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The Digital Inclusion Communities Report | Subscribe to NewsletterPublished once a week, the Digital Inclusion Communities Report (The DI Report) explores the issues surrounding the planning and implementation of broadband infrastructures, applications to bridge the digital divide in cities, counties and states. Through a series of blogs, The DI Report features thought-leading commentaries and interviews with local authorities, field practitioners, industry experts, local-government associations; and it highlights leading case studies, best practices, and a recap of headlines. All digital inclusion stakeholders — from local-government officials and IT professionals, policy makers, field practitioners to the ecosystem of service providers, equipment and application vendors, and system integrators, are encouraged to subscribe. BloggersJames Farstad is President of rClient in Minneapolis. As project leader of Wireless Minneapolis, he has been substantially involved in the digital-inclusion component of the citywide Wi-Fi deployment. K. Anne-Rivers Forcke, Public Sector Market Manager, Human Ability and Accessibility Center, IBM Research, has chaired the Digital Inclusion Roundtable at the W2i Digital Cities Convention since its inception in 2006. Judith Stanford Miller, M.Ed., is President and Co-Founder of NinthWave Media in Toledo, Ohio. Sonja Reece is a councilmember and mayor pro-tem for the Town of Normal, Illinois. She is active with the National League of Cities' (NLC) Information Technology and Communications Steering Committee. Catherine Settanni runs the Digital Access Project in Minneapolis. Costis Toregas is President Emeritus, Public Technology Institute, and a lecturer at George Washington University. |
