community wireless

Courtesy of ZFellow Sean McLaughlin and the Eureka Times-Standard:

Access Humboldt
was represented in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Wednesday to receive the
“Community Broadband Wireless Network of the Year” Award for the
Digital Redwoods initiative and to promote “A Public Interest Internet
Agenda.”

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski visited San Francisco recently as part of a “listening tour” about best practices in how to use and expand access to broadband.

ZFellow Michael McCarthy, a member of the city of San Francisco’s Department of Technology, played a key role in hosting the event.

We recently received an email and photos from one of our grantees the Tribal Digital Village. The Southern California Tribal Digital Village is a collaborative of eighteen recognized Indian tribes and run one of the largest wireless deployments in California.

As you can tell from the photos, their wireless antennas and equipment also happened situated in the fire zone, namely the Poomacha Fire.

So I realize that I may be a little behind the times, but I was so thrilled this weekend to find out that I can use my Nintendo DSLite to surf the internet.  Using the new internet browser game insert, we gamers can sip our cappuccinos and surf the web all at the same time.  The browser connects to any o

Tomorrow July 10th and on Wednesday July 11th the San Francisco Board of Supervisors will vote on whether to approve the City’s proposed agreement with Earthlink and Google to provide FREE wireless internet access to the City of San Francisco.

In the fall of 2005, the city of Sacramento itself had unsuccessfully attempted to deploy municipal wireless.  Local non profit and community leaders got wind of what appeared to be a wireless strategy that was not inclusive of local community needs, and, rightly so, intervened. 

The San Francisco Chronicle writes about Taipei’s wireless bubble in today’s business section. As measured by the number of antennas, Taipei’s wireless rollout is the largest in the world, and according to the article—adoption is slower than expected.