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Matt Sayre edited this page Jul 1, 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

Check out the menu to the right, particularly the "Before You Start" section for information that will help you ramp up, get into the code, and get working. Feel free to visit speedupamerica.com to see the live site and ask questions wherever you can.

If you are a contributor to this project and 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.

We do have some organization outside of GH in terms of issue priority and phasing -- if you'd like more information about that, please contact us or message below for links to our slack and any other avenues of communication we may have.

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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