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Matt Sayre edited this page Jul 3, 2019 · 25 revisions

Welcome to the SpeedUpAmerica wiki!

SpeedUpAmerica aims to provide on the ground truth about the Internet in America. Our national broadband map provides transparency: real Internet speeds received, actual prices paid, and level of service experienced.

Getting Started

  1. We've very excited for you to get started, but before you do, please read this primer first. That information that will help you ramp up, get into the code, and get working quickly. You can also see the live site at https://speedupamerica.com

  2. Now that you've read the primer, please follow the Developer OnBoarding Guide.

  3. Want to use Docker for Windows? We've got a guide for that as well right here..

If you'd like more information or would just like to say hello, please find us on slack: https://communityinviter.com/apps/hack4cause/inviter

If you encounter an undocumented process that may need to be repeated by another contributor, please document it! Let's make life easy for everyone to move forward as quickly as possible.

About

It is easy to speculate about what areas of our community have slow internet access, but without the data, it’s nearly impossible to know who is getting good, reliable service and where opportunities exist for improvement. Accurate information on the availability of Internet Service Providers, actual prices paid, and real speeds received is very hard to come by. There is a lack of real data and information about underserved areas. This is where communities in Oregon and throughout the nation need help.

In partnership with US Ignite, this effort works to advance the technology that was originally built in Louisville Kentucky that helped that city’s digital inclusion efforts, and make it available to all cities and rural communities across America.

The envisioned solution combines crowdsourced internet speed test results with a map of the entire United States that is filterable by state, zip code, census tract, and other statistical boundaries.

In the end, we believe this tool will give us the most accurate on the ground data about what is actually happening in terms of Internet connectivity across America. And, it can serve as a starting point for conversations between neighbors, elected officials, and Internet service providers.

The goal of this project is to increase awareness of inequities in speed and quality of internet provided to everyone in the US. If you have questions about anything, please join the conversation. We very much appreciate any feedback, help, or conversation.

We plan on working on this project in four phases:

  1. Lane County Release (COMPLETED)
  2. Oregon Release (COMPLETED)
  3. WE ARE HERE >> Washington and Idaho Release
  4. Additional state by state Release

Assuredly, we will have lots of work in each of these phases and we'll break these down into bite size work increments.

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