Title :
Wireless Community Networks: Public Assets for 21st Century Society
Author :
Lawrence, Elaine ; Bina, Mary ; Culjak, Gordana ; El-Kiki, Tarek
Author_Institution :
Technol. Univ., Sydney, NSW
Abstract :
The authors report on the results of an online survey on the motivations and effort involved in participating in wireless community networks. The survey is part of a multinational survey that has been administered in Greece, Australia and the USA. This paper examines the Australian data and complements the quantitative findings with unsolicited, qualitative email statements from several wireless community network members
Keywords :
wireless LAN; online survey; wireless community networks; wireless local area networks; Australia; Communication system security; Demography; Ham radios; Large-scale systems; Law; Legal factors; Web sites; Wireless LAN; Wireless networks;
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology, 2007. ITNG '07. Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Las Vegas, NV
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2776-0
DOI :
10.1109/ITNG.2007.208
