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<div class="gmail_default" style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">This is now also available on YouTube. <a href="http://bit.ly/2JVVRbp">http://bit.ly/2JVVRbp</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Lot of good stuff there, including keynotes from Blair Levin, Mignon Clyburn, and Sascha Meinrath.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">In many areas of the country there are laws, some might say ill-conceived, that prohibit municipalities from setting up their own high speed Internet infrastructure. But not all! Next Century Cities is doing a great job of co-ordinating officials and others that are facilitating such build outs. Learn more at today's event.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:12.8px;direction:ltr;margin:5px 15px 0px 0px;padding-bottom:5px"><div style="overflow:hidden"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#DDDDDD" style="width:691.818px;background:rgb(221,221,221)"><tbody><tr><td style="margin:0px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" style="width:671.818px;padding:10px"><tbody><tr><td style="margin:0px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div style="direction:ltr;max-width:600px;margin:0px auto;overflow:hidden"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"></div><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="width:600px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);max-width:1024px;min-width:320px;margin:0px auto"><tbody><tr><td style="margin:0px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="width:600px"><tbody><tr><td style="margin:0px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><p style="margin:0.7em 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(85,85,85);line-height:1.4em;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"></p><p style="margin:0.7em 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(85,85,85);line-height:1.4em;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><a href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/ncc-pittsburgh/" style="color:rgb(213,78,33);text-decoration:none;border-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(187,187,187)" target="_blank"><img class="m_4954546985035187353gmail-alignright m_4954546985035187353gmail-size-medium m_4954546985035187353gmail-wp-image-10412" src="https://i2.wp.com/isoc-ny.org/p2/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/NCC_PITTSBURGH.png?resize=300%2C169" alt="livestream" width="300" height="169" style="border:1px solid rgb(238,238,238);float:right;padding:2px;margin:0px 0px 2px 7px;display:block;clear:none;vertical-align:top;max-width:98%;height:auto"></a>Today,<span> </span><strong style="font-weight:bold">Monday July 23 2018</strong>,<span> </span><strong style="font-weight:bold"><a href="https://nextcenturycities.org/" style="color:rgb(52,120,227);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Next Century Cities</a></strong><span> </span>hosts the ‘<strong style="font-weight:bold"><a href="https://nextcenturycities.org/event/making-connections-regional-broadband-summit-and-city-vendor-connect/" style="color:rgb(52,120,227);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Making Connections: Regional Broadband Summit</a></strong>‘ in Pittsburgh. The conference is the first day of a two-day event that will bring together broadband champions, community leaders, and policy experts from federal, state, and local government to discuss today’s most pressing issues in broadband deployment. Expert panelists will feature community success stories, and will dig in to digital equity, network financing, 5G, rural solutions, and more. The event will be webcast live on the<span> </span><strong style="font-weight:bold"><a href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/ncc-pittsburgh/" style="color:rgb(52,120,227);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Internet Society Livestream Channel</a></strong>.</p><p style="margin:0.7em 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(85,85,85);line-height:1.4em;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="font-weight:bold">View on Livestream:<span> </span><a href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/ncc-pittsburgh/" style="color:rgb(52,120,227);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">https://<wbr>livestream.com/<wbr>internetsociety/ncc-<wbr>pittsburgh/</a></strong><br><strong style="font-weight:bold">Agenda:<span> </span><a href="https://nextcenturycities.org/wp-content/uploads/Making-Connections-Agenda.pdf" style="color:rgb(52,120,227);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">https://<wbr>nextcenturycities.org/wp-<wbr>content/uploads/Making-<wbr>Connections-Agenda.pdf</a></strong><br><strong style="font-weight:bold">Twitter: #NCCSummit<span> </span><a href="http://bit.ly/nccsummit" style="color:rgb(52,120,227);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/<wbr>nccsummit</a></strong></p><p></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" bgcolor="#efefef" style="width:600px;background-color:rgb(239,239,239);border-top:1px solid rgb(221,221,221)"><tbody><tr><td style="margin:0px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;border-top:1px solid rgb(243,243,243);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><p style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:12px;direction:ltr;line-height:1.4em;margin:0px 0px 10px"><br></p><p style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:12px;direction:ltr;line-height:1.4em;margin:0px"><strong></strong></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:small;display:inline"><strong>Permalink</strong></div><font color="#888888" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"> </span></font><br><a href="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/10411" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://isoc-ny.org/p2/10411</a><br><p style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:14px"></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" height="3" style="width:600px;background-image:url("https://s0.wp.com/i/emails/stripes.gif");background-repeat:repeat-x;background-color:rgb(67,164,208);height:3px"><tbody><tr><td style="margin:0px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br></td></tr></tbody></table><img alt="" border="0" src="http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?blog=10787942&post=9709&subd=isoc-ny.org&ref=&email=1&email_o=jetpack&host=jetpack.wordpress.com" width="1" height="1"></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div></div><div><br></div></font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><br class="m_4954546985035187353gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">
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