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Partly funded by the NSF, FabFi Network is "an open-source system that uses common building materials and off-the-shelf electronics to transmit wireless ethernet signals across distances of up to several miles."

This is one of the new approaches being used this summer in the hacker strikes.

A USA Today article has this to say:

Kelly offers six words to help define the 'modern internet': screening, interacting, sharing, flowing, accessing, and generating.

Note that his use of 'flowing' doesn't go nearly as far as ours does.

From a report on Al Jazeera:

""Internet in a Suitcase" will allow citizens to bypass censors and help them reconnect in times of government imposed shutdown. A "suitcase" can be transported to dissidents in a repressive country and quickly set up to allow wireless communication over a wide area with a link to the global Internet, thus undermining the despotic governing powers.

Abstract: Open Access (OA) is a model for publishing scholarly peer reviewed journals, made possible by the Internet. The full text of OA journals and articles can be freely read, as the publishing is funded through means other than subscriptions. Empirical research concerning the quantitative development of OA publishing has so far consisted of scattered individual studies providing brief snapshots, using varying methods and data sources. This study adopts a systematic method for studying the development of OA journals from their beginnings in the early 1990s until 2009.