Need to make a connection? Does your City not provide free wireless? This toolkit is designed to help you find Wireless broadband resources or find resources so that you can lobby for and build an area-wide WiFi network in your area.
Use the following free wireless network sites to see if there is an available hotspot in your area:
Whether you are a citizen of San Francisco or are located in another city, San Francisco's initiative could be a model to adapt to your community. Most importantly the City's digital inclusion strategy encompasses training, support, community information portals, and more.
Wireless Africa - Anietie Ekanem is a pioneer in providing wireless broadband services in the East Bay and in Africa. Explore his innovative initiatives as a possible model for your community.
AC Transit (East Bay Busses) are testing deployment of WiFi access in its busses.
Digital Cities Convention - See what's happening in U.S. cities with municipally sponsored projects.
CUWin - The pioneer in providing communities with a low open source software solution allowing communities to build their own low-cost wireless mesh networks. This is an excellent step-by-step resource for building your own area-wide network.
Mini-Box : Suppliers of computer hardware that can be used to create WiFi nodes using the CUWin software.
Meraki Mini: A low-cost node for building a Wifi Network.
Seattle Community Network - Provides an example of what is possible using a community developed model of wireless broadband.
Public IP - Public IP provides hotspot operators with an extremely simple, highly versatile, FREE, open source hotspot solution. Public IP's ZoneCD is freely distributed software that has been created to help implement safe, free, WiFi hotspots.