The document discusses plans for the Open Institute to create an open network and infrastructure to benefit communities. It proposes 3 plans: Plan A involves a bespoke local area network, Plan B a community-owned wide area network for Tech City, and Plan C affordable internet access founded on collaborative consumption or an open internet service provider. It stresses that for maximum impact, the Open Institute's architecture and limits must be open by default to encourage participation, civic engineering, and access to open networking hardware and knowledge for all.

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4. So, if it’s to succeed in its overarching mission,
it’s architecture, foundations and its outer limits
must also be open – by default.

5. Without this, the impact of Government’s investment
in the Open Institute and Tech City, more broadly, is
liable to be highly circumscribed.

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7. Build upon the fine grain of long established local institutions,
harness the can-do and know-how of Tech City communities,
and translate that via a truly open infrastructure so that
innovation, services and growth can benefit everyone.

8. In short, it should...
Provide access to 100% open, symmetrical
and hybrid networking hardware
Encourage and enable civic engineering
Stimulate participation in MOOCs juxtaposed
broad-ranging Community Publishing initiatives
– knowledge consumption as well as production
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9. The plan...
Plan A – a bespoke Local Area Network
Plan B – a community owned and managed WAN for Tech City
Plan C – affordable WWW access for all founded upon EITHER
- collaborative consumption principles (shared corporate connections)
- an open ISP capable of wholesale backbone access, group hardware
purchasing and installation support on a social enterprise footing -
subsidised by corporate SR contributions

11. WHO?WHERE?WHEN?
How will we know if it succeeds?
Is it capable of generating a social,
economic and environmental return?

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13. ...its scale and openness should only be limited
by the ambition of its many civic engineers.

14. Together, we are supporting the creation of digital assets
and enterprises being developed by and for communities
across the UK. with....
Visit www.OurDigitalCommunity.org
We are prototyping community publishing with support from....

15. OH,AND...
...we’ve already established
the largest open network
in the European Union!