Technology Futures

PCNA Conference 2006: First impressions

Submitted by acohill on Fri, 02/24/2006 - 17:09.

I'm at the Pacific Community Network Association Annual Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. I gave the opening keynote this morning. I am really impressed with the energy and enthusiasm for broadband here. Folks up here understand better than many U.S. communities that broadband--affordable broadband--is essential to their communites. The province of British Columbia has hundreds of local community technology projects--active, vibrant efforts that are providing access, training, and services to hundreds of thousands of people in rural communities.

I'll be posting more over the next couple of days. Stay tuned.