Valentina Ferrandello
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Yesterday it was announced with great triumphant tones that in the city of Reggio Calabria has been reset the wireless network service for free in the areas of the old town, after which in 2013 He was abruptly suspended following the receivership of the municipality. Anyone who wants to join the network for free for 8 hours per day will finally do it again, after which in recent years had become a habit unfortunately terminated without a valid reason. The service works in a simple and easy: following the procedure and the steps specified at www.reggiowireless.com ; once activated username and password, you can have free access to the network in the areas: the Promenade Falcomatà (excluding the Lido Comunale and the Temple area), Italy Piazza and the neighboring area of Corso Garibaldi, Piazza Castello Piazza Garibaldi (area in front of the Central Station), Ce.Dir. (Outdoor areas: forecourt courtrooms, side Urbanism and the square opposite the Auditorium), St. Anne’s Square and Piazza Carmine.
The service wi-fi is not new in the city of Reggio Calabria: it was installed and made accessible to the citizens in the 2008 . The free wireless network gave the city of Reggio a national record : then in fact no city offered the service for free in the areas behind the beach. In Reggio, however, you could connect for free from the comfort of lying in the sea in the area of the beaches of the Promenade. Other seaside Italian in fact, offered this service for swimmers but for a fee, and relying on private operators, as in the case of the island of Capri. Reggio could therefore claim the distinction of Italian cities Italian with wi-fi on the beach and the third in the world after Miami and Barcelona.
But where is He did this revolutionary idea and the ambitious project? Perhaps, most citizens are unaware that the idea was born from the Civic Network of Reggio Calabria, thanks to the cooperation and support of all employees. Offer a similar service would be a major boost for the city of Reggio Calabria, quell’incentivo to try to bridge the socio-economic gap that plagues the city, projecting it into the future with cutting edge design. Sebastiano D’Agostino , supported by the current alderman Giuseppe D’Ascoli , who immediately supported this idea, they decided to bring the initiative to the mayor Scopelliti .
Giuseppe D’Ascoli , speaking on StrettoWeb, kindly told that “ the idea appeared to me at once exciting and, as I had at the time the delegation to technological innovation, together we decided to submit the proposal to the mayor to get the green light to its activation “. Continue D’Ascoli : “ this project was initially launched only in one of the beaches along the seaside promenade, namely the former Duck: 4 July 2008 the service was launched. At the time, Reggio Calabria was the first Italian city where you could surf for free at the beach, the third largest city in the world after Miami and Barcelona. “
The success of the initiative was such that after only a few months the network was expanded, “ has covered all areas of the old town that just yesterday were reactivated. Rai was also affected by the initiative, so much to us to know the details of the project “- says D’Ascoli -” The idea came only it works in the city and its well: in those years, Reggio, enjoyed a discreet tourist flow and surely, provide this service to the city area meant a further boost tourism: an extra incentive, so that they could finally speak well of Reggio, such as city where you can surf for free from the comfort of lying on the beach or strolling in the old town “.
But as far too often the case, then and even now, after the news of the re-activation of the service, have flocked criticism: Reggio is a city that still suffers from significant shortcomings in terms of the use of essential goods and primary, as you may invest on a similar service rather than other priorities? In reality, behind the “superficiality” of installing a network access in the central areas of the city, there is much more. There are less wealthy citizens who still can not enjoy an ADSL or people forced to work in the city, moving continuously with a need for access to the network in order to do business better. Not to mention the students, often out of the office, who can not afford a broadband contract, find it difficult to use the services of the faculty today are made almost all over the internet: from research projects, administration and also job ads , calls for tenders and bose study. Reggio, offers a good 8 hours of free daily, against half an hour or an hour up to offer free navigation in other cities. Thus giving the opportunity to carry out study and work, an indirect approach to closing the gap socioeconomic plaguing the area. As for the look purely economic-tourist, nowadays, no denying that, when you go on vacation the first thing you look for is a free Internet access: the airport, the accommodation and especially outdoors.
Our city, yes, it needs primary essential services, but what many do not see it that often the growth of a territory under different aspects (social, cultural, economic) is linked to technological progress; if there is no investment to do it is right that they are made a priority of essential services, but we can not afford to neglect other measures to ensure that Reggio will recover step by step the gap that haunts. And the work of the professionals of the Office of the City that manages the Civic Network, is a job which daily seeks to ensure just that.
Today If the citizens of Reggio and the tourists who come to visit our town can enjoy this service, just reactivated yesterday, thanks to the foresight of those who had believed in this ambitious project transforming a dream into reality 8 years ago when yet such a thing was fiction, with the intention of doing not only of Reggio “ a beautiful city untapped “, as all too often we hear, but a city finally “ accessible and accessible “, time to progress and technology, and it can improve the way you” live “to 360 degrees also enjoying internet will place that nowadays is impossible without partridge: walk in Reggio and enjoy the beauty of the waterfront and the old town as yesterday, again, today will be easier because, wherever you are, there you will find no network.
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