extended until March 7 the race to build the wi-fi along the tram line 1 in Florence. Friday, February 18 provinces of Florence, Prato Pistoia and sign a Memorandum of Understanding for a wi-fi Federated
increase the availability of free public wi-fi, encouraging the emergence of new networks, offer benefits and convenience to citizens using public wi-fi networks, foster a "community of use" to improve and share software and architectures used: The main objective is to contribute to the creation of a true digital identity and a concrete participation in policy 2.0.
These are ambitious goals of the Province of Florence, Prato and Pistoia, wishing to set up a federated network for wi-fi in the metropolitan area. To this end, the three institutions will sign a memorandum of understanding Friday, February 18, carrying on like this one project already initiated in recent months for technological innovation in large areas. The text of the Protocol was adopted at the sitting of the council today. The signing will take place during the meeting "all the free Wi-fi," scheduled for February 18 to 17 to Prato, attended among others by the President of the Province of Rome Nicola Zingaretti.
FEDERATED WI-FI. The three institutions will work together to adapt and develop their networks are already available or those that are in progress to allow the deployment of a wi-fi integrated in a federated model. Specifically, thanks to the interconnection of different authentication systems, citizens can connect to wide area networks with the same credentials. Moreover, the points of access to wi-fi underground Federated will be identified by a single recognizable logo.
A working group formed by members of the three provinces will be responsible to investigate and propose solutions on public wireless networks, also studying the technical and organizational best practices carried out by other public administrations.
"We believe that extending the possibility of network connection is a major objective for the economic and cultural growth of this area - said the Deputy Mayor Provincial Networks Informative Renzo Crescioli - and key to the delivery of current services and advanced and truly useful to all citizens. "
the territory of the Province of Florence, the service will allow even users of the networks in the provinces of Prato and Pistoia, a daily hour of free navigation and traffic 300Mbytes, more than enough for access to Internet services, to ensure that the system is available to all and avoid abuse. The model shared with the provinces of Prato and Pistoia includes the development of a federated network in which users can access with one account and only one registration is valid throughout the province - In perspective on a national scale, in areas that join the network associations - can navigate freely. The platform will be provided through which the service is based on open source components and will be integrated with those other agencies that already have or are developing. The service is already accessible in the cities of Florence, Money, Vicchio, Londa and Rufina and will be progressively extended to other municipalities.
FREEITALIAWIFI. addition to the signing of this agreement, the three provinces FreeItaliaWiFi wishing to join the national initiative launched last November by the Province of Rome, Sardinia and Venice City Council. A project digital citizenship on which it intends to create a dialogue between public authorities for the sharing of solutions for Wi-Fi coverage of public areas, the construction methods of interaction between the databases, the recognition and legal access to mutual users with the purpose of implementing a concrete example of management of "federated digital identity", the creation of joint projects for the simplification of existing national legislation, the development of innovative applications in practical service of citizens, delivered through the networks cooperating .
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