Vi inoltro questo appello da guifi, la rete comunitaria catalana. Chiedono se qualcuno conosce esempi sia di reti municipali gratuite, sia di reti municipali interconnesse o estese con reti costruite dai cittadini. Per la seconda che ho detto mi e' venuto in mente solo il (tra l'altro dubbiamente legale) modello fon (vedi "trastevere wireless" o arezzo [1]), che tra l'altro non estende esattamente la connettivita' municipale... Ma magari qualcuno in lista conosce qualche altra realta' di rete mista municipale/autocostruita, magari senza fon di mezzo?
Ciao, Clauz [1] http://blog.fon.com/it/archive/news/arezzo-e-fon-realizzeranno-la-prima-rete-wifi-municipale-basata-sulla-condivisione-della-connessione-tra-utenti.html ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ramon Roca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:00 PM Subject: [wsfii-discuss] Battle for Barcelona To: Discuss list on the World Summit on Free Information Infrastructure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi there, Last month the city council of Barcelona announced their intention for installing free wi-fi internet access on 500 locations around the city using the city-owned buildings with a funding of about €4.5 million for deployment and 3 year maintenance. Initially those accesses are planned to be restricted for a certain amount of time, and installed only indoors. Because of that, and since we already have some deployment also on the city, we reacted by claiming to replicate the same model we've been using with other municipalities of the region, where we connect those internet access points into an open network and release some of the constraints for becoming a truly open and free access also outdoors by meshing at the streets or roofs. Initially from their site, was no intention for interconnecting networks or allowing to be extended by the civilians, they were arguing that they was not allowed to connect to do so by law, so first controversy is going around this discussion, but also on the politic opportunity for make this happen, and that is not used this king of cooperation with open networks in other countries within the EU. Not sure how this will end, but we can always use this experience to promote the concept of cooperation between civilian open networks and projects promoted by the administration which also uses free spectrum and provides affordable internet access. As said, we have been doing this already with many smaller municipalities around the region, but I'm wondering if someone can also know from another experiences in other countries around the EU for having even more arguments I.e. the Spanish regulatory Agency has noted that the EU Commision granted to the City of Prague for a wi-fi deployment... we want to collect as many similar examples as we can. In particular, we are interested in knwoing about: * Cities in the EU where there are some public outdoor free internet access (regardless if they are connected or not to open networks, so free as in beer also counts), with as many details of what do they have and where, regardless of how extense is the coverage (parks, some streets or squares, beaches... everything counts). * Cities in the EU where municipal networks are interconnected or extend civilian open networks (ref¡gardless of the technology). Please, if somebody has any information on this, let us know as soon as possible, since here the things are advancing so quicky and we are having many meetings with local politicians this days. Ramon. _______________________________________________ wsfii-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/wsfii-discuss
