WIICT met on May 11 at the FCC. Thanks to all who attended. Thanks to Julie Garcia for providing meeting space for the group.

• The next WIICT meeting will be held on June 29 at noon at the CompassRose International Offices—888 17^th Street, NW, Suite 900. WIICT meetings will be held on a bi-monthly basis. In addition to holding some of these meetings at the FCC, we plan to have a number of them at different offices downtown in hopes it will increase participation. New meeting hosts are welcome!

• The next WIICT brownbag briefing will likely be held on June 1. Watch your e-mails for additional information on that meeting. The committee planning these brownbags will try to continue to have them on a monthly basis and will alternate between technology-focused and policy-focused topics. The committee will work to produce a longer-term schedule of these briefings for planning purposes.

• The group agreed that a full WIICT website is not needed at this time. CompassRose International plans to add a WIICT link to its website in coming weeks to include the calendar of upcoming WIICT meetings: www.compassroseintl.com

• Increasing participation: WIICT members are encouraged to review the e-mail list from this transmission and forward to Rayissa Manning (rmanning@compassroseintl.com) names of women not yet on our list who might be interested in participating. Additionally, the group addressing networking and mentoring opportunities will provide for the next meeting some draft "boilerplate language" on who WIICT is and what we do, so that might be added to all of our communications. Julie Garcia and Dianne Steinour will lead that effort.