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| 12:30 | Registration, lunch and exhibition visit | |
| 13:30 | Community Networks Springing Up All Over!
CBN has recently completed a survey of community network activity - with surprising results. An update from Malcolm Corbett and Lindsey Annison on who's doing what, where and how many of us there are - using data that no one else has. Malcolm will also brief you on CBN's progress as a new Co-op and its plans for the future. | |
| 14:00 | Spring or Sprung? Government's attitude to community networks and our role in the development of UK broadband
Nigel Griffiths MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Construction, Small Business and Enterprise. | |
| 14:15 | Making your voice count - The Phone Co-op's story
As a customer-owned business based on ethical values, The Phone Co-op occupies a unique position in the telecoms and internet industries. Hear from Vivian Woodell, chief executive, how the business founded in 1998 has grown to a profitable £4m enterprise which grew revenues by 28% last year in a fiercely competitive market. | |
| 14:35 | Hare or Scare? - ABC's 'manifesto' for the Middle Mile
A call for radical change in how networks can be made to deliver abundance – faster, better, cheaper – or is it too scary for the industry and the regulator? | |
| 14:55 | Networking break and exhibition visit | |
| 15:30 | Out and About – view from real projects developing services and business 'on the ground'
If you like the idea of 'our guys on stage with case studies' then this is the session for you. Who they are, why they're doing it, what they're planning: Tynephone - innovative voice/broadband services targeted at SMEs (Partners are Cybermoor, The Phone Coop, ONE NE, Northumberland Strategic Partnership) ORB's WiFi museum development plans - Adrian Wooster will brief you on Oxford Rural Broadband's idea for a WiFi virtual museum - can they really make it happen? Hear about a risky but exciting project The Global Valley - Anne Handley talks about a new project coming out of Community Network 3-C and the Engine Room South Witham Broadband - Helen Anderson from SWBB (up for a RegenIT award in March) tells how to do it on a social enterprise basis | |
| 16:30 | Digital Inclusion – In or Out?
Tony Blair's 'Pledge 7 of 10' at the Labour Party Conference was about broadband. What does Digital Inclusion mean and why is it important? Join the debate, led by those with an ‘inside’ view of the political process: Nigel Heriz-Smith, Deputy Director, Broadband Policy, DTI | |
| 17:15 | Conference close and final networking |
