Archive for June 16th, 2007

Yes Men strike Oil

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

Via GiftHub:

Conference organizer fails to have Yes Men arrested

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missed opportunity to take a stand

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

Recently on the Get Illinois Online (GIO) listserv:

(quite a contrast with Maine’s Resolve!)

Not only was Net Neutrality cut out of HB 1500, an Illinois House Resolution (HR 307) sponsored by Rep. Fritchey (D-Chicago) stalled in the House Computer Technology Committee and never made it to the House floor. While it would have no legal force, it would have expressed the sense of the Illinois House on the matter to the President, the Congress and the FCC. See the text below.

Stu Chapman
Municipal Services Associates, Inc.

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Chicago Report on Digital Excellence

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

The long awaited report from the Mayor’s Advisory Council on Closing the Digital Divide was released Friday June 15th at the Community Media Summit convened by the Benton Foundation and the Community Media Workshop under the title The City that NetWorks: Transforming Society and Economy Through Digital Excellence.

Digital Excellence is both means and end for Chicago as the City of Excellence. The Chicago Digital Access Alliance (CDAA) had a large hand in bringing this vision into the public sphere. We’ll turn a critical eye to the details of the report, as is our duty, but for now we celebrate it’s release and the vision that has been established, and we offer our deepest gratitude to Julia M. Stasch for her service to our city in chairing the Mayor’s Advisory Council and shepherding this visionary and historical document.

Stay tuned for analysis and response.

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