Community Wifi

Created: 2005-01-14

Status: Not Taken Forward (Incubated)

The activities detailed here fall outside of the OKFN's core competencies and there was no significant degree of support among members for taking this forward.

--RufusPollock 2007-01

Aims

  • to support local community wifi networks (eg @ Freedom Bookshop, Whitechapel - PL)
  • encourage wider uptake
  • conduct research into long-term implications of wifi networks, notably funding: corporate, governmental, services tax
  • promote rural broadband access

Methods:

  • wifi 'publicity stunt': Trafalgar Sq? Westminster Sq?
  • Westminster council: have they already set up infrastructure?
  • economic analysis to demonstrate efficiency of model.
  • lobby as necessary.

Issues:

  • interference / licensing of frequencies
  • security

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