Items tagged ‘community-wireless’
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New Digital Stewards Program Developing Community Networks in Chicago
The Open Technology Institute is pleased to support the efforts of the Woodlawn Broadband Expansion Partnership to bring gigabit connectivity to un... - 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... -
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... -
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 ...