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James Farstad is President of rClient in Minneapolis. As project leader of Wireless Minneapolis, he has been substantially involved in the digital-inclusion component of the citywide Wi-Fi deployment.
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K. Anne-Rivers Forcke, Public Sector Market Manager, Human Ability and Accessibility Center, IBM Research, has chaired the Digital Inclusion Roundtable at the W2i Digital Cities Convention since its inception in 2006.
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Brian Mefford is Chief Executive Officer of Connected Nation in Washington, DC.
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Judith Stanford Miller, M.Ed., is President and Co-Founder of NinthWave Media in Toledo, Ohio.
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Peter Orne is editorial director of the Wireless Internet Institute and the Digital Inclusion Forum.
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Karen Archer Perry is principal of Karacomm, a Philadelphia-based digital inclusion consultancy.
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Sonja Reece is a councilmember and mayor pro-tem for the Town of Normal, Illinois. She is active with the National League of Cities' (NLC) Information Technology and Communications Steering Committee.
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Catherine Settanni runs the Digital Access Project in Minneapolis.
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Costis Toregas is President Emeritus, Public Technology Institute, and a lecturer at George Washington University.
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