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Waianae Community Network

Pu’uhonua o Waianae is a community on the west coast of Oahu in Hawai’i. Residents of Pu’uhonua Waianae participated in a network build in Pu’uhonua o Waimānalo in 2019 and are now ready to create a similar network in their own community. In conjunction with building houses and community buildings at the new location, residents are building the community network. Fiber termination is extended to the community gate by HawaiiTel.

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DCPS Overcome 21

Part of a successful partnership between the Internet Society and Truist in 2021, the Duval County Public Schools lead the Project OVERCOME21, a plan to turn schools in the Florida district into local broadband hubs for the surrounding community. The hubs boost signals to a three-mile radius and connect to the school district’s existing network.

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Roanoke Connect Broadband

Part of a successful partnership between the Internet Society and Truist in 2022, Roanoke Connect Broadband expands a network to increase broadband access in rural northeast North Carolina counties with high poverty rates.

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Connecting for Good

Part of a successful partnership between the Internet Society and Truist in 2022, Connecting for Good expands a project to connect low-income multi-dwelling unit buildings and nearby single-family homes across the city to free and low-cost broadband Internet service.

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Fifth Ward

Part of a successful partnership between the Internet Society and Truist in 2022, Fifth Ward provides up to 700 low-income families with Internet access and offers options for increasing digital literacy skills, installing public Wi-Fi benches, and adding antennas and nodes to community spaces.

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Connected Communities

Part of a successful partnership between the Internet Society and Truist in 2022, Connected Communities deploys high-speed Wi-Fi at a DC Housing Authority property, connecting residents to devices, and facilitating digital literacy and skills training programs.

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Seattle Community Cellular Network

The Seattle community network is a community-run cellular (4G LTE) Internet access network dedicated to offering fair access to underserved communities across the Puget Sound region, USA. The network connects over 100 households with an aggregate bandwidth of 40mbps. It provides free broadband Internet service to low-income and housing-unstable people who cannot afford high-speed Internet services at their places of residence.

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Toronto Mesh

This network is not active.

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Wave 7

Part of a successful partnership between the Internet Society and Truist, the Wave 7 community network connects over 100 households in Enfield, North Carolina, and outlying rural areas. The network runs on wireless technology and offers 40mbps bandwidth, free Internet access to the local public library, and training and online services to the local residents.

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City of Wilson

Part of a successful partnership between the Internet Society and Truist in 2021, this project expands North Carolina’s Community Broadband fiber-to-the-home into a rural, majority-black community in Wilson County.

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