International Summit for Community Wireless Networks

This panel will present recent user surveys conducted in Montreal, Budapest, New York, and Fredericton, in addition to data from wireless data collection nodes on mesh devices. How can studying users and the growth of CWNs contribute to our understanding of the ways in which wireless networks are different from or similar to traditional wired broadband infrastructure? In what ways are community wireless activists themselves lead users and innovators of a disruptive technology? How do their uses foreshadow mainstream uses of WiFi networks or how they are unique? (less...)