Hi everyone,
I've just posted a seven-minute video blog featuring Martin Varsavsky,
the founder of the Fon wifi network (www.fon.com), who spoke last week
at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
Fon is a new global network of individuals who provide free or low-cost
wifi to their neighborhoods. Those who provide a hotspot may in turn
access any other Fon hotspot for free. If you charge users for access,
you must limit their access fees to USD $2 a day, and share the revenue
with local broadband providers.
In the video blog, Varsavsky talks about Fon and "foneros," the
volunteers who make up the network. He also compares and contrasts Fon
with municipal wifi networks like the one being deployed in Philadelphia.
http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/2006/03/fon_the_global_wifi.html
The video is a Quicktime file, available in three formats. The high
resolution version is just under 40 megabytes, the medium res version is
around 15 megabytes, and the low-res version is just over two megabytes.
Meanwhile, for those of you who use digg.com, I've submitted a summary
of the video here:
http://digg.com/technology/Video_Blog_about_Fon,_the_new_global_wifi_network
thanks,
andy
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Andy Carvin
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andycarvin (at) yahoo . com
http://www.digitaldivide.net
http://www.andycarvin.com
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