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Useful Sites

• WirelessU.org: An open access repository of training materials built by trainers from around the world.
  

• Wireless Training Material (slides, handouts, notes) developed as part of the Capacity building for community wireless connectivity in Africa initiative which is funded by IDRC and coordinated by APC. Some of the material in this book is drawn from this.
• Radio Mobile Windows-based integrated network planning, LOS and coverage calculations based on terrain data. Free software from the ham radio scene.
• Djursland International Institute of Rural Wireless Broadband Training in organisation and establishment of wireless networks, both for rural landscapes but also for towns all over the world. Using the experiences gained in building and establishing The Djurslands.net in Denmark.
• WILAC (in Spanish). WiLAC provides informations on the design, implementation, and use of wirelss community networks throughout Central and South America and the Carribean. WiLAC is an initiative of Fundación ESLARED, developed with the support of the Institute for the Connectivity in Américas (ICA).
• VSAT Buyer's Guide A great primer and guide to VSATs. Written by Alex Twinomugisha and Sandra Aluoch with support by IDRC.
• Chinese cookware + USB adaptors = Poor Man's WiFi Antenna? Yet another approach to homemade WiFi antennae. Looks pretty simple.
• Village phone replication manual. A manual for setting up a village phone programme, by D. Keogh, and T. Wood, which replicates the Grameen Village Phone in a new country. It draws on Grameen's experience in both Bangladesh and Uganda and establishes a template for creating sustainable initiatives that simultaneously bring telecommunications to the rural poor, create viable new businesses for microentrepreneurs, and expand the customer base of telecommunications companies. 250 page pdf (1.4MB) here.
• SoCalFreeNet - Community Wireles installations in San Diego. Lots of pictures of home made gear and installations of various types.
• B.C. Community Connectivity Co-Operative Wiki - Co-Operative of municipalities and non-profit/non-government organizations working to bridge the digital divide in communities throughout British Columbia, Canada.
• BC Wireless - Grassroots community networking - lots of homebrew gear and equipment tests and photos.
• Ronja Low cost free-space optical system - 10mbps up to 1.4km, inexpensive, and totally immune to RF interfence. Much as we like wireless, in a crowded city with a lot of wireless, an optical systemmight be better sometimes.
• Onno Purbo's resource list Onno is a great WiFi Community networking pioneer from Indonesia.
• fon-movement (fon.com), creating a global hotspot
• CRCnet Project - creating a platform to allow communities to build their own broadband wireless networks using a open source configuration system to remove much of the technical complexity. Successful networks using the CRCnet platform have been built in several rural areas of New Zealand as well as rural Transkei in South Africa. The configuration sysytem can be found at http://www.wand.net.nz/trac/ccs/.
• Political links page and blog for Hodges' model: a universal conceptual framework facilitating engagement and socio-technical perspectives.