The Rocky Road to Public Wi-FiMore than 150 cities have started building municipal Wi-Fi networks, and another 200 are planning public-private partnerships of their own, making citywide wireless work is throwing some cities for a loop.
Knight Foundation's wireless initiative
We are convening key stakeholders in our communities and bringing them together. We are also using our resources as a national foundation to bring resources with extensive expertise in the field. These include Intel and One Economy. Intel will offer its technological expertise for free at the webinars; it has no financial stake in which provider(s) is chosen. One Economy, a nonprofit group that works to bring Internet access to low-income families and neighborhoods, can help communities develop ways to make wi-fi systems accessible and vital for everyone.
We will also bring in to the webinars experts who can discuss the legal challenges being faced by communities and offer strategies for dealing with them. And we will attempt to leverage the fact that we have 26 communities to try to negotiate better deals for our those that wish to engage Intel, One Economy or any of the technology providers in their communities after the webinars.
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