ve heard today, what opportunities exist for your community?

Broadband and Rural Communities 8.10.09

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