Jay April Speaks on Maui, Hawaii Broadband Internet Issues WebEx Videoconference

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Happy Independence Day!

 

 

We are on tomorrow for our lunch (Hawaii time) discussion with featured guest Jay April, CEO of Akaku Community Television.   We will be discussing community involvement in using and improving broadband services.   As you know Hawaii’s Internet connectivity is ranked towards the bottom for the U.S. and the U.S is only in the middle of the pack globally.    With our location in the middle of the Pacific, it is critical that we have top rate Internet.   However, we have incumbent infrastructure providers that have a virtual monopoly and so no incentive to improve.  Some communities are by-passing the large incumbents and creating community-owned systems.   These are having mixed results with N. Carolina manipulated by the incumbents to create a law prohibiting community-owned systems.   This issue is now being championed by Lawrence Lessig founder of the Creative Commons and FixCongressFirst.org.

 

Meanwhile Akaku has received a Federal Broadband Technology Opportunities Program grant.  Take a deeper dive on this tomorrow.

 

Those of you on Maui have the option of bring a brownbag or pot luck to the MEDB Don Malcolm Conference Room.  Otherwise, join us via Webex.  Those who come in person are welcome to bring laptops, but bring headphones or take advantage of the speakerphone set up that we will be using.  Remember the default is to mute microphones so as to avoid feedback.  

 

We also can handle up to six video streams at a time rotating based on who is speaking.  So exit Skype and other video apps and enable your video in the participants window in Webex.

 

To invite others to join, copy and paste everything below into your invitation. 

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Meeting information 

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Topic: Conversation with Jay April on “Communities and Improving Broadband” 

Date: Tuesday, July 5, 2011 

Time: 11:30 am, Hawaii Time (Honolulu, GMT-10:00) 

Meeting Number: 578 181 709 

Meeting Password: aloha 

 

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To start or join the online meeting 

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Go to https://coolprojects.webex.com/coolprojects/j.php?ED=176230502&UID=487746212&PW=NOWYzNWRjMzcx&RT=MiMy 

 

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Audio conference information 

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Call-in toll number (US/Canada): 1-408-792-6300 

 

Access code:578 181 709 

 

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For assistance 

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1. Go to https://coolprojects.webex.com/coolprojects/mc 

2. On the left navigation bar, click “Support”. 

To add this meeting to your calendar program (for example Microsoft Outlook), click this link: 

https://coolprojects.webex.com/coolprojects/j.php?ED=176230502&UID=487746212&ICS=MS&LD=1&RD=2&ST=1&SHA2=Ztyc1H1rbv8e4cmuAVAC0nJdd2ZgS3LPRNCg2XTVDFA= 

 

To check whether you have the appropriate players installed for UCF (Universal Communications Format) rich media files, go to https://coolprojects.webex.com/coolprojects/systemdiagnosis.php. 

 

http://www.webex.com 

 

CCM:+14087926300×578181709# 

 

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In 1995 At Maui High Performance Computing Center The Maui Scientific Analysis & Visualization of the Environment Program was first incubated. I was the principal investigator of this independant research project which was a joint development between MHPCC, Silicon Graphics Computers (SGI) & NKO.ORG. Using SGI Cosmo Worlds software, we pioneered the development of Internet based 3D virtual reality GIS based interactive worlds. In 1996 with a network of seven high performance SGI workstations we pioneered development of live streaming MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Real Video and QuickTime Streaming Server utilizing Kassenna MediaBase software. In Maui 2002 we pioneered and tested the first wireless live streaming video using laptop computers and Maui Sky Fiber's portable 3G wireless device. In Maui we pioneered live streaming video using usb modems from AT&T , Verizon as well as live streaming from iPhone 3 over 3G wireless networks. Today The Maui S.A.V.E. Program has diversified into storm tracking including visualization and analysis of large, memory-intensive gridded data sets such as the National Hurricane Center's wind speed probabilities. I volunteer my services to numerous Disaster Services Organizations. In June 2013 I returned from Hurricane Sandy deployment as a computer operations service associate with the Disaster Services Technology Group assisting as The American Red Cross migrated from a Disaster Response Operation to Long Term Recovery Operations. Pioneering the production/editing and Internet distribution of HD video to sites like Youtube.com and Vimeo.com we are shining the light towards environmental and peace efforts of humans across the globe. Since 1992 I have held the vision of establishing Maui, Hawaii as the environmental sciences center of the world. After His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet came to Maui This vision has expanded to establishing Maui as the environmental & peace center of the world.

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