Hello colleagues, You are invited to an online gathering with participants from Canada, the USA including Hawaii and Alaska, Australia and France. The event will take place on Friday, April 4 for two hours, starting at 15:30 Atlantic Canada time. The agenda is below. The occasion is the launch of the special issue of the Journal of Community Informatics (JoCI) on the First Mile of broadband connectivity - communities doing it for themselves. Authors of the article will speak about their research and the communities they are working with. We will also launch the Community Informatics declaration: An Internet for the Common Good. Please join us for this exciting and informative event by watching the live stream and participating in the chat, at this link that will go live at the start time of 15:30 Atlantic Canada time on April 4: http://live.knet.ca/fni The JoCI special issue will be launched April 4 at this link: http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej An Internet for the Common Good: A Community Informatics Declaration http://tinyurl.com/kfaacqn Visit the First Mile web site at http://meeting.knet.ca/mp19/mod/book/view.php?id=4339 for additional information. Agenda - April 4, 2014 - Atlantic Canada times shown 15:30-15:40: Susan O'Donnell *Welcome and introductions *Purpose of the gathering *Context of JoCI issue (and editorial) 15:40-15:45: Aljona Zorina *Assistant Professor, Information & Operation Management Department ESCP Europe, Paris, France *Building Broadband Infrastructure from the Grassroots: the Case of Home LANs in Belarus 15:45-15:50: Allan Bly *Vitel, Edmonton, Canada *Rural Communications: What is a Rural Municipality's Role? 15:50-15:55: Brian Beaton *Graduate Student, Faculty of Education, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada *The First Mile Approach to Community Services in Fort Severn First Nation 15:55-16:00: Rob McMahon *Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of New Brunswick Vancouver, Canada *From the First Mile to Outer Space: Tamaani Satellite Internet in Northern Quebec 16:00-16:05: Susan O'Donnell *Researcher and Adjunct Professor, Department of Sociology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada *Developing an e-Community Approach to Community Services in Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation 16:05-16:10: Michael Karanicolas *Legal Officer for the Centre for Law and Democracy, Halifax, Canada *Bridging the Divide: Understanding and Implementing Access to the Internet as a Human Right 16:10 - 16:15: Nadine I. Kozak *Assistant Professor at the School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA *Local Communities and Home Rule: Extending the Alberta SuperNet to Unserved Areas 16:15-16:20: Heather Hudson *Professor, Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA *The First Mile Connectivity Consortium and Digital Regulation in Canada (#1106) 16:20-16:25: Jenifer Sunrise Winter, Assistant Professor Wayne Buente Assistant Professor Patricia Amaral Buskirk Assistant Professor *School of Communications, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA *Opportunities and Challenges for First-mile Development in Rural Hawaiian Communities 16:25-16:30: Helena Grunfeld *Research Scholar at the Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia *ICT for sustainable development: an example from Cambodia 16:30-16:35 Michael Gurstein *Managing Director, Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training, Vancouver, Canada *Introduction to "An internet for the common good - a Community Informatics declaration" (http://tinyurl.com/kfaacqn) 17:15-17:30: Susan O'Donnell *Discussion/questions *Thanks and wrap-up Brian Beaton Research Associate, Keewaytinook Okimakanak Research Institute Researcher, First Nations Innovation Project Graduate Student, Faculty of Education, Critical Studies, University of New Brunswick Contact Details: Snail Mail: Box 104, Station A, Fredericton, NB, E3B 4Y2 T: 877-737-5638 x4522 E: brian.beaton@unb.ca First Nations Innovation - Researching and Publishing First Nation ICT innovations - http://fn-innovation-pn.com <http://fn-innovation-pn.com/>