Robert Cannon is Senior Counsel for Internet Issues in the Office of Plans and Policy of the Federal Communications Commission. Prior to this position, he was Deputy Director of the FCC's Y2K Task Force. He is also the Founder of the Washington Internet Project, a pro-bono project dedicated to promoting awareness of and participation in federal regulatory developments that affect the Internet <www.cybertelecom.org>. Mr. Cannon moderates the Cybertelecom-l listserv and edits the e-newsletter CybertelecomNews. His article on the Communications Decency Act was published in the Federal Communications Law Journal, cited before the Supreme Court in Reno v. ACLU, and republished in an anthology on the First Amendment. His article on the FCC's Computer Inquiries Proceedings is being published as an FCC Working Paper, in Catholic University's Law Journal Commlaw Conspectus, and as an anthology by MIT Press. He is a Legal Columnist for Boardwatch Magazine and has spoken at widely. He was the creator and co-chair of the Federal Communication Bar Association's Online Communications Committee. In 1993, he completed a judicial clerkship with Judge Steffen Graae in D.C. Superior Court. He can be reached at cannon@cybertelecom.org.

Dr. Andrew Cohill is an internationally recognized information architect.  Cohill is the Director of the Blacksburg Electronic Village (BEV).  The Blacksburg Electronic Village is the most successful community network project in the world.  More than 80% of the town population is connected directly to the Internet via modems and high speed connections.  More than two-thirds of the local business community uses the Internet to advertise products and services. Cohill is responsible for the technical planning and development of electronic village services, and supervises a technology group and an operations group that manages the BEV office and administrative services.  He directs the long range planning effort for the group, and serves as an advocate for networking in  the university and around the Commonwealth of Virginia.  The Blacksburg Electronic Village is a model for the development of community networks around the country, and much of Cohill's efforts are related to teaching others how to create healthy electronic communities. He is an editor and author of Community Networks:  Lessons Learned from Blacksburg, Virginia, now in its second edition. Cohill is active professionally in the  Environmental Design Research Association, the Association for Community Networking,  and the Association for Computing Machinery.  He is the President of the AFCN, and co-founder of the New Democracy Center

Gene Crick is Executive Director of the TeleCommunity Resource Center (TCRC) working to develop community Internet tools and networks, especially in underserved areas. This 501c3 nonprofit brought free public Internet access to twenty-five Texas towns and cities. Now, TCRC's 1999-2000 national program includes resources and outreach to support local CN builders, plus working with a multi-million dollar grant project designed to bring online network resources to communities throughout Texas.  Mr. Crick is also Executive Director of the Texas Internet Service Providers Association, the country's largest regional ISP association, and of the Metropolitan Austin Interactive Network (MAIN), one of the country's oldest and most successful online community networks and of the  Electronic Frontiers - Texas, and winner of the 1998 Susan B. Hadden award for public service in the field of telecommunications.  He works with and serves on federal and international boards and commissions and has won numerous awards for leadership in community networks, including a Presidential Medal for work done on the Y2K project.

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