Hi All, I’ve been in ‘writing mode’ (AKA total hibernation) these days, so my apologies for not being around much or if I’ve missed anything. It’s great to come back and see so many of you writing about wild and wonderful things.
Speaking of which, there is a group in South London that is working towards providing community access to the internet via wireless nodes. They call themselves Boundless and although at least one of their founding members, James Stevens, has been doing similar kinds of projects for many years, they decided to become a coop last year. I attended one of their open sessions last night, and in addition to being a friendly bunch, the thing I found most exciting about the whole project is the emphasis on community participation and by extension, community building.
This map shows some of the 45 currently existing nodes. Basically, it works by bringing together people who are willing to host nodes, subsidizing the cost of the technical materials (including a 2 MB cable connection with unlimited download space) by charging those who use it a low monthly access cost. So locals can then connect to the wireless node rather than having their own cable connection. It is in this way that each node constitutes an actual community of people sharing not only a network, but also a neighbourhood. Their aims are to provide internet connections ‘at cost’ and provide an ethical alternative to faceles, corporate and for profit internet services. As I understand it, like the Urban Tapestries public trial, they are using the Locustworld mesh network.
Although I am still uncertain of a lot of the details (e.g. is it legal? how and who would regulate various community connections? what about governance, potential mis-use? etc.) Boundless, like so many locative media projects, has bottum-up, ‘for-the-people’, communty based objectives. One of the things that I think is so innovative about this group is that it has also set out (or is in the process of setting out) an achievable vision of how to realize these aims.
It’s not just a wireless or networking project, but one that is locally rooted, bringing together the social and the technical in a very powerful way - and adds a whole dimension to the terms ‘connectivity’ and ‘locative media’ generally. And it’s happening in my backyard! I’m intensely curious about how it is going to develop.
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