Pittsburgh, Chicago and Toronto are a couple other cities with community-driven network initiatives that I've researched. Also, the recent #yosoysnet movement a

Pittsburgh, Chicago and Toronto are a couple other cities with community-driven network initiatives that I've researched. Also, the recent #yosoysnet movement and the Cuban state-run telecoms company (ETECSA) trying to cut off its citizens from the internet is another really relevant and interesting topic. Basically Cubans have built a full fledged branch of thousands of (illegal) nodes which is tangentially connected to the global internet. There were a few articles that Vice did about El Paquete, the daily couple terabytes of new "internet" (movies, music, news) that was shared over the SNET and by flashdrive. If you're interested, I've written a few articles on why I think community mesh nets could provide a solution to social media echo chambers and reduce the proliferation of conspiracy theories by providing a route for local-first news: https://l-o-o-s-e-d.net/public-internet https://l-o-o-s-e-d.net/public-internet