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<FONT FACE="Verdana"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Thought I’d pass this along. It’s open to the public, and should be interesting.<BR>
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The Minnesota Global Forum<BR>
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<B>WI-FI in Minneapolis: <I>Public Ownership, or Private?<BR>
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The City of Minneapolis plans to allow a single, private company to own and operate a citywide wireless information network. Hundreds of other cities around the U.S. -- Saint Louis Park, Minnesota to Corpus Christi, Texas -- have chosen public ownership, and have been overwhelmingly satisfied with the choice.<BR>
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Join us at the Minnesota Global Forum to learn why publicly owned infrastructure is vital to Minnesota's information future.<BR>
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Speaker: Becca Vargo Daggett, Research Associate at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and co-author of <I>Who Will Own Minnesota's Information Highways?<BR>
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<B>Acadia Cafe, 1931 Nicollet (Nicollet & East Franklin)<BR>
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<B>Wednesday, January 18th, 5-7 p.m.<BR>
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<I>(Arrive in time to get refreshments!)<BR>
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<B>Sponsored by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy & the Minnesota International Directory (an IATP project) For more information, call Katie Fournier, 612/331-5615 or <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>kfournier1@mn.rr.com</U></FONT></B> <<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="mailto:kfournier1@mn.rr.com">mailto:kfournier1@mn.rr.com</a></U></FONT>> <BR>
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Ben Nelson<BR>
612.685.9116 cell<BR>
benmgroup@earthlink.net<BR>
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