Meet & Greet Event in San Francisco on Feb 12!

Local members are invited to join the Chapter Board and representatives from global Internet Society for an informal Roundtable discussion on February 12 in San Francisco. RSVP is required and space is extremely limited.

• Want to attend the inaugural North American School of Internet Governance (NASIG) in Puerto Rico in March? Registration has been extended until February 20 and scholarships are still available!

• San Francisco’s Mayor Mark Farrell is pushing forward with plans to build a city-wide fiber network. Details about design and cost of this potentially ubiquitous, open FTTP deployment can be found in this exhaustive report.

• The Internet Governance Forum – USA has announced an Open Call for Topics for its 2018 conference. Please send in your contributions before Feb 12 to shape discussions about the future of the Internet!

•  At the beginning of 2017, we teamed up with the Geographical Information Center (GIC) and California State University, Chico to carry out a year-long research project, “Bridging California’s Rural/Urban Digital Divide with Mobile Broadband”. Our Chapter Project on Measuring Rural Broadband is now complete! 

   

   

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