[1st-mile-nm] Santa Fe Area News

[Richard Lowenberg]

At their Tuesday, April 29th meeting, the Santa Fe County Commissioners approved
a Resolution to support the Santa Fe Regional Telecommunications Coalition, and
directed staff to continue with an application for membership to New Mexico
LambdaRail Network.   These initiatives intend to bring high bandwidth fiber
connectivity ot the City and County of Santa Fe and the Santa Fe Community
College, with the goal of providing NM Computing Applications Center
(Supercomputer gateway) connection to the Community College.

Santa Fe City Council hoped for approval of this Resolution was postponed until
its next (May 14th) meeting; as was a decision on providing WiFi access in
selected City and public sites (Libraries; community centers).

This weeks cover story in the Santa Fe Reporter broadly addresses issues of
network neutrality, and related Internet matters.  The article cites Jane Hill
of Cybermesa; Chris Kramer, chair of the NM Internet Professionals Association;
Marsha Baum, law professor at UNM, who teaches a class on Internet, Technology
and the Law, and others.   The Reporter article is online at:
http://sfreporter.com/articles/publish/cover-043008-one-web.php

If you have updates on any of these or other items, please post them to this
list.

Richard


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Richard Lowenberg
1st-Mile Institute
P.O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
505-989-9110;   505-603-5200 cell
rl at 1st-mile.com  www.1st-mile.com

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