Also, I just wanted to say specifically that I do find saviorism problematic. That said, I've noticed that network access is critical for all sorts of folks that come in to our hackerspaces for a lot of reasons. I sincerely believe that connectivity is a human right as fundamental as water, and we have companies like xfinity that have captured what should be a public good D-: I'd really like a broader conversation in our grassroots communities to shape bay area policy.

Additionally, someone sent me this link to groups like this in Detroit http://detroitdjc.org/?page_id=9 We are deluged with tech here in the bay area, but our visions for access have yet to be defined often times...

On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Praveen Sinha <dmhomee@gmail.com> wrote:

https://medium.com/@GRardB/techs-high-barrier-to-entry-for-the-underprivileged-da254356547d

There's some problematic stuff with the article, but I think it does a good job in highlighting broadband/wireless disparities and the critical role that open wifi and projects like mesh could do to pick up the slack where the municipal governments are totally failing...