2007 Ready2Net Programs: Program 1: "Web 2.0 Comes to Campus" Program 2: "Community Broadband — Facing the Real Issues" Program 3 : "Libraries, Coffee & Surfing"
Watch the entire Mike Wesch Video The Machine is Us/ing Us www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g	Program 1: "Web 2.0 Comes to Campus" Webcast Date: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 Coined by O'Reilly Media in 2004, Web 2.0 is defined as “the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform. Chief among these is: Build applications that harness network effects to get better the more people to use them.” Wikipedia states that Web 2.0 “refers to a perceived or proposed second generation of Internet-based services—such as social networking sites, wikis, communication tools, and folksonomies—that emphasize online collaboration and sharing among users.” Among the most striking aspects of Web 2.0: the more users on the network, the more valuable and powerful the network becomes – which represents the transition in control from provider to user. Consider YouTube, FaceBook and MySpace as key examples that shift control of content from provider to users. Is Web 2.0 yet another wave of IT Industry jargon? Or must campuses pay attention? What will it mean to “harness network efforts” to enhance campus resources and services and to improve student learning opportunities? Corporations are taking a broad look at Web 2.0 as a way to transform IT resources and services. Do the corporate conversations about Web 2.0 apply to higher education? And if so, in what ways? At what costs? And with what benefits for students, faculty, and institutions? This R2N program examines the shift in Internet platform, content and users, and serves to inform CIOs, the IT community, faculty, presidents, provosts, and trustees about the challenges Web 2.0 places on the campus’s virtual space. Host:       Casey Green Founding Director, The Campus Computing Project             Speakers:     Mark Armstrong Vice President, Oracle Student Products Jim Edmunds President and CEO, Ingeniux Corporation< Gordon Freedman VP Education Strategy, Blackboard, Inc. Gilbert Gonzales CIO, California State University, Monterey Bay Alan Levine Vice President, Community and CTO for the New Media Consortium (NMC) Rich Pickett CIO, San Diego State University James Garner Ptaszynski, Ph.D Senior Director, World Wide Higher Education Strategy, Microsoft Corporation Sandra Rotenberg Access Services Librarian, Solano Community College Back to Top
Facing the Real Issues — Muni-WiFi Nationwide	Program 2: "Community Broadband — Facing the Real Issues" Webcast Date: Friday June 1, 2007 Ready2Net welcomes members of the Wireless Communications Alliance/WCA and the Personal Broadband Industry Association/PBIA. LIVE from the Fourth Annual The Wireless Community & Mobile User Conference Featuring Industry, Education and Community Leaders in Monterey, California From Houston to San Francisco, to Tempe, to LA and Philadelphia, the possibilities of community WiFi are capturing the imagination of the public and private sectors. Economic development, education, equity and access, public safety and improved government services are at the top of the list for justifying broadband deployments in urban and rural America. Nonetheless, community wide broadband has presented a plethora of issues that local governments must consider, such as governance and finances, equity and access, and ID Management and Authentication. Moreover, there are obstacles to rollout, including sustainable business models to compete in what has been estimated as the new $500 billion dollar a year marketplace. This Ready2Net program involves expert panelists representing industry, government, and the public in an open dialogue as they review the realities of current deployments and share their experiences and views about solutions to the issues that Community Broadband faces. Host:       Gary Bolles Editorial Director, Muni Wireless Magazine & President, Microcast Communications             Speakers:     Larry Alder Project Manager, Mountain View, Google Ellis Berns Economic Development Manager, City of Mountain View Stephen Blum President, TellUs Venture Associates Rick Ellinger President, Wireless Communications Alliance & Joint Venture Silicon Valley-Disaster Preparedness Initiative Gilbert Gonzales CIO, California State University, Monterey Bay Heather Hudson, Ph.D., J.D. Director, Communications, Technology Management Program, University of San Francisco Patrick J. Leary AVP WISP Markets, Alvarion Stefan Lopatkiewicz, Esq. Dorsey & Whitney, LLP Anne Neville Manager, CA Broadband Initiative CA Business, Transportation and Housing Agency Dr. Rollin C. Richmond President, Humboldt State University Chris Vein CIO & Exec. Director, Dep't of Telecommunications & Information Services, City of San Francisco     Back to Top
	Program 3: "Libraries, Coffee & Surfing" Webcast Date: Thursday, June 14, 2007 The library’s longstanding function as the academic center of a campus has shifted. Many libraries, while embracing the use of computers, wireless connectivity, and extensive online collections, have added digital media centers, and social and group workspaces in their portfolios of services. Librarians now define the library as an encompassing, multi-functional facility and virtual space centered on learning, the discovery of information, and collaboration. Students and faculty conduct research from the library’s local collections as well as those found on authoritative and public sources of the Internet. Coffee stands, sit-down cafés, and other social spaces demonstrate this shift towards accommodating the requirements of library patrons. But this “new” library faces many challenges. The use of search engines has allowed companies to exchange business intelligence, or in some cases, advertising revenues for free services. Recently, Google has offered free email, word processing, and website services, in exchange for marketing data. This represents a focused business opportunity for many Silicon Valley companies, which are interested in understanding how to keep the “long tail” of marketing, research, and services connected to users. Other challenges that libraries face include access to an array of copyrighted and non-copyrighted materials, which have created new forms of advocacy. Publishers and librarians work to advise technology companies about the implications of digital rights, copyright practices, accessibility issues, and the next generation of collections. These will be used by the increasing numbers of students who have yet to enter the physical library, but who regularly use the Internet as the complimentary and competing path and source for content in an age of DRM, P2P, and FairPlay. This R2N program will explore the library’s changing and often challenging roles—including benefits to its users, possibilities for its future, and threats to the library that we know today. Host:       Casey Green Founding Director, The Campus Computing Project             Speakers:     Leslie Guy Buckalew Director, World Wide Higher Education, Adobe Systems, Inc. Gilbert Gonzales CIO, California State University, Monterey Bay Karen Howell Director of the University of Southern California's Leavey Library Michael D. Miller Dean of Library Services, Cal Poly State University Art Pasquinelli Education Market Strategist, Sun Global Education and Research Group Sandra Rotenberg Access Services Librarian, Solano Community College Rob Spindler University Archivist and Head of the Department of Archives and Special Collections Arizona State University Libraries Ginny Steel University Librarian, UC Santa Cruz Steve Watkins Coordinator of Library Technology Development at California State University, Monterey Bay     Back to Top

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