Copenhagen Interpolation

Attended the sec­ond day of the Copen­hagen Inter­po­la­tion which was truly inter­est­ing. I got what I hoped for; good dis­cus­sions and intro­duc­tions to the power of wi-fi — and more impor­tant — how we can put them to good use. ICT in devel­op­ing coun­tries sure needs more atten­tion from every­one — a shame more peo­ple didn’t attend the forum. The Col­lab­o­ra­tive net­work­ing part was really nice as well, map­ping out some of the legal issues that need address­ing if we want to rethink the way we pro­vide our infor­ma­tion infra­struc­ture, and pre­sent­ing some inter­est­ing projects. Missed the antenna build­ing bit, so I guess I’ll just have to impro­vise when I set up my cov­er­age of the park across the street (which I’ve been think­ing about way too long). Got the wire­less router, got my DSL line upgraded — now I just need an antenna and a lap­top with bat­tery power for a bit longer than the 20 min­utes I have now … Uh, and maybe some meshing-ish stuff … and a proper plan for actu­ally using wifi for some­thing really use­ful myself, like rethink­ing the way we work in net­worked envi­ron­ments, or the way we share knowl­edge within local com­mu­ni­ties and neighbourhoods.