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Archive for February, 2006

More Research Promoting Community Internet

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

A new Pew Center Study adds to the growing canon of research supporting Community Internet as a vital social resource.

From the report: Our evidence calls into question fears that social relationships — and community — are fading away in America. Instead of disappearing, people’s communities are transforming: The traditional human orientation to neighborhood- and village-based […]

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Do we need more WiFi in Lincoln Park?

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

Jon Van, writing in today’s Chicago Tribune, references a study that shows Chicago is already a pretty “wireless-ed” town, raising questions about the government’s plan to cover the entire city with WiFi access:

[Wireless analyst Tim] Kridel said that wireless broadband signals are fairly easy for computer users to find in the city’s most […]

Posted in General, Municipal broadband |

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Network World profiles the WCN

Friday, February 17th, 2006

Sandra Gittlen writes in Network World:

In Chicago, an organization called Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) is using wireless connections to provide Internet access to families in low-income neighborhoods. Through the project, called Wireless Community Network, CNT is creating a rooftop network of wireless repeater nodes for more than 800 households in four neighborhoods. […]

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Power to the people

Friday, February 17th, 2006

Across the country, organizations use network technology to empower the less fortunate.

From Network World, February 6, 2006

By Sandra Gittlen

For Vakil Kuner, the work involved in setting up and tearing down a secure wireless network to support more than two dozen government agencies and private organizations for a single day is well worth it.

Kuner, IT director […]

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It’s a Wi-Fi kind of town

Friday, February 17th, 2006

From the Chicago Tribune, February 17, 2006

Chicago seeks proposals for citywide Internet access

By Jon Van Tribune staff reporter

February 17, 2006

The City of Chicago wants to blanket its streets and neighborhoods with a wireless Internet signal, granting residents and visitors access to the Web wherever they are–on streets, in homes, offices and shopping malls.

Chicago’s chief information officer […]

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