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. [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/ncc-pittsburgh/> Today, *Monday July 23 2018*, *Next Century Cities <https://nextcenturycities.org/>* hosts the ‘*Making Connections: Regional Broadband Summit <https://nextcenturycities.org/event/making-connections-regional-broadband-summit-and-city-vendor-connect/>*‘ 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 *Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/ncc-pittsburgh/>*. *View on Livestream: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/ncc-pittsburgh/ <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/ncc-pittsburgh/>* *Agenda: https://nextcenturycities.org/wp-content/uploads/Making-Connections-Agenda.p... <https://nextcenturycities.org/wp-content/uploads/Making-Connections-Agenda.pdf>* *Twitter: #NCCSummit http://bit.ly/nccsummit <http://bit.ly/nccsummit>* *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/10411 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -