Students in Chicago, New Orleans, Miami are about to get free Wi-Fi

StateScoop: The civic technology consulting group Ignite Cities announced on Tuesday a plan to bring free Wi-Fi to underserved neighborhoods in Chicago Miami, New Orleans, and Columbia, South Carolina, and potentially more cities as the academic year progresses.

The project, which began on in Chicago in July, will install outdoor, solar-powered routers for students without internet access at home or the ability to access the internet in classrooms closed because of COVID-19. The devices, which are roughly the size of a large pizza box, have so far been installed on Chicago’s public buildings and throughout four of its neighborhoods to provide wireless internet at no cost to the city or its residents.

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