Sandvig and Shaw to speak about San Diego Wildfires and Community Infrastructure

The Community Informatics Initiative Speaker Series Presents:

SPEAKERS
Christian Sandvig (an assistant professor in Speech Communication) & Emily Shaw (MS student in LIS)

TITLE
The Resiliency of Community Infrastructure: The Tribal Digital Village and the San Diego Wildfires

SHORT DESCRIPTION FOR THE TALK:
The Tribal Digital Village (TDV) is an ambitious five-year-old community-based project to provide wireless Internet to remote Indian reservations in California. Using an unusual architecture of car batteries, solar panels and experimental mesh networking protocols, the network serves areas without electric power and telephone service using a 45mpbs wireless backbone of over 90 miles. In the last month, the Poomacha wildfire consumed two of the network's towers (along with 217 buildings and about 50,000 acres) and halted service. This talk considers the resiliency of community informatics projects and the underlying conditions that both create the need for these projects and also make their long-term viability such a challenge.

TIME AND DATE: November 14, 2007 Wednesday 3-4 pm

PLACE:
Room 109 at Library Information Science
(501 E. Daniel Street, Champaign, IL)

After the talk, those who are able can go to the Fire Haus (708 S. Sixth St). for food and drinks. Even if you can't come to the talk, join us there after 4pm. They have vegetarian and non-alcoholic drinks in addition to
other items. http://www.firehausbar.com/

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