Sascha Meinrath
Research Director, Wireless Future Program
Telecom & Technology
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Wireless Future Program
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Sascha Meinrath is Research Director of the Wireless Future Program at the New America Foundation. An expert on community wireless networks and municipal broadband, Mr. Meinrath also coordinates the Open Source Wireless Coalition, a global partnership of open source wireless integrators, researchers, implementers, and companies dedicated to the development of open source, interoperable, low-cost wireless technologies. He is a regular contributor to MuniWireless.com, the leading source for municipal wireless news and information, and to Government Technology’s Digital Communities. From 2004 to 2006, he was a policy analyst for Free Press in Washington, D.C. In 2006, he was elected Vice President of CTCNet, a U.S.-based network of more than 1,000 organizations committed to improving the educational, economic, cultural, and political life of their communities through technology.
Mr. Meinrath has also worked with the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) and is the President of the Acorn Active Media Foundation, which engages in open source software, website, and technical development in support of the Global Justice Movement. He is the founder of the Ethos Group and a co-founder of the CUWiN Foundation. A graduate of Yale University, he holds a master’s degree in psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is a Telecommunications Fellow at the University of Illinois, where he is completing his Ph.D. on community empowerment and the impact and interaction of participatory media, wireless communications, and emergent technologies.
Mr. Meinrath has also worked with the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) and is the President of the Acorn Active Media Foundation, which engages in open source software, website, and technical development in support of the Global Justice Movement. He is the founder of the Ethos Group and a co-founder of the CUWiN Foundation. A graduate of Yale University, he holds a master’s degree in psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is a Telecommunications Fellow at the University of Illinois, where he is completing his Ph.D. on community empowerment and the impact and interaction of participatory media, wireless communications, and emergent technologies.
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