This report including a collection of case studies, entitled "Community-based Networks and Innovative Technologies: New models to serve and empower the poor" considers how the combination of community-driven enterprises and the new wave of wireless and related technologies may have the potential to extend networks and offer new services to poor communities and to empower them to develop solutions that are more focused on their own development needs.
case study
Microtelcos in Latin American Countries
Submitted by ethos on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 01:57.
Communication networks and services have not reached either the poor or the rural people of Latin America and the Caribbean. The conventional answer to this problem had been to offer public subsidies to incumbent operators to cover the difference between tariffs and cost-recovery levels.
RFP Heaven
Submitted by ethos on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 01:54.
RFP Heaven: A Compilation of Municipal RFPs. Muniwireless.com. November
27, 2004. http://www.muniwireless.com/reports/docs/rfpheaven-pdf.pdf
Is A Publicly Owned Minneapolis Information Network A Wise Investment?
Submitted by lauram on Mon, 10/01/2007 - 05:27.
Becca Vargo Daggett Director, Municipal Telecommunications Project -- Institute for Local Self-Reliance, February 2006
Localizing the U.S. Broadband Problem
Submitted by lauram on Mon, 10/01/2007 - 05:12.
Bleha, T.(2005). Down to the Wire. Foreign Affairs. May/June 2005. http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20050501faessay84311/thomas-bleha/down-to-...
Case Study: OneCommunity
Submitted by amelia on Fri, 07/13/2007 - 21:09.
OneCommunity http://www.onecleveland.org/ OneCommunity (formerly OneCleveland) is a nonprofit organization that serves public and nonprofit organizations (educational organizations, research institutions, local and regional governments, healthcare organizations, arts and cultural institutions) in Northeast Ohio by providing connections to its fiber network, and other networking and technology applications services. OneCommunity doesn't directly provide Internet connectivity to individuals or businesses.
