Bloggers

Phil Belanger: Aligning Infrastructure and Applications
Wireless veteran Phil Belanger is co-principal at Novarum, a strategic consulting firm assessing the performance of citywide wireless networks. He and the Novarum team chair the Wireless Networks User Experience Roundtable at the W2i Digital Cities Convention.
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James Farstad: Value-Added Networks
James Farstad is President of rClient in Minneapolis and is the City's principal consultant on its broadband-wireless implementation. He moderates the Service-Provider Executives and Local-Government CIOs Roundtable at the W2i Digital Cities Convention.
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K. Anne-Rivers Forcke: Digital Inclusion
K. Anne-Rivers Forcke is Public Sector Market Manager, Human Ability and Accessibility Center, IBM Research.
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Robert Horvitz: View from Europe
Robert Horvitz is founder and director of the Open Spectrum Foundation in Prague.
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Ryan McCaigue: Municipal Wireless Architecture
Ryan McCaigue is President of Ivy League Consulting. He and his team have engineered, deployed, and managed some of the largest wireless networks in the US including first of its kind metro WIFI mesh network covering Tempe (AZ), Chandler (AZ), Framingham (MA), and Anaheim (CA). He can be reached at (480) 213-7240.
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Peter Orne: Wireless Government
Peter Orne has been W2i's Editorial Director since 2002. He produces W2i's weekly Wireless Government Report and is the agenda planner for Digital Cities conference series. Contact him at (617) 439-5400.
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Michael Paddock: Funding Wireless
Mr. Paddock has been involved in grants development since 1993. In that time he has consulted with hundreds of state and local governments, nonprofits, and corporations around the United States.
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Bob Panoff: Community Needs & Technology Choice
Bob Panoff, President of RPM in North Attleboro (MA) has been a major contributor to the Rhode-Island WINS wireless initiative.
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Sonja Reece: Community Issues
Sonja Reece is a council member and mayor pro-tem of Normal (IL). She is active with the National League of Cities (NLC) and has chaired the Information Technology & Communications Steering Committee.
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Glenn Strachan: World View
Glenns Strachan is former project director for Macedonia Connects.
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Costis Toregas: Business Process Reengineering
Costis Toregas is President Emeritus, Public Technology Institute, and a lecturer at George Washington University. He chairs the jury of W2i's Wireless Communities Best Practices Awards.
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