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The Wireless Internet Institute
(A division of World Times Inc)
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Wireless technology offers low-cost
internet access to underserved areas
A report by the Wireless Internet Institute
21 July 2004: Wireless internet technology has the potential to bridge the digital divide by providing low-cost broadband internet connectivity to underserved areas and local communities. Leapfrog wireless technologies may be deployed rapidly to help foster economic development and workforce productivity and to enable delivery of social-service applications in the areas of e-health, e-education, and e-government.
Its deployment can become a useful tool in improving productivity and security and in bringing internet-based services and connectivity to whole new segments of underserved populations at a fraction of the cost of wired technologies. Bringing the stakeholder community together can improve decision-making and provide an open forum to discuss incumbent telecom companies and adverse legacy regulations that can drastically limit the potential of the wireless internet.
The Wireless Internet Institute (W2i) and the UN ICT Task Force (UNICTTF) have developed the Global Municipal Government and Local Authorities Series to accelerate the adoption of broadband wireless internet in municipalities and underserved urban populations around the world.
Undertaken in partnership with companies such as IBM and Intel, international development organizations such as UNITAR and the Inter-American Development Bank, the Series aims to raise awareness about opportunities for local government to build high-capacity wireless communications infrastructure in support of municipal economic, social, and educational development.
This Global Municipal Government and Local Authorities Series aims to build consensus among municipal executives (mayors, municipal technology policy executives, city council members and municipal policy minded CIOs), industry practitioners and regulators involved in technology policy development and implementation, to establish strategies necessary to overcome obstacles and develop environments favourable to the broad deployment of wireless internet infrastructures in municipalities
This series will be overseen by a multinational, multidisciplinary steering committee. The various high visibility conferences, seminars and interactive workshops held around the world during 2004 and 2005, will create conditions for informal dialogue and brainstorming, focusing on the following critical themes:
• Case studies and the role of various constituents
• Business models and partnerships in support of wireless Internet deployments
• Benefits to citizens, local government, community development and economic development
