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Working with the community to build affordable internet access in Gellideg
• 71% ‐ access to the internet from home
• 21% ‐ fixed access through phones and TV deals
• 78% of people unwilling to access internet elsewhere
Affordability, financial literacy and financial inclusion
Our research
• Find a way to create community owned access to the WWW
• Limited experience in UK of community owned access
• MVH did not want to be a provider of digital services
• We looked to Spain and Guifi.net
Our solution
“To create an affordable, community owned and easily expandable digital network”
Our objective
Homage to Catalonia
“…to test whether it is possible to provide access to know‐how and tools to enable communities to
design, build, own and manage open, symmetrical, affordable, scalable and
sustainable broadband networks – not for private profit but for social benefit – in areas of
deprivation and market failure.”
Our challenge
Pilot ‐ Gellideg
• Digital Merthyr working with:‐– Gellideg Foundation, – Coed Y Dderwen– Creative Co‐ops
• Developed concept with MTCBC, NHS, Job centre
• Funded by Merthyr Valleys Homes and Nominet Trust
Technical solution
• Digital Merthyr working with the Gellideg Foundation, Coed Y Dderwen Creative Co‐ops
• Funded by MVH and Nominet Trust
• Developed concept with MTCBC, NHS Job centre
• Local digital champions
• Guifi.net came to Merthyr and designed the technology
• Our Digital inclusion officer completed his training
• Engineers and Nick on site next month
• Should be a live pilot after Xmas
Implementation
• Delays whilst we sourced funding• Technically challenging• We await further challenge on state aid• We still might have planning issues• It might not work
Delays, delays, delays
Digital Merthyr Part of a wider community approachCommunities 2.0 Youth clubs and projectsSheltered scheme silver surfers
