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Sascha Meinrath

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Recent Articles

Opinion: Media Mergers Threaten Community News
October 24, 2008 - Consolidation of media ownership means less diversity of opinion.

Beyond Digital Inclusion
June 18, 2007 - Chicago pursues broadband access to benefit young, old and everybody in between, and serves as an example for how to approach digital inclusion.

Disaster Response: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
December 18, 2006 - The problem of emergency communications and disaster recovery is often not the lack of resources, but lack of coordination. After Katrina, Sascha Meinrath coordinated the Community Wireless Emergency Response Initiative. The following offers some of what he and others learned about emergency communications.

What Are the Barriers to Digital Inclusion?
November 20, 2006 - This is Part III of a 3-part series on Digital Inclusion perspectives from around the globe.

MuniWireless Minneapolis Take-Aways: Digital Inclusion, Rakish Genius, and a Dash of Debauchery
November 03, 2006 - Last week's Municipal Wireless Conference in Minneapolis, MN brought together visionaries and wireless networking experts. Digital Communities contributor, Sascha Meinrath, provides both a summary and his take-aways in his usual no-holds-barred style.

CUWiN: Wirelessing the Revolution with Open Source Mesh Wireless Technologies
November 01, 2006 - After the National Science Foundation awarded $500,000 to support research by CUWiN and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, we asked Digital Communities contributor, Sascha Meinrath, to explain what they were doing. This is the first in an ongoing series that will focus on under-the-radar, cutting-edge alternative technologies which can serve many different community needs.

What Can We Do To Address Digital Inclusion?
October 11, 2006 - This is the second of a three part series that looks at Digital Inclusion in the U.S. and around the world.

Digital Inclusion: Social Justice in a Communications Age
September 29, 2006 - As many municipal wireless initiatives have a digital inclusion component, this is Part One of a special 3-part series on Digital Inclusion perspectives from around the globe.

Municipal Wi-Fi- Series: Boston's Forward-Looking Innovations
September 25, 2006 - The second in our series examining the evolving models of municipal Wi-Fi adoption.

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Collaboration for the Public Sector



Collaborative Justice: Transforming Criminal Justice Services Through Unified Collaboration
This issue brief examines video collaboration in every stage of the human justice process, demonstrating how this technology can not only make services more efficient, affordable, and accessible.

Cloud-Based Services Accelerate Public Sector Adoption of Video Collaboration
Today, thanks to new cloud technologies and high-quality networks, mobile video services - which provide not only cost savings but which help governmental interactions become more efficient - are more feasible than ever before.

Modernization as a Service: Acquiring IT through Innovative Procurement

Five Ways Collaboration is Driving Government Performance

Mobile Video Collaboration: The New Business Reality