Last night, the city of Sacramento voted to adopt a resolution deploying a municipal wireless network.  This establishes Sacramento as the first municipal wireless city in the greater Central Valley offering free wireless services.  Congratulations!

It was, as a representative of the consortium responsible for the buildout stated, a "harmonious" decision reached by council members.

After 1 1/2 years of community involvement, led by our grantee, Sacramento Region Community Foundation, the issues of digital divide, digital inclusion, and the techology needs of the underserved were finally addressed in the resolution. 

This is the beginning to becoming a fully digital wired city, but the hard work starts now.

Our grantee, and hopefully other community leaders, will step forward and begin the programmatic work to ensure that underserved members take advantage of the opportunities that access to such a network can achieve.

Hmm...anyone out in SacTown read up on our new ZD 2.0 grantmaking guidelines where wireless access is one of our technology strategies?

For more information and detail on what happened, check out former Z Fellow Paul Lamb's blog