[DC3] Meeting between DC3-IEEE

Hi guys, I met with Karen McCabe, Senior Director of Technology Policy and International Affairs of IEEE and James Wendorf, Internet Venture Program Director. I just want to share with you the outcomes of my meeting with IEEE. The other meeting that comes tomorrow is with the guy from the Libraries. This is the email I sent to IEEE guys: --- Hi! It has been awesome to get together with you two! Let me just brief you about we have been talking about... please, add or correct anything you want on this. This is just a Draft, for us to share with each of our institutions: IEEE as the Global Technical Community acknowledges that promoting the expansion of Internet from bottom up through Community Networking is a viable way and would like to promote it. The Dynamic Coallision for Community Connectivity (DC3 for short) represents the global community of Community Networks build from bottom up, and have the will to grow in a sustainable way. IEEE and DC3 agree to work together to promote Community Networks as a mean to grow Internet in a sustainable and empowering way. These are the initiatives related directly with Community Networks that we have talked about: * DC3 will open and share the Courses on Community Network building (non-technical, 8 hours long) and the Diplomacy on Community Networks (technical, around 64 hours long). * IEEE will endorse the Courses on Community Network building and the Diplomacy on Community Networks. We will work together to take the courses from a simple endorsement to a certification if it can be. * IEEE, DC3 and the International Federation of Library Association and Institutions (IFLA) commit to work together on get tools for people to build their own networks and be able to be part of Internet. * With the involvement of the IFLA, we will coordinate with DC3, IEEE and the Libraries to have a pilot to give the courses on site and empower one community we will choose together. We will document the process in order to use them as an example for each organization to motivate the members on this initiative. * As a long term goal, we will encourage Engineers on the field around the world to promote Community Networks as a means to do Community work. We also talked about TV Whitespace, and the need for a global open standard protocol for exchanging spectrum usage information. We commited to get to our communities to know a little more about how things are going on IEEE side (IEEE 802 technical group). We share the concern to have an open standard protocol for exchanging spectrum usage information. On my side, I need to talk to my community about what needs to be done to open our content. On your side, you will talk with your people about the proposals and about what happened with TVWS inside TVWS. Hope to start working with you! Regards, -- Nicolás Pace http://www.linkedin.com/in/nickar