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This site serves as a sort of switchboard for the activities that consume my interests and time. The various topics have a common theme in the search for ways to leverage the Internet as a tool for community building on local, regional, national, and global scales. Significant effort goes to containing anti-community forces working to preserve the disconnected status quo.

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Daniel Berninger

Toward Connectivity

"Love follows from connectivity and hate from disconnectivity." DB 11/02

"Prosperity across human history depended on only two things - communication and trust" Wright 8/01

"Our only weapons are truth, honesty, and openness." Chomsky, 10/02

"Whether you think you can or think you can't, your right" Ford 10/24

Mission
Close the distance between the actual and the possible global prosperity by overcoming obstacles to communication.

Open Communication
End of Telecom
Making World Safe_NOT
Save the World
Harmonious Contention
Public Interest Standard
Betrayal of Freedom
Comms Renaissance
Death of POTS
First Accounting Scandal
10 Telecom Policy Myths
Connectivity v. Territory


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Bio

Daniel Berninger - Washington, DC based independent technolgy analyst. Expert in technical and regulatory aspects of Internet enabled disruptive communications. Active in VoIP since 1995. Daniel worked on the original assessment of VoIP at Bell Laboratories and led early gateway deployments at Verizon , HP , and NASA after joining VocalTec Communications . He won the 1999 VON Pioneer Award as co-founder of the VON Coalition and worked on the founding of ITXC , Vonage , and Free World Dialup . Daniel gets quoted frequently on regulatory, antitrust, and VoIP matters - Business Week, WSJ, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, Bloomberg, Forbes, Associated Press, Dow Jones, Info World and trade press.
Contact Daniel via dan@danielberninger.com