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The Promise of Broadband Wireless Communities |
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A resource and toolkit for local authorities seeking to plan, fund and deploy broadband-wireless networks in their communities.
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“This book, a collaborative effort of the United Nations ICT Task Force and the Wireless Internet Institute (W2i), is intended as a resource and toolkit for local authorities seeking to plan, fund and deploy broadband-wireless networks in their communities. It also aims to raise awareness of the immense potential of wireless technologies in meeting the real needs of the poor. Indeed, the exponential growth in new technologies continues to offer vast opportunities. I look forward to working with all concerned to build an information society that benefits and empowers all the world’s people.”
—From the Foreword by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan “Despite their growing popularity worldwide, deploying community broadband-wireless infrastructures still presents significant challenges. This volume is intended to serve as a knowledge base, including a primer on the technology and regulatory issues, a record of case studies and best practices, and a how-to implementation and toolbox. Whether built and/or operated by the local government or by private-sector investors, the best implementations appear to grow out of a broad community consensus and a careful analysis of local needs.”
—From the Preface
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The Wireless Internet Opportunity for Developing Countries |
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Wireless Internet can bridge the connectivity gap in developing countries and leapfrog wired infrastructure at low cost to empower people. Chapters address technology, regulatory issues, vendor resources and country guidelines. Thought leaders contribute three "opportunities and roadblocks" essays. A first-ever case-study compendium explores remote regions, WISPs, shared access, adaptive technologies and rebuilding nations.
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"Wireless technologies have a key role to play everywhere, but especially in developing countries and countries with economies in transition. With considerable speed and without enormous investments, Wi-Fi can facilitate access to knowledge and information, for example by making use of unlicensed radio spectrum to deliver cheap and fast Internet access. Indeed, it is precisely in places where no infrastructure exists that Wi-Fi can be particularly effective, helping countries to leapfrog generations of telecommunications technology and infrastructure and empower their people."
—From UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s welcoming message to "The Wireless Internet Opportunity for Developing Countries" conference at UN Headquarters in New York on June 26, 2003
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