Out of the Loop: Problems in the development of next generation community networks

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2001-09-24

arxiv.org/abs/cs/0109076v2

Computer Science

Computers and Society

14 pages

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Drawing on an ongoing longitudinal research study, we discuss problems in the development of five next generation community networking projects in central New York. The projects were funded under a state program to diffuse broadband technologies in economically depressed areas of the state. The networks are technologically complex and entail high costs for subscribers. The political economy of the development process has biased the subscriber base toward the resource rich and away from the resource poor, and toward tried-and-tested uses like Internet and intra-organizational connectivity and away from community-oriented uses. These trends raise troubling questions about network ontology and function, and about the relation between the network and its physical host community. The need for appropriate social policy, and new planning practices, is argued to effect desired change.

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