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ILSR’s Christopher Mitchell Comments on Lafayette, Louisiana’s Community Owned High-Speed

| Written by Christopher | No Comments | Updated on Feb 5, 2012 The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/ilsrs-christopher-mitchell-comments-on-lafayette-louisianas-community-owned-high-speed/
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USA Today, February 5, 2012

In his article, journalist Rick Jervis turned to Christopher Mitchell on the development of community networks.

More than 150 local governments across the country have built or are planning to build cyber networks, says Christopher Mitchell of the Minneapolis-based Institute for Local Self-Reliance, a non-profit group that advocates community development and local access to technology.

Read the full article, with some interesting history about community technology development here.

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Christopher Mitchell is the Director of the Telecommunications as Commons Initiative with the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. He runs MuniNetworks.org as part of ILSR’s effort to ensure broadband networks are directly accountable to the communities that depend upon them. More

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