One year after Hurricane Katrina hit and devastated New Orleans and parts of Mississippi, our country reflects on what has improved and what still remains unresolved. ‘What have we learned?’, we all seem to ask. The need to answer that question seems as fundamental as ‘What can we do?’ was in the shaky days following the hurricane.
CNT’s partner in community wireless networking, the Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network CUWiN, announces the public release of its free and open source wireless mesh networking software. The software allows individuals, community organizations, and municipalities to set up their own broadband networking infrastructure: this is a crucial component for neighborhoods trying to bridge the “digital divide.”
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