[Davisgig] Innovation with Internet in Davis, CA

[Robert Nickerson]

Hi Davisites

WELCOME to the Davis GIG email list.

Well, at some point you have expressed interest in getting  Gigabit 
Fiber infrastructure installed in Davis, so I have created this list as 
one of the tools we can use to explore this concept, and see if we can 
all bring this to fruition.
Attached is a document I wrote up in response to the Fiber Internet  
(Request for Expression of Interest) RFEI the City of Davis put out in 
May at the same time the Innovation Park RFEI went out.  At the time, I 
was trying to convince, a larger Stockton based Phone Company to join me 
in putting in a response, so please excuse the somewhat informal tone of 
this document, as that was its first incarnation.

Omsoft never put in a response, and I'm not aware of other responses, 
and time has passed. Since then, lots of cities seem to be interested in 
putting their own networks in, and are committing themselves to 
providing this infrastructure to their residents, and from my point of 
view our city would be well suited to do the same. The Internet duoopoly 
is tightening its hold on things, and net neutrality issues aside,  our 
government's ability to protect the privacy, affordability and integrity 
of our telecommunications has degraded.

Putting in this network will do many positive things for our City, but 
its going to take a major group effort to get this worked out and 
approved. I also want to make sure its  all reasonable, do-oable and it 
will be a good thing for our community, and so I'm asking you to take a 
look at this proto white paper I've  put together  and think critically 
on it, and provide feedback.

If you have feedback, this list would be the place  for it, and I think 
in time if it passes this first test, we should meet at Sudwerk or 
something and work on figuring out next steps.

For now , lets take this as a thought experiment and  go from there.

Here are some links pertinent to this topic

A coalition of Cities doing this
http://nextcenturycities.org/

A way to fund it
http://crowdfiber.com/

If others have more links, please share and discuss. I look forward to 
working with you all to get this going in our city.

Best
-- 
Rob Nickerson

CEO
Om Networks
UCD Class of 96
C: 530-848-3865

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