Wireless Oxford "Prospectus" launched

Last year, when I first wrote to the movers and shakers in the economic development schene in Oxford about the idea for Wireless Oxford I got very little response. But in the past few months one of those we wrote to back then, the Hamilton Trust, has got back in touch interested about the potential for Wireless Oxford to deliver low cost or even free basic internet access to school children as part of wider projects the trust is working on to improve access to educational facilities for all kids, but especially focussing on families with fewer resources of their own.

Since then, knowing that here at Brookes University where I work we have academic experts in wireless networking technologies I put a little group together to look at possible options and costs and come up with something we can sell to prospective partners and funders. You'll find attached to this post the early draft of the first bit of our "Prospectus" which spells out in a little more detail what it is we are trying to achieve. Please feel free to download it and pass it around (noting, please, the copyright on it) and comment on it if you like.