Items tagged ‘Community-Technology’
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Building Cohesive Neighborhoods by Sharing Broadband
The high price of broadband service, lack of choice in broadband offerings, and uncertainty about the possible benefits and harms of digital partic... -
Chattanooga Focused on Offline Community Organizing Around Its Gigabit Network
Reflections on a visit to the “gig city”
Chattanooga, TN, is home to a world-class fiber-to-the-home broadband network. Owned and operated by the local electrical utility, EPB, the network... -
Pay Phones Go Wireless
New AmericaLast week, OTI announced its participation in LinkNYC, a plan to replace aging payphones in New York City with wi-fi hubs or “Links.” The implement... - article | November 05, 2014 | Open Technology Institute
Do-it-yourself antennas for Community Networks
For people around the world planning or building wireless networks, the cost and accessibility of the equipment can often be a challenge. There are... -
Scaling Community Technology
How to build healthier digital ecosystems
Diana Nucera Greta ByrumFor the past four years, the Open Technology Institute (OTI) and the Allied Media Projects (AMP) have been working with communities to build wirele... -
Community Technology for Resilience
Community technology projects can address social, physical, and economic forces that are compounded by crisis and disaster events. The community te... -
Mesh Bukavu – Designing a network from scratch
The Open Technology Institute recently discussed options for community wireless networks with Free Press Unlimited – a NGO based in the Netherlands... -
Community Networks for Resilience
As consumer choice in the broadband market has declined and the need for more resilient infrastructure has increased, community wireless networks a... -
The 2014 Allied Media Conference MagicNet: Third Time’s the Charm
OTI works with Digital Stewards to construct this year's conference-wide network. At the 2014 Allied Media Conference, the Open Technology Institut... -
Commotion Wireless As A Community Technology
The Open Technology Institute (OTI) gathered innovative community technologists and organizers from India and Nepal for the first international Com... -
OTI seeks partners for resilience project in New York City
When Superstorm Sandy hit Brooklyn, a community wireless mesh network in Red Hook helped residents tell people where help was needed and where it w... -
Case Study: Mesh Sayada
The Sayada community network, Mesh Sayada, is a collaboratively designed and built wireless network. The town of Sayada is located on the Tunisian ... -
Digital Stewardship and your community
New AmericaOTI has partnered with groups around the world to develop the concept of Digital Stewardship, and hopes to refine it as more communities adopt and ... -
OTI seeks new Field Operations Director
The Open Technology Institute is seeking a new Director of Field Operations. The DFO leads OTI's participatory research and technology implementati... -
Exploring Civic Innovation
Alissa Black Georgia BullenLast Tuesday I co-hosted an event at New America with the Open Technology Institute and the Asset Building Program that explored civic innovations ... -
My Big Campus
A school in rural India is using a community wireless network to enhance the learning environment for first generation learners
Hemant BabuTamarind Tree School and Nomad India Network are two non-profit organizations based in rural Dahanu in the western Indian State of Maharashtra in I... -
Digital Stewards Represent Detroit at the International Summit for Community Wireless in Berlin
New AmericaDigital Stewards from Detroit and Red Hook, Brooklyn join forces in Berlin at the International Summit for Community Wireless[a] This is cross-post... -
Building a Mesh Networks in Rural Somaliland
Daniel HastingsI had heard about mesh networking before I arrived in Somaliland, but had never been in the position to actually build a mesh network. When I accep... -
OTI wins prestigious partnership with the abc* Foundation for Commotion mesh network technology
We’re excited to announce that the ABC* Foundation has selected the Open Technology Institute (OTI) for a prestigious two-year partnership to deplo... -
Building Pop-up Mesh Networks
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 ...