Wireless Community Summit Tackles Digital Divide

jens writes "More than 150 participants (including Matt Westervelt, Seattle Wireless) from 30 countries will discuss on how to overcome the digital divide building wireless community networks. The freifunk.net summer convention 2004 takes place from 3rd to 10th September in Djursland, Denmark. The convention's location is well chosen -- DjurslandS.net (in Danish) itself is probably the most ambitious wireless community network of the world. About 200 volunteers installed more than 100 masts on the remote area's 32 000 sq mi. Using the wireless standards 802.11a/b/g about 1'500 households enjoy a symmetric 1-2 MBit internet connection via WI-FI (the WI-FI network has 8 direct uplinks to the danish backbone and several DSL fallbacks). The wireless4development track organized by wire.less.dk will show other projects how to follow the DjurslandS.net example. The convention starts off with a 3 day program including VoIP, development for the meshcube and antenna building and finishes off with a 5 day hands-on workshop."

Comments

Summit, Eh?

[darth_MALL]

Sounds like a good, high location to set up an ambush with the BlueSniper

Re:Summit, Eh?

[ackthpt]

Sounds like a good, high location to set up an ambush with the BlueSniper

Don't look for high places in Denmark, the highest elevation is on a bridge.

The highest point (according to CIA) is at Yding Skovhoej 173 m.

Ejer Bavnehøj which is 0.06 meters higher than Yding Skovhøj.

Storebelt East Bridge, Storebæltsbroerne pylon height 254 m

I want...

[dragonp12]

to live in the middle of that WI-FI network. Then I wouldn't be stuck on a dial-up!

Wow

[johnnyb]

"The convention's location is well chosen -- DjurslandS.net (in Danish) itself is probably the most ambitious wireless community network of the world. About 200 volunteers installed more than 100 masts on the remote area's 32 000 sq mi. Using the wireless standards 802.11a/b/g about 1'500 households enjoy a symmetric 1-2 MBit internet connection via WI-FI (the WI-FI network has 8 direct uplinks to the danish backbone and several DSL fallbacks)."

Sounds like you could microwave a hot dog just by holding it up in the air. This conference was probably envisioned by a seminar given the previous year on "new and effective revenue generation techniques for oncologists".

Left out in the Cold

[ackthpt]

Yeah, lovely, tackling the divide... Like it does me any good. It's a real pain in the back to lug a desktop system around town looking for Wi-Fi hotspots...