May 02, 2003
New Welcome

For anyone checking this weblog for the first time, or puzzled by the content, a welcome and a word of explanation.

I am a 20-year veteran of the television networks, now dividing my time between New York's Lower East Side and the lower east side of Mexico, the mountains and jungles of Chiapas. I still edit TV documentaries some part of the year. But I also pitch Maya-related stories to broadcast and cable outlets, with mixed success, and have produced reports on the archaeology and culture of the region. In the last 8 months I have been working with a number of people here, in Mexico and Guatemala, to protect the Usumacinta River, its ecology and the Maya ruins on its banks, from a proposed hydroelectric dam.

And I am concentrating on one project to bridge the digital divide in my New York neighborhood - a plan to provide free wireless broadband to the housing projects on the East River, from the future home of the Lower Eastside Girls Club, on Avenue D.

First priority: finding a company that can donate or deeply discount a significant amount of bandwidth, through fiber or wireless links.

Anybody have any suggestions?

Posted by Dave at May 02, 2003 11:09 AM