wifi

O governo do Rio promete instalar até junho uma rede de internet Wi-Fi na orla da Praia de Copacabana e na Baixada Fluminense.

Para quem trabalha com projetos de tecnologia social, inclusão digital e webeducação vale a pena ler Radio Revolution. Paper de 2003, de Kevin Werbach; Radio Revolution (New America Foundation working paper, December 2003)

inovacaotecnologica: Comunicação sem-fio ponto-a-ponto - Software gratuitoCientistas do Instituto de Tecnologia Technion, de Israel, desenvolveram um novo software que permite a conexão direta sem fio entre computadores, utilizando a tecnologia WiFi, sem a necessidades de equipamentos intermediários, como roteadores.

For something I'm writing (for free), I want to make the case for the benefits of having a "wifi blanket," by which I mean, loosely, making wireless Internet connectivity so common that we can rely on it being available just about anywhere we are in this country. Depending on how it's implemented, that might work out to coverage as broad as the reach of TV or cell phones, or, say, cheap or free connectivity available to 90% of the population. (I'm making up this number.) And it doesn't have to be wifi. If it's WiMAX or open spectrum or something else, I don't care, so long as it's cheap or free, truly open, crosses economic strata, and is so common that we take it for grante