WiFi & Beyond Chair Morley Winograd e-mails a copy of "Fast & Easy: the Future of WiFi & Beyond in the City of Los Angeles" to Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn using WiFi at Pershing Square

City of Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Doane Liu accepted the document on behalf of Mayor Hahn by mobile phone, his message going out to the crowd over the local public address system.

You can listen to the remarks of Los Angeles Councilmember Jan Perry and WiFi & Beyond Executive Panel chair Morley Winograd, as well as those of Deputy Mayor Doane Liu, by clicking here.

You can listen to an interview with Councilmember Perry on this occasion by clicking here.

You can listen to an interview with Verge Wireless Networks' President Carlo MacDonald, whose company installed the WiFi at the Pershing Square hot-zone, recorded at this event, by clicking here.

To listen to a follow-up interview, recorded later today, with Morley Winograd, chair of the WiFi & Beyond Executive Panel, click here.

To listen to a follow-up interview, recorded later today, with Curt Gibbs, Senior Resource Development Officer at the City of Los Angeles' Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA), and a member of the WiFi & Beyond Executive Panel, click here.

To listen to a follow-up interview recorded tomorrow with Thera Bradshaw, General Manager of the City of Los Angeles' Information Technology Agency (ITA), and a member of the WiFi & Beyond Executive Panel, click here.

To read comments by a spokesman for SBC cautioning the City of Los Angeles to be "very careful before leaping into these sorts of projects," click here.

Curt Gibbs, Senior Resource Officer at the City of LA's Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA), which oversaw the installation of WiFi at the Pershing Square hot zone, and Thera Bradshaw, General Manager of the City of LA's Information Technology Agency (ITA)

For additional coverage of the "Fast & Easy: the Future of WiFi & Beyond in the City of Los Angeles" launch event, visit Eric Richardson's blogdowntown web site.

All photos on this page were created by City of Los Angeles staff and are in the public domain. The ones above were taken by Curt Gibbs at CRA, and the one below by Terry Halberg at ITA. For more launch event photos, click here.

Here's another shot of the WiFi & Beyond team at Pershing Square this morning:

The City of Los Angeles' WiFi & Beyond team
Photo credit: City of Los Angeles, Information Technology Agency

 

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