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WinstonNet
Location: North Carolina (NC)
Abstract:
WinstonNet, Inc. is a non-profit community technology initiative established with the goal of "bridging the digital divide" by providing community computer access in recreation centers and churches and preparing the workforce for the next generation of network‑based super computing technologies. Striving to be a prototype for the nation, WinstonNet is employing cutting edge technology throughout Forsyth County to set the standard for ubiquitous computing for the nation. Our current wireless initiative is designed to enhance the network in Winston‑Salem by deploying next generation wide area wireless technologies as they became available.
Website: http://www.winstonnet.org/
Practitioner Name: n/a
Practitioner Tel: (336) 714-2948
Practitioner E-mail: info@winstonnet.org
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Wireless Harlem Initiative
Location: New York (NY)
Abstract:
Wireless Harlem Initiative is a community-based effort to close the digital divide in the Harlem community, bringing the promise of broadband and global access to information to all of its residents.Wireless Harlem's goal is to make Harlem into one of the most digitally connected communities in America and use new and innovative applications to increase access to job opportunities, provide economic development, close educational gaps, and tap into one of New York's most vibrant tourism economies.
Website: http://www.wirelessharlem.org/
Practitioner Name: n/a
Practitioner Tel: n/a
Practitioner E-mail: mlewis@wirelessharlem.org
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Wireless Philadelphia
Location: Pennsylvania (PA)
Abstract:
Philadelphia is the fifith-largest US city, with a regional population of 5.8 million. It has 83 unique neighborhoods, 52 departments and agencies, and 25,000 full-time local-government employees, with an operating budget of $3.5 billion. Wireless Philadelphia was created to transform Philadelphia's neighborhoods by making high-speed Internet access more available and affordable through Digital Inclusion - the initiative that helps people who are not online gain access with hardware, software, tech support/information, and broadband Internet service, so they can begin to use this technology to improve their educational, employment, health, and life opportunities. Wireless Philadelphia will help all citizens, businesses, schools, and community organizations embrace this technology while strengthening the City's economy, enhancing the visitor experience, and streamlining City services. Philadelphia has been central to the debate over the rights of cities to own and operate their own broadband-wireless networks-that is, to use taxpayer money to provide a service that might otherwise be provided by the private sector. Signed by Gov. Ed Rendell on November 30, 2004, Pennsylvania's House Bill 30 was backed by Philadelphia's local exchange carrier and set up to prohibit municipal participation in broadband services. Thanks to a grassroots efforts, however, more than 3,000 people wrote, e-mailed and called the governor's office urging-successfully-that Philadelphia be given an exemption, a one-year delay in the legislation taking effect, and a waiver and exemption from litigation. Philadelphia found a way to avoid legal and political collisions with incumbent telecom and cable companies by forming nonprofit corporations [also known by its tax code as a 501(c)3] to manage the system. Because the network is shared, the nonprofit may use part of the revenues to lower the cost of service to underserved communities. In Philadelphia, a board oversees Wireless Philadelphia, a 501(c)3 with a CEO and staff, to evaluate potential private-sector partners and do marketing and procurement. It will also contract with service providers to do the "customer care and feeding" in the delivery of services to the end user.
Website: http://www.wirelessphiladelphia.org
Practitioner Name: Ryan Nichols
Practitioner Tel: 215-627-3560
Practitioner E-mail: rnichols@wirelessphiladelphia.org
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Wireless Washtenaw
Location: Michigan (MI)
Abstract:
Wireless Washtenaw, the private-public collaborative that seeks to blanket the entire 720 square miles of Washtenaw County with high speed wireless Internet access, has begun the process of healing its "Digital Divide" by assembling a Task Force to design and implement programs that will enhance computer accessibility and availability within the county.
Website: http://wireless.ewashtenaw.org/
Practitioner Name: Derrick Jackson
Practitioner Tel: 734-222-6781
Practitioner E-mail: jacksond@washtenaw.org
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Zumix
Location: Massachusetts (MA)
Abstract:
Through Z-TECH, ZUMIX provides after-school technical training programs that introduce youth, ages 12-18, to advanced audio and computer technologies. Z-TECH programs are hands-on, giving participants access to state-of-the-art audio equipment, a digital music production lab, recording studio, and computer graphics station.
Website: http://www.zumix.org/community.html
Practitioner Name: Madeleine Steczynski
Practitioner Tel: (617) 568-9777
Practitioner E-mail: msteczynski@zumix.org
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