Open Park Project Launches Free Wi-Fi Service On Capitol Hill. Coverage of National Mall Planned.

Washington D.C. The Open Park Project, a Washington D.C. non-profit, launched the first public outdoor wireless Internet hotspot in the
nation’s capital today (4/28). The free service provides coverage in front of the Supreme Court, the Library of Congress and the Capitol Visitors’ Center site. The Capitol Hill hotspot is the initial step in Open Park’s plan to provide free public wireless Internet service across the National Mall.

Open Park is using the popular Wi-Fi technology employed in home networks and coffee shops. The group’s free hotspot “will give the public outside the Capitol the same quick Internet access for research, email and news that their representatives enjoy inside their offices,” said Open Park’s co-founder, Greg Staple, a
Washington communications lawyer. “It’s a hotspot for democracy.”

[Thanks Steven Clift at Democracies Online Newswire.]

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