Verrua Savoia Internet Experiment

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Argyro Karanasiou:

"The Verrua Savoia internet experiment by the Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy speaks volumes about how a bottom-up, decentralized approach can provide sustainable solutions in terms of internet connectivity. A simple network with the city hall as its central hub and several routers distributing the internet to five access points spreading across the area, achieved what both the state and the private telecom companies failed: a 20-megabit internet connection. Working around a central hub, the network itself does not follow a distributed architecture however, as of 2015 its administration will be passed to the residents themselves, taking any intermediaries out of the equation." (http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/mediapolicyproject/2014/12/11/kickin-the-clouds-away-a-rights-based-approach-for-mesh-networks-as-community-media/)