Artist, eco-systems designer, tele-community planner. Relocated to Santa Fe in 2006 . Former Executive Director, Davis Community Network, CA (1996-2006). A founding Programs Director, Telluride Institute, and director of its InfoZone Project (first rural Internet POP, and first rural community wireless WAN), 1984-96. National Research Council, committee member on study and publication of "Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits". (Advisory) Board, Association for Community Networking. Personal projects studio and web site: RADLab. Richard Lowenberg began promoting the concept and term of "First Mile" telecommunications in the early 1990's; elaborating on the term in the 1995 "Rural Telecommunications Investment Guide" (see: www.radlab.com/tele-community/first%20mile.html ; scroll to bottom of page); in a presentation at the Ties That Bind Conference in Taos, NM, in July 1996; and later (2002) in a Gartner Group report for CENIC, leading to the naming of the California "First Mile" initiative.