2023-11-15 13:30:30
And Community project to install internet optical fiber seeks to overcome the digital divide in the neighborhood of Villa Soldatifrom Commune 8, the one with the least access to the network in the city of Buenos Aires.
Soldati Connected conceives the web “from a perspective of socio-urban integration, as an essential service that guarantees access to other rights and therefore contributes to improving the quality of life of communities,” contextualizes the news agency of the Communication major. the UBA.
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Thanks to a financing line from ENACOM, improvements in the wiring were first guaranteed. And later give it a social sense, but also political. Nicolás Petrungaro, a member of the El Hormiguero group, designed the network thinking about “having a own voice of the neighborhood in the face of media concentration and journalistic reports that always use the same negative tone to refer to the south of the City.”
Florence Arancibia, one of the 11 workers who walk its streets, is the maintenance and installation coordinator. She graduated as a fiber optic splicer after training with other colleagues.
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The network has access points free in cafeterias, schools, cultural centers, churches and public transport stops, while 150 people pay a home fare accessible. The income is allocated to maintenance, to guarantee the quality of the service and to the delivery of training courses that allow the technology to be appropriated. Every week between 10 and 15 new clients are added.
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This initiative, also present in Villa 20 and 16 neighborhoods in a dozen provinces, was not only a response to the inequalities that brought the pandemic to light; It was also fundamental to guarantee rights such as education during the isolation phase, since the cost of mobile data service hinders the neighborhood children from following distance classes. Soldati Connected emerges with the hope of developing connectivity models fairer.
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