Will Hawkins

Senior Technologist, Open Technology Institute

Will Hawkins is a senior technologist for the Open Technology Institute's Commotion project. Before joining the New America Foundation, he worked at the United States Naval Research Laboratory Center for Computational Computer Science. He received his undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Computer Science/Mathematics at Furman University in South Carolina. He is current pursuing a Masters of Divinity at Wesley Theological Seminary.

Expertise:

Technology
Community Wireless
Mesh Technology

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Featured Publications

Publications

article | June 16, 2014 |

Commotion Wireless As A Community Technology

Andy Gunn Bincy Ninan-Moses Ryan Gerety Will Hawkins

The Open Technology Institute (OTI) gathered innovative community technologists and organizers from India and Nepal for the first international Com...
article | April 18, 2014 |

Case Study: Mesh Sayada

Andy Gunn Ryan Gerety Will Hawkins

The Sayada community network, Mesh Sayada, is a collaboratively designed and built wireless network. The town of Sayada is located on the Tunisian ...
article | October 30, 2013 |

Building Pop-up Mesh Networks

Andy Gunn Ryan Gerety Will Hawkins

The Open Technology Institute recently conducted a training on how to build pop-up mesh networks using Commotion. Our goal was to quickly deploy a ...