Tune in: F2C

Today is the first day of F2C: Freedom to Connect, a conference focused on issues relevant to network neutrality.  The entire conference will be audiocast, so please join in here: http://freedom-to-connect.net/stream.html

Colin Rhinesmith, producer of AudioBerkman, and Daniel Krawcyzk are interviewing F2C panelists and speakers.  You can listen to their interviews from AudioBerkman.  Click here to visit AudioBerkman. Click here to read about their encounter with Joe van Eaton.

The conference schedule is available here.
The conference speaker list is available here.

Conference organizer, host, and Berkman fellow David Isenberg explains why F2C:

"I decided to organize F2C: Freedom to Connect last year because the discussion of Internet access was framed in network- centric and market oriented terms, as a a privilege, subject to private commercial arrangements and the inexorable trend towards a winner-take-all marketplace..  I wanted to frame Internet  in a more user-oriented, citizen-oriented way, as a fundamental right, an extension of Constitutional Freedoms like Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press.
Network Neutrality is one of the policy issues we will discuss at F2C: Freedom to Connect.  I see it as just one small, complex, tactical piece of the Internet Freedom picture in my view, much as the Koyoto Treaty is to a sustainable planetary strategy for pollution and energy use.  Specifically, even though Network Neutrality is a great idea, a lightweight, easily enforceable, Network Neutrality rule is not easy to write. Internet Freedom includes a much wider range of issues -- like vibrant competition, multi-modal connectivity, new technology, spectrum re-regulation, the whole idea of common carriage and the role of government in infrastructure."

For conference updates, please check out the MediaPolicyBlog.