[CAnet - news] A carbon negative Internet - Freedom to Connect Conference

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 [I encourage all those who are interested in the issues of global warming
and how the Internet call help mitigate against the greatest challenge of
our lifetime to attend the upcoming Freedom to Connect Conference in
Washington DC --BSA]

http://freedom-to-connect.net/

Announcing F2C: Freedom to Connect 2008! 
March 31 & April 1, 2008, Washington, DC

The theme of F2C: Freedom to Connect 2008 is "The NetHeads Come to
Washington."

This year there will be a second theme at F2C, "A Carbon-Negative Internet."
We will devote at least one session, and perhaps a half day, to exploring
the impacts of applications like user monitored edge-based control of energy
usage, cloud routing of compute-intensive operations to geographical
locations with renewable energy, peer-to-peer automobile traffic
optimization, and the putative trade-off between physical presence and
virtual presence.

Conventional wisdom is that NetHeads have sharply different interests than
telephone companies and cable companies. This is mostly true, yet both need
a robust, sustainable Internet. It is in the long-term interests of neither
to kill the 'Net's success factors. Further, conventional wisdom is that
NetHeads are represented by public advocacy groups like Free Press, Public
Knowledge, and the New America Foundation and aligned with Internet
companies like Google, Amazon, and eBay. Again this is directionally
correct, but the diversity of the NetHead community ensures divergence on
key issues.

Biology teaches that diversity is good. Most business practices teach the
opposite. Washington hears much from the telcos and cablecos, and much from
the Internet companies and the public advocacy groups, but way too little
from the NetHeads themselves. F2C 2008 will provide a platform for NetHead
voices and a forum for dialog among all parties with a stake in the future
of an open, sustainable, state-of-the-art Internet.

So far (this is changing rapidly so check back here often) F2C speakers
include:

    * Tim Wu, Professor, Columbia Law School, Author of Wireless Carterphone
(2007)
    * Tom Evslin, founder ITXC, founder AT&T WorldNet, blogger, author,
telecom activist
    * Reed Hundt, former chairman of the FCC
    * Andrew Rasiej, co-founder, Personal Democracy Forum
    * Bill St. Arnaud, Chief Research Officer CANARIE and green-broadband
blogger
    * Brad Templeton, Chairman, Electronic Frontier Foundation
    * Katrin Verclas, former Exec. Director NTEN, MobileActive blogger.
    * Robin Chase, founder of ZipCar, entrepreneuse and environmentalist. 

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