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== Netsukuku and the civic networks ==
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Cities and Institutions are showing a growing interest in e-government
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projects finilised in providing on line services to the citizens through
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Internet.
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For example are disposable:
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- school related activities (enrolments, cultural and educational
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programs),
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- news, local radio and televisions
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- guides for expositions and events, cultural and tourist information
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- discussion forums, social and cultural activities
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However, the diffusion and access to the Net isn't still disposable for
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everyone: DSL facilities aren't available in many cities and the ISPs impose
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expensive rates/costs to grant connectivity.
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The creation of civic nets, in which the users can have free access to web
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sites and to the on line e-services, surfing freely and without any cost web
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sites dedicated to institutional, educational, tourist, commercial and social
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activities, which need a constant and direct dialogue with the people, is
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today made possible by NETSUKUKU Open Source software.
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His first aim is the implementation of a global mesh network, completely
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independent from Internet, in which the single PCs, communicating each other
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through radio frequencies, become automatically the nodes/access points of the
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net and in such way give their contribution to make it alive and, at the same
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time, to expand it, exactly as in a fractal scheme.
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The NETSUKUKU routing system allows:
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- every user to go not only through the Net of their city but also through
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those located in all the other cities which, once they are inter-connected,
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create a kind of global Network, parallel to Internet, which can
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indefinitely expand, completely without the support of ISPs;
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- till a maximum of 256 hostnames to be recorded and supported by each PC
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(i.e. node of the Net).
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On the Netsukuku Net everybody wishing to offer digital contents/information,
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will be able to share them simply from his or her PC. The more of actors
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represented in the system is high in number, the more will be granted
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dialogue, circulation of different ideas, democratic process and the full
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right of citizenship inside the society of information.
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Last but not least, inside Netsukuku Net users will have the chance to get
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through the Internet free of cost: in fact any node can share with the
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Netsukuku Net his connectivity to Internet and get from other users the
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bandwidth they didn't use in any the moment.
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=== How to realize a wireless Netsukuku Net ===
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Netsukuku is an architecture of flexible net and will create autonomously an
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efficient wireless mesh network among PCs equipped with radio connection
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devices. The simplest way to create/join the Netsukuku Net is to install a
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common wi-fi card inside your own PC and launch the Netsukuku program, freely
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downloadable from Internet. The flux of data will reach the wished
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destination, going through the same nodes (PCs or Access Points in which
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Netsukuku as been installed inside), interconnected among them. Obviously a
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larger diffusion of the Netsukuku dedicated network can be achieved by the
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wi-fi coverage of wide urban and rural areas: in the market there are many and
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different solutions of wireless devices, all valid and cheap (routers, access
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points, omni directional antennas).
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For more information or any request of assistance Netsukuku community is
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available on the net at the following site:
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http://netsukuku.freaknet.org
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