Summit Sponsors

New America Foundation

New America Foundation is a post-partisan public policy institute based in Washington, DC and California dedicated to advancing new perspectives and solutions to the nation’s most pressing social, economic and foreign policy challenges. The purpose of New America's Wireless Future Program is to promote a more fair and efficient use of the airwaves in order to promote pervasive connectivity and unlock the full potential of the new wireless era. Since its inception in 2001, the Wireless Future Program has influenced and reframed the national debate over spectrum and wireless broadband policy in vital ways.

AAAS

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (or AAAS) is an organization that promotes cooperation between scientists, defends scientific freedom, encourages scientific responsibility and supports scientific education and science outreach for the betterment of all humanity. It is the world's largest general scientific society, with nearly 120,000 individual and institutional members in 2007, and publisher of the well-known scientific journal Science.

Acorn Active Media

The Acorn Active Media Foundation is an employee-run tech collective whose members are themselves activists; the projects we work on are chosen based on members' interest in working on them. Our commitment to our clients goes beyond typical business ethics -- we are personally committed to the work that employs us.

CUWin Foundation

CUWiN (the Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network) is a world-renowned coalition of wireless developers and community volunteers committed to providing low-cost, do-it-yourself, community-controlled alternatives to contemporary broadband models.