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<nettime> Bjarke Nielsen: Lessons learned from DjurslandS.net |
Djursland is the rural community in Denmark that, upon being refused ADSL connection by the big telecoms, embarked on setting up a WiFi network of its own that subsequently turned into a model famous worldwide. Bjarke Nielsen is Djursland founder and figurehaed ;-) http://www.djurslands.net (in Danish) http://www.diirwb.net/ (Djursland International Institute of Rural Wireless Broadband (in English) ----- Forwarded message from Bjarke Nielsen <bjarke@djurslands.net> ----- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 03:13:59 +0200 Subject: [wsfii-discuss] In-Depth Case Study "Lessons learned from the DjurslandS.net experience" Dear friends of WSFII and community networks ! :-) Here you got a link to my report to InfoDev at the Worldbank on lessons learned from the DjurslandS.net: http://hos.nr-djurs.net/bjarke/In-Depht_Study_of_the_DjurslandS_net_experience.pdf _*Explanation:*_ One year ago about 30 open access network initiatives around the World had answered the questionnaire which people around the Freifunk.net had developed on behalf of OPLAN for InfoDev at the Worldbank. 7 of these about 30 networks - being very interesting and having distinct types of PPPs and project finance approaches - were during spring and summer 2006 asked to make assignment with InfoDev and deliver each their 50 pages Indepth Case Study with detailed data and information on their own local open access network. 3 of these 7 is networks established and run purely by volunteers, namely www.nepalwireless.net, www.wirelessghana.com and www.djurslands.net. Already last autumn reports were published from the first two of these 3 non-commercial networks, - now by this e-mail you got the link to the one coming from Djursland. As founder of DjurslandS.net and educational leader of the "Djursland International Institute of Rural Wireless Broadband" (DIIRWB), InfoDev asked me to do the indepht study on behalf of the Djursland society. It is now finalized and it consist of 52 illustrated pages in letter format and it was send to InfoDev by the 6th of March 2007. It is called: "Lessons learned from the DjurslandS.net experience - An In-Depth Case Study of the Huge Rural Area Wireless DjurslandS.net in Denmark". What we learned - and now can teach internationally - is really mind blowing and sensational, and it has the potential to bridge the technological and social devide between rich and poor societies around the World. - Please read it and - if you are not one already - become a bridge yourself ! ;-) With Smiles and Friendliness from Bjarke :-) Teaching@DIIRWB.net _______________________________________________ wsfii-discuss mailing list wsfii-discuss@lists.okfn.org http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/wsfii-discuss # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net