29 Dec
2020
29 Dec
'20
2:29 p.m.
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Date: Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 8:40 AM
Subject: This Community Built Its Own Internet Service
To: Alessandro Gagliardi <adfgagliardi(a)gmail.com>
Plus: 4 tips for using social media in your activism
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December 17, 2020
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*When They Couldn’t Afford Internet Service, They Built Their Own
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J. GABRIEL WARE <https://yesmagazine.cmail19.com/t/d-l-ckykiid-vdlykhryd-t/>
Dwight Roston is drilling on the roof of a home in Detroit’s Islandview
neighborhood on the city’s east side. Roston is part of a team that is
setting up a wireless internet connection. The home is just one of 150
designated households in the city to receive free internet service by the
end of the year.
In 2016, a coalition of media, tech, and community organizations launched
the Equitable Internet Initiative, a project that will result in the
construction of wireless broadband internet networks across three
underserved Detroit neighborhoods. Leading the initiative is the Detroit
Community Technology Project, a digital justice project sponsored by Allied
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Each network will provide wireless internet service to 50 households per
neighborhood, according to Diana Nucera, executive director of DCTP.
“During the economic and housing crisis, communities had to fend for
themselves,” Nucera says. “Media and technology play such a vital role in
economic opportunities, but the tech industry doesn’t really think about
community organizing.”
That’s why, she explains, “we developed this approach called community
technology.”
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