[wsfii-discuss] Assessment of the socio-economic benefits of community wireless mesh networks

Tue Jun 12 04:55:43 UTC 2012

Hi all,

My name is Carlos Rey-Moreno, and I'm working on the deploying of a 
participatory-designed community wireless mesh network (using 
Mesh-Potatoes) in a rural community in South Africa. In the first stages 
of the project we'll be focusing only on providing internal calls in the 
network and designing with the local institutions the prices of these 
calls as for making the maintenance of the network sustainable.

Together with the deployment we want to understand the socio-economic 
impact that our intervention will cause in the community, so I was 
wondering  whether any of f you know of any assessment of the 
socio-enconomic impact of a deployed community wireless networks (I dont 
mind if they were rural or urban, "north" or "south")?

Thank you very much in advance

Carlos