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Facilitating Public-Benefit Next-Generation Internet Development

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20050921 Internet2 Fall Member Meeting SIG:
 The Bethlehem Alliance: A Public Benefit Internet Development Effort in Palestine and Western New York, a Power Point presentation delivered to the Internet2 2005 Fall Member Meeting, Special Interest Group (SIG) for Supporting International Collaborations in Hard to Network Parts of the World, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, September 21, 2005.  (click for more)
20050921 Internet2 Fall Member Meeting SIG:
The Bethlehem Alliance: A Public Benefit Internet Development Effort in Palestine and Western New York, a presentation delivered to the Internet2 2005 Fall Member Meeting, Special Interest Group (SIG) for Supporting International Collaborations in Hard to Network Parts of the World, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, September 21, 2005.  This was the first public presentation on the Bethlehem Alliance that has been delivered to an audience outside of Western New York.  It was exceptionally well received.  Most of those present signed up for news reports and about half of those indicated active interest in collaboration.  Two other Internet2 groups expressed tentative interest in presentations at the Spring Member meeting. 

The SIG  seemed to tacitly agree that "Hard to Network Parts of the World" frequently suffer under a common constellation of severe problems including: poverty, hunger, poor health, disease, violent conflict and unstable corrupt government.  While there was insufficient time to explore specifics, there appeared to be a shared sense that advanced networks could have a mitigating effect on some of the worst problems.  Also, possibly, that public benefit applications might improve public awareness of and support for Internet2 and related efforts in our own country. 

The published presentation description was:

The Bethlehem Alliance: Small advanced network outreach and promotion projects based on direct public-benefit IP-VC applications in Palestine and Western New York.

For a Web-based PowerPoint presentation, click here.
For a MS PowerPoint 2003 file, click here.
For a Microsoft single-file Web Archive <.mht> file, click here.
For a 4-page MS Word Document version of the presentation points, click here.

This SIG met for the first time at the Internet2 Spring 2005 Member Meeting, in Washington, DC.  Minutes from that meeting have been posted on-line and reflect a tentative interest in considering the public benefit application space as part of the SIG mission and vision.  SIG members responded positively to short one-on-one descriptions of the Bethlehem Alliance project and vision and the SIG chair expressed interest in a presentation at the next (Fall 2005) SIG meeting.