Fascinating stuff. So will the content only be available at one of the
wifisalon hotspots? But the real question is who will pay for the
hotspots? Has Midori heard of NYCwireless?
- Dustin -
Anthony Townsend wrote:
i guess we have some competition
Begin forwarded message:
From: Midori Yasuda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: November 9, 2004 5:37:36 PM EST
To: ITP Faculty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 16 Multimedia Wi-Fi Hot Spots in 9 Major Parks in NYC to Be
Test Beds for Innovation
Reply-To: Midori Yasuda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Call For Digital Designers, Communitarians, and Technologists to Help
Create
Multimedia Wi-Fi Hot Spots in NYC's Major Parks
Background: The NYC Department of Parks and Recreation has awarded
The Wi-Fi Salon a three-year concession (renewable) to establish and
operate 16 Wi-Fi Hot Spots in 9 parks in 4 boroughs.ÊÊ The locations
are as follows:
• The Battery
• Central Park (The Dairy, The Boathouse CafŽ, Summerstage,
The 86th St Shops. The Arsenal/Central Park Zoo, Mineral Springs
Snack Bar/Sheep's Meadow)
• Washington Square Park
• Union Square Park
• Riverside Park/79th Street Boat Basin and CafŽ
• Prospect Park (The Boathouse, The Picnic House)
• Flushing Meadows Tennis Center
• Orchard Beach
• The golf houses in Van Cortlandt Park and Pelham Bay Park
These Wi-Fi Hot Spots will serve up rich multimedia content,
applications and services - video tours, online games, digital
exhibitions and performances, shopping, dining, local information,
VOIP and video conferencing.ÊÊ ÊThey will be performance spaces for
public art, arenas for social computing and gaming, IP
telecommunications nodes, tourist destinations, and community
portals.ÊÊ They will also be test beds for new gear, applications,
and services.
Since our inception, The Wi-Fi Salon has had the support of The
Parsons School of Design, The Alliance for the Arts, The New York
City Council, and Lincoln Center.ÊÊ We are now also working closely
with the LMCC.ÊÊ We also have in our consortium coders, developers,
and infrastructure engineers, and are in regular conversation with
various media companies, interactive agencies, non-profits,
conservancies, community boards, academics, and local business groups.
Opportunity:Ê We are reaching out to all those who want to
participate in creating an unwired future, starting with these park
locations.Ê We want to launch applications and services and begin to
answer the following questions:ÊÊ How will wireless broadband and
pervasive computing affect social and economic relations, alter urban
spaces, and change how we produce and consume media?Ê Is there a
project you know of that would benefit from its being hosted at any
of the above venues?Ê We want to hear about it!
The first site we will light up is The Battery, slated for December
15th.Ê ÊYou can contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 212-362-6546
to discuss what you feel should be part of the launch, and more
generally what could be done at these Hot Spots.
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