Bridging the Digital Divide Class Project Presentations: Internet delivery to rural communities

Class project presentations from the course Info 298. Bridging the Digital Divide: Internet Delivery to Rural Communities.

Student projects were based on field trips up the coast to Mendocino County to see the Further Reach fixed wireless network, interviews with rural residents of the region, and a pilot survey.

This course took a multidisciplinary, hands-on approach to exploring the sociotechnical practices and political-economic issues involved in building wireless networks in rural and under-resourced areas. Students were introduced to a large-scale wireless network under development on the scenic South Mendocino coast, and had the opportunity to devise a semester-long project in their fields of interest. The large-scale network with its subscribers presented a unique dataset for course participants and researchers.