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Announcing the CloudAve Decent Access Initiave (DAI)

By on October 30, 2008

Here on CloudAve we spend a reasonable amount of time travelling to, from and
between conferences. We see lots of different hotels and attend many different
events.

Nice guy David Terrar posted complaining of the poor WiFi access at the Web 2.0 Expo in
Berlin recently, he also compared that to the frankly outstanding access at the
recent Office 2.0 Conference. I
attended Office 2.0 and commented on the excellent connectivity there.

Arguably even worse than poor conference access is being charged exorbitant
rates for Internet access at hotels – and this after paying exorbitant room
rates too. I’ve also commented about that situation.

Here on CloudAve we’re proponents and evangelists for living in the clouds –
poor Internet access is therefore anathema to us so we’re going to lead the
charge against the evil that is poor connectivity options.

So we’re announcing the CloudAve Decent Access Initiative – in which we
attempt to solve these problems via two strategies.

Voting with our wallets

From now on when travelling, the CloudAve team will have free Internet
connectivity as a minimum requirement when choosing hotels. If an option exists,
CloudAve will chose hotels providing free access and will shout far and wide
about said hotel. Where no option exists we’ll name and shame the guilty party
and advise the community just how much they charge for WiFi

Evangelising the future

Conference organisers have a lot on their plates – we understand that
Internet connectivity is just one of the things on the list. CloudAve however is
in a reasonable position to slowly influence conference organisers to put
connectivity higher up on their list of things to do.

Join us in the crusade!

As a caring and sharing bunch – we’re inviting all our peers to joins the DAI – what you have to do is obvious, and together we can show the power
of the collective voice.

United we stand!

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Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. His business interests include a diverse range of industries from manufacturing to property to technology. As a technology commentator he has a broad presence both in the traditional media and extensively online. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.

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7 responses to “Announcing the CloudAve Decent Access Initiave (DAI)”

  1. David Terrar
    David Terrar October 30, 2008 at 3:15 pm |

    Nice guy, eh…cool!… and cheers for the reference. As you might have guessed I agree completely, and I’ll be joining the DAI.

  2. David Terrar
    David Terrar October 31, 2008 at 8:47 am |

    I’ve been speaking at SOMESSO in Zurich… guess what? WiFi has been up and down like a wh…. you know what I mean. Will post on DAI later – hope we start a movement.

  3. Zoli Erdos
    Zoli Erdos October 31, 2008 at 9:25 am |

    @David,

    I suppose they did not find Swisscom in Zurich… like the Office 2.0 and Defrag teams did in the US 🙂

  4. Ben Kepes
    Ben Kepes October 31, 2008 at 9:25 am |

    @David – as I always say – united we stand, divided we fall

    @everyone

    GRT Grand in Chennai, India has free WiFi everywhere in the hotel