Thought I¹d pass this along. It¹s open to the public, and should be interesting. B The Minnesota Global Forum WI-FI in Minneapolis: Public Ownership, or Private? The City of Minneapolis plans to allow a single, private company to own and operate a citywide wireless information network. Hundreds of other cities around the U.S. -- Saint Louis Park, Minnesota to Corpus Christi, Texas -- have chosen public ownership, and have been overwhelmingly satisfied with the choice. Join us at the Minnesota Global Forum to learn why publicly owned infrastructure is vital to Minnesota's information future. Speaker: Becca Vargo Daggett, Research Associate at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and co-author of Who Will Own Minnesota's Information Highways? Acadia Cafe, 1931 Nicollet (Nicollet & East Franklin) Wednesday, January 18th, 5-7 p.m. (Arrive in time to get refreshments!) Sponsored by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy & the Minnesota International Directory (an IATP project) For more information, call Katie Fournier, 612/331-5615 or kfournier1 at mn.rr.com <mailto:kfournier1 at mn.rr.com> -- Ben Nelson 612.685.9116 cell benmgroup at earthlink.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tcwug-list/attachments/20060113/13285ece/attachment.htm