Building Community Social Capital w/ WiFi? 11
demosi asks: "I'm involved in the NOMAD project, which is described
here. Part of the work involves determining how community wireless services can be best used to build social capital (i.e. whether something will have a positive affect on the productivity of a community and its members), by promoting communication in a trustworthy environment. We're asking Slashdot readers if they're involved in similiar projects and if they're interested in measuring the network effects of community WiFi across different countries and cultures?"
No formal site or project yet but... (Score:5, Interesting)
...as mentioned in this post from a little while back [slashdot.org], I've been informally putting together a 'non-internet' wireless access point design as an experiment.
I actually have it working at a basic level (publically-accessible access point, dhcp to hand out IP addresses, BIND configured to hand out the AP's IP as the address for anything they type in [initially] so that they can get to it at any time, web server (to be loaded up with legally-free files for public download)...
Still more to add, but what I have so far does appear to work. I haven't had a chance to make use of it well yet though, to see if anyone uses it (I need to get a higher-powered 802.11b card that can take an external antenna).
If this sort of thing sounds interesting to people, I could try setting up a site devoted to the project somewhere...
Know what you are talking about before you speak (Score:2)
Re:Know what you are talking about before you spea (Score:1)
The 'dumbness' of the idea will be determined after we've collected our data, studies and analysed it.
the term "social capital" (Score:3, Interesting)
Social capital and the internet (Score:1)
Me to. (Score:2)
Access To Information (Score:2)
Re:'Social Capital?' (Score:1)