Items tagged ‘digital-stewards’
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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... -
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... -
OTI Proposes Wireless Networks for Resilience in NYC
The Open Technology Institute has proposed a series of mesh networks and community-based trainings to make New York City more resilient to the effe... -
Call for Proposals: International Commotion Mesh Wireless Projects
New AmericaThe Open Technology Institute is pleased to announce its first call for proposals from groups interested in implementing Commotion-based wireless m... -
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... -
A Network Model of Broadband Adoption: Using Twitter to Document Detroit Future
Preliminary Analysis by the Open Technology Institute
From 2010 to 2012, the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition (DDJC) conducted a federally-funded training program in digital media that they called “De... -
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 ... -
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...