Wireless Mesh Networking: A Testbed for Security Issues and Community Actions in a Barrio carenciado, Argentina

3. C. OSVALDO RODRIGUEZ, ALICIA JUBERT, REINALDO PIS DIEZ, CARLOS RODRÍGUEZ

J. INF. TECH. and INT. DEVELOPMENT, MIT PRESS

MIT PRESS

Año: 2007

1544-7537

A very poor neighborhood in Argentina that has many features of lower middle class is called “barrio carenciado”. Many heads of the families are unemployed and although children have access to schools it is common that they do not finish their basic instruction. In many cases NGOs play a fundamental role in changing this reality. In this presentation we detail the implementation of a test bed where 14 families and a school are provided with computers, Internet access and are educated out of digital illiteracy. Connectivity is provided by Wireless Mesh Networking (WMN). The research project, is being carried out by a group of researchers from the Universidad de La Plata with different backgrounds in collaboration with the NGO Barrios del Plata (a chapter of Muhammad Yunus´s Grameen Bank). The study monitors the changes in families’ life (in particularly children education and parents opportunities related to obtaining work). The deployment of WMN in such a broad area, aims to define the possible lowest cost