The Bethlehem Alliance
Facilitating Public-Benefit Next-Generation Internet Development

First known Palestinian inter-institutional H.323 videoconference using the Palestinian public commercial Internet infrastructure.  Photo shows Dr. Jad Issac, at ARIJ, in conference with Mr. Philip Daoud, at Bethlehem University.  The conference took place on November 1, 2004 at approximately 1400 local time. 

Selected News and Status Updates

• 20050926 Presentation to Internet2 SIG on-line.  Very well received.  More likely to follow at Spring Member Meeting.

• 20050218 The Bethlehem Alliance: Overview, History, Plans and Status:  A one-page project snapshot with an optional captioned photo for publication (high resolution copy available by request).  Huge thanks to Hank Bromley, at UB, for his help reducing this to one page.

• 20050202 Al Quds Video Clips:  Video clips of Al Quds University's historic first connection to the global next generation Internet are now on-line.

• 20050115 Letter to All:  A brief introduction and explanation of the site and its status

• 20050115 Advisory Group Meeting Notes and Afterthoughts:   The first meeting of a steering and advisory working group for Bethlehem Alliance WNY efforts took place on 1/13/2005.  These are my personal notes and afterthoughts following the meeting.

• 20050115 Bethlehem Alliance WNY --  Advisory & Steering Working Group Support Page:  Notes, updates and planning materials for the newly formed Bethlehem Alliance WNY Advisory and Steering Working Group are now being assembled on-line. 

• 20050114 WNY-HPNVI Site Archive On-Line: The last production WNY-HPNVI site archive is now on-line.

• 20050116 Draft Navigation Topics: Preliminary site structure outline

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• Selected News and Status Updates:  Archives

Al Quds achieves first known Palestinian connection to Megaconference and global next-generation Internet.  See clips.

WNY-HPNVI  Sandbox head-end.  The Sandbox is a shared public IP-video Infrastructure maintained for public benefit application trials and development.