The Broadband Bridge is a community based wireless mesh network program to provide underserved people with free broadband wireless, computers, and digital literacy training in Washington DC’s Bloomingdale & Eckington Neighborhoods.
I talked to Preston Rhea and Josh King of The New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative, as well as Clarence Labor of One Computer One Child about the project and found out some very interesting things about the Broadband Bridge, mesh networks, and bridging the digital divide. Here’s my video about the project.
