A Global Program for Local Government
The W2i Digital Cities Convention is a global program gathering together local-government elected and agency officials as well as broadband-wireless ecosystem stakeholders such as regulators, technology vendors exness, service providers, system integrators, real-estate and rights-of-way owners, and funding organizations. Following industry-defining events in 2005 in Philadelphia, Shanghai, San Francisco, and Bilbão, Spain, the 2006 series includes events in Houston, Rio de Janeiro, Taipei, Los Angeles, Westminster (U.K.), and Philadelphia. The Wireless Internet Institute was launched in 2002 as an independent forum bringing together stakeholders to accelerate the adoption of broadband-wireless technologies in support of universal connectivity for economic, social, and educational development around the world.
Convention Overview
Mission
Digital Cities Convention fosters the adoption of broadband wireless technologies under the leadership of local government officials and related real estate owners such as campuses, office or industrial parks, residential developments and other local communities:
• sharing and documenting best practices among early adopters
• Facilitating the interaction of buyers and sellers through the display of integrated solutions and case studies ลงทะเบียน exness
• Offering a thought leadership platform for stakeholders to explore and develop innovative funding and implementation scenarios
• Providing basic know how and tool kits to allow potential users to gain confidence in the new technology
Format
Common Plenary Sessions Panels:
• Technology roadmap
• Regulatory landscape
• Broadband Wireless: an Opportunity for Public/Private Partnerships
• Local Government: Building the Business Case
• Funding Scenarios
Multi-track Best Practices Sharing and Thought Leadership
Each track consists of a case study panel, a structured brainstorm workshop and a workshop summary session:
• Developing a broadband wireless infrastructure: Elected officials leadership role
• Wireless broadband infrastructure: a new road to municipal workforce productivity exness-th.com
• Pervasive Wireless Computing a Path to New and Improved Services to Citizens
• Wireless Internet: Shrinking the Digital Divide in Underserved Communities
• Citywide Wireless Infrastructure: the New Frontier of Local Community Economic Development
Product and solution exhibit:
• Individual exhibitors will be encouraged to show live product demos and applications
Audience
Primary audience:
• Local government elected officials taking a leadership role in fostering the deployment of information and telecommunications services in their local communities
• Local government agency executives in charge of deploying applications fostering economic development, municipal workforce productivity, e-citizen services, shared access services in underserved communities
Secondary audience:
• Other local community leaders controlling significant real estate with potential users such as office and industrial parks, campuses and residential developments
• Local service providers, including telecommunications and utility distribution organizations (power, water, highways, railways…)
• Wireless Internet Service providers and systems integrators
• Infrastructure funding organizations
• Telecommunications regulators
2007 Schedule
Digital Cities Convention will be held yearly in each of three regions of the world:
North America: Tempe, AZ
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Feb. 14-15, 2007 |
North America: Chicago, IL
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May 22-23, 2007 |
Asia: Seoul, Korea |
June 26-27, 2007 |
South America: Sao Paulo, Brazil
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September 11, 2007 |
Europe: London, UK |
October 16-17, 2007 |
North America: Washington, D.C. |
December 11-12, 2007 |
Over the last two years, the Wireless Internet Institute has led an effort to accelerate the adoption of broadband wireless Internet in cooperation with international development organizations, industry standards organizations and private sector stakeholders. It has primarily focused its activities on:
• Fostering the adoption of favorable regulatory frameworks in compliance with the World Radio Conference resolution on unlicensed spectrum
• Disseminating information on broadband wireless technologies
• Exploring sustainable business models
• Sharing of best practices among field practitioners
As regulatory frameworks have liberalized around greater harmonization, market dynamics are shifting to actual implementation of broadband wireless network infrastructure. W2i has identified the following primary market drivers:
• Compelling requirement from local communities seeking competitive communications infrastructures and appropriate coverage for all their constituents.
• Quest for increased productivity for local government workforces and services
• Desire to provide low cost Internet access to large segments of underserved populations in both urban and rural communities
• Opportunity to offer new classes of information services to local constituencies.
In view of those opportunities, local government elected officials and agencies are taking an increasing leadership role in fostering the adoption and deployment of broadband wireless infrastructure, which our research shows is overwhelmingly perceived as an essential utility.
In response to those emerging trend, a new ecosystem of technology providers, systems integrators, service providers is taking shape, as witnessed by the establishment by major suppliers such as IBM, Intel, Alcatel, France Telecom to name a few, of business units and practices focusing their resources on servicing that emerging market.
Market Size
While it is early to assess the actual market size, there is extensive anecdotal evidence that local governments throughout the world are deploying broadband wireless infrastructures to enable a broad range of applications addressing:
• Economic development
• Municipal workforce productivity
• Social e-services such as e-government, e-health, e-education…
• Shrinkage of the growing digital divide affecting underserved rural and urban communities
• Leapfrog of wired broadband infrastructure technologies
When polled, elected officials and local government executives leading economic development, social services, infrastructure management and public safety public agencies to name a few, overwhelmingly consider that broadband wireless infrastructure is an essential utility to their community.
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