Digital Stewards installing WiFi
Digital Stewards installing WiFi
More power to them.
A healthy digital ecosystem that exposes more people to EMF’s? Hmmm. Maybe it’s a plot to produce more chronic diseases in the poor.
From a customer base which won’t even pay their water bills. Good luck on the sustain and maintain end.
The internet is already decentralized. It has no central controlling authority, but bammy-$hitface tried to take ownership and control of the internet, as all marxist fascist dictators do.
There are already elements in place in the internet that seek to equalize, by giving things free to the “poor” and by taking from the “rich” (I.E., Americans.).
If this idiot gives the people of Detroit free wifi and internet access, they will use it for porn, to boast about their rapes and murders, and to talk about illegal drug deals.
Looks like a nice secure location to install infrastructure. I’m sure the equipment will be safe there. /s
Incentivizing the gibsmedat culture to obtain wifi enabled equipment...
by any means possible.
All for folks taking the initiative to do such an endeavor, but to associate internet access to human rights is infantile.
Is Vegas booking odds on how fast that equipment is stolen?
“a city that has 1,000 mbps and the people with the least [amount] of resources only have 10? I think that causes a huge problem”
Really. 10 mbps is more than enough bandwidth for a single user, or even two or three users.
Building their own internet??? Not even close. Providing WiFi is not “creating an internet”.
I think this is actually a very good idea. Not just for them, but for many communities around the US.
The most important part is that it does not have a direct connection to the Internet, but is in fact an *Intranet*. While there will be Internet connectivity as well, it will be on different systems, so there is a clean break between it and the Intranet.
Such Intranets can be much more secure, so surveillance by governments and corporations is minimized. (The voyeurs DO NOT like this, so would quickly scream that it is or will be used by “drug dealers and pedophiles”. Nonsense. Privacy is not, nor should be, a crime.)
Local information. No advertisements. Personal information can be exchanged. And so much more.
I’d trade my 1gps satellite internet for 10 mbs dsl any day of the week. It’s the ping that kills you.
“We risk our human rights if we don’t take ownership and control over the internet in a way that is decentralized,” said Diana Nucera, director of the Detroit Community Technology Project. Nucera, also known as Mother Cyborg
This just does not make sense.
Human rights, take ownership and control then decentralized, cyborg
10 mbps is definitely a first-world problem. Half of the time I’m struggling along at 600 kbps out here in the country. It’s probably racism.
i looked at their website; as far as i can tell this is fundamentally a grant scam so five “employees” can suck off the government teat:
http://detroitcommunitytech.org/?q=us
1. Director
2. IT Coordinator
3. Data Justice Community Researcher (whatever the hell that is)
4. Web Designer (probably the most important employee)
5. Equitable Internet Initiative Program Coordinator
They make claims of having directed 19 “community intranets”, but don’t have a list of them, or how large an area each spans (couple of floors of an apartment complex?), or how many routers/switches/access points in each “intranet” (one each?), or how many clients are served by each “intranet” (3-4 apartments?).