March 29.2009 - March 30.2009

AFI Silver Theater
Silver Spring, MD

All eyes are on the economy. The Obama Administration has declared the Internet a keystone. F2C 2009 presents the people of the Internet who enable economic growth, strengthen democracy, facilitate creativity and innovation, make the Earth greener, and lower the barriers that divide people.

F2C 2009 will tell the story of:

* on-line, network-enabled industry and culture, new jobs and sustainable growth
* Burlington VT, where muni fiber enables business, artistic endeavor, and new telemedicine
* how Lafayette LA’s community came together as it built its muni fiber network
* the twin cities of Cedar Falls and Waterloo, Iowa, where one twin has a muni net, and the other doesn’t
* how municipal CIOs are planning for Seattle, Portland and San Francisco municipal fiber networks
* city nets, wired and wireless, that didn’t work — what went wrong and what that teaches
* what Obama’s infrastructure and economic recovery plans mean for tomorrow’s network
* and more …

For more information, go to freedom-to-connect.net