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LAST MODIFIED:  Friday 11th March 2011

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Image of wlan button 3.gif INFORMATION, LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY
Extracts from Norbert Weiner's "Cybernetics" (MIT 1948)
Image of wlan button 3.gif COMMUNITY & EDUCATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS
ON CABLE BROADCASTING MEDIA FEASIBILITY STUDY
For Stockwell Park Tenant Management Association - November 1992
Image of wlan button 3.gif "MOORE'S LAW" AS APPLIED TO  "TELECOMMUNICATIONS"
There Oughtta Be a Law........ Jeff Ubois (Upside Magazine) -1998
Image of wlan button 3.gif Amateur Radio Repeater Internet Services
Mendip Repeater Group  NEWSLETTER - WINTER -1998
Image of wlan button 3.gif WIRELESS COMMUNITY NETWORKS
 Public service community wireless networks.  Robert L. Williams...... (Texas State Library Service)  April 1999
Image of wlan button 3.gif A HIGH SPEED DIGITAL BACKBONE RADIO LINK
Tom Langdon VK3JED (See Future Vision Essay) - May 1999
Image of wlan button 3.gif HOW TO MAKE A SIMPLE 2.425GHZ HELICAL AERIAL FOR WIRELESS ISM BAND DEVICES
Reproduced with kind permission of author jason@air.net.au 1999 -2001 
Image of wlan button 3.gif A FUTURE FOR AMATEUR & COMMUNITY WLANS?
A personal overview G8OTA -February 2000.
Image of wlan button 3.gif THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS (IEEE)
NEWS RELEASE 13th March 2000 "IEEE Creates Coexistence Task Group and Study Group to Develop High Speed, Wireless Personal Area Networks." (2000)
Image of wlan button 3.gif Broadband Fixed Wireless Access
A market assessment from KPMG  April 2000
Image of wlan button 3.gif WIRELESS INTERNET ACCESS IN LATVIA
Inexpensive Internet links over the City and academic district of Riga - Guntis Barzdins - 2000
Image of wlan button 3.gif HOW RADIO WLANS WORK
Radio Today - August 2000
Image of wlan button 3.gif PULLING THE PLUG ON THE FUTURE
Wireless fidelity, or WiFi, could make our computers as mobile as phones and transform commerce. By Faisal Islam (Net News - Dec 2000)
Image of wlan button 3.gif NEW COMMUNITY BROADCASTING HARDWARE SYSTEMS
For Stockwell Park Media Centre - February 2001
Image of wlan button 3.gif Your 802.11 Wireless Network has No Clothes
Arbaugh, W. Shankar, N. Wan, J. Dept. Computer Science, University of Maryland, USA - March 2001
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~waa/wireless.pdf
Image of wlan button 3.gif WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES FOR SMALL COMMUNITIES/CITIES (in Developing Countries)
Abstract from correspondence for mail.wlan.org.uk.(Henry O'Tani) - March 2001
Image of wlan button 3.gif BUILDING LINUX WIRELESS GATEWAYS with 802.11b
How-to for Linux. Step-by-step, with links and sample configuration files. Reproduced by kind permission of author Erle Schuyler (June 2001)
Image of wlan button 3.gif Wireless Ethernet: Serving the public
Cahner's EDN Access. Cover story - 24 May 2001
Image of wlan button 3.gif Wireless Broadband ICT Choices for Hill & Valley Communities [in Scotland & Wales]
COMMUNITY or Commercial Exploitation? (Henry O'Tani) - September 2001
Image of wlan button 3.gif Antennas Enhance WLAN Security
different antenna designs, and how the positioning of the user's antenna makes a difference in signal reception. BYTE.com Feature by Trevour Marshall - October 1 2001
Image of wlan button 3.gif Beyond 3G-4G-5G
WLAN / UMTS what's the right thing? - Maybe communications effectiveness......Essay by Anders Ljung -
April 2002 Elektrosmog mail forum
Image of wlan button 3.gif A Keynesian FIX to the Current Telecom Crisis
National Broadband - Free at the Point of Delivery - Making it Pay!
June 2002 Henry O'Tani G8OTA -
Image of wlan button 3.gif Deliverance: the Unlicensed Marriage of WiFi and WiMAX
To date, the history of broadband wireless infrastructure deployment has been, by and large, a disappointment to many who anticipated reaping the implied benefits. However, recent events within the wireless networking technical standards arena should give us all renewed hope that an emerging bridge-building technology will eventually help crossover the Internet access chasm that's commonly known as the digital divide.
By David H. Deans -
July 2002
Image of wlan button 3.gif WIRELESS NETWORKS (U.K. Library Services)
An issue paper from the Networked Services Policy Taskgroup Series editor: Penny Garrod (UKOLN)
UKOLN The University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, E-mail: s.criddle@ukoln.ac.uk
Image of wlan button 3.gif Kofi Annan's IT challenge to Silicon Valley

The new information and communications technologies are among the driving forces of globalization. They are bringing people together, and bringing decision makers unprecedented new tools for development. At the same time, however, the gap between information "haves" and "have-nots" is widening, and there is a real danger that the world's poor will be excluded from the emerging knowledge-based global economy. We need to think of ways to bring wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) applications to the developing world, so as to make use of unlicensed radio spectrum to deliver cheap and fast Internet access. We also need to explore the possibility of creating an open international university. Surely, experts can think of many more ideas along these lines. The United Nations is working hard to enlist this power in the cause of economic and social development. A Health InterNetwork, spearheaded by the World Health Organization, is creating Web sites for hospitals, clinics and public health facilities in the developing world to bring high-quality information within reach and to facilitate communication in the public health community. The United Nations Information Technology Service, a global consortium of volunteer corps coordinated by the U.N. Volunteers program, is training people in developing countries in the uses and opportunities of information technology.
http://www.unicttaskforce.org/sg_challenge.asp
November 5, 2002 By Kofi Annan
Image of wlan button 3.gif Lets Set Up A Community WLAN
December 2002 A beginner's guide to setting up a community WLAN.... Henry O'Tani G8OTA -
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ZapMail and the Telecommunications Industry
"To understand what's going to happen to the telephone companies this year thanks to WiFi (otherwise known as 802.11b) and Voice over IP (VoIP) you only need to know one story: ZapMail."
http://www.airshare.org/learn/articles/editorial/shirky1.cfm
January 8, 2003 By Clay Shirky
Image of wlan button 3.gif Spectrum Liberalisation & Information & Communications Technology Development
Informal submission to Ofcom Public Consultation
http://www.wlan.org.uk/Spectrum Liberalisation.htm
September 2004 From:- Henry O’Tani
Image of wlan button 3.gif LOWER COST BROADBAND SATELLITE INTERNET BACKHAUL FOR AFRICA
November 2006 By Henry O’Tani: www.wlan.org.uk/broadband internet backhaul for africa.html
Image of wlan button 3.gif Wireless Networking in the Developing World
...This "E-Book" released free of charge under a Creative Commons Atribution-ShareAlike license, which allows anyone to freely download, copy, update or redistribute the book
February 2008 Arabic version translated by Anas Tawileh www.lasilky.org
Website of the English edition (and other languages): www.wndw.net