The aim of the project has therefore concerned the overcoming of the digital-divide on a neighborhood scale, allowing an internet access by the adhering citizens: the presence of a neighborhood broadband computer network has also allowed the integration of the infrastructure with the development of new city security systems (for example, video surveillance). Thanks to the Coviolo Wireless project, today in the village almost 100 people have joined the proposal of community wi-fi and receive connectivity services of quality and low cost at their homes or the headquarters of their business.

Coviolo Wireless Broadband Infrastructure emerges as a successful case of knowledge transfer between different actors. Indeed, the project idea emerged from the local community and was managed by the city government through the neighbourhood house and the neighborhood architects assisted by the social innovation direction and the CSO. From a technological perspective, the Coviolo case shows a possible community-based solution alternative or complementary to the marked-oriented one. From a governance perspective, the project allows the city of Reggio Emilie to experiment with new types of partnerships, the public-private-science,-social-community partnerships. Moreover, the project tested a community-based ownership model and management arrangement of an urban infrastructure.

The innovativeness of the community wi-fi project is also evidenced by the award given by the European Commission in 2017, which awarded Coviolo the ‘European Broadband Awards 2017’

They are now gathering propositions from inhabitants of the neighbourhood and growing strong links with institutions such as schools and libraries. They have already started to organize artistic laboratories with renowned artists of the area and yoga classes.
They are working to become a reference point in the neighbourhood, not only for teenagers but for
their families as well.” (UIA Report)

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“The Casa Ozanam Community hub pact was designed by city inhabitants who already revitalized the structure with the aim of turning into a new Neighbourhood House. This pact gathers NGOs and social cooperatives in order to transform this previously abandoned space via Foligno. They want to create an open community garden, offer stable and safe sport grounds, and organize cultural events and workshops.” (Source here)

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It provides a more articulated spectrum of types of interventions on the commons (art 6). the Regulation empowers the City to directly take the economic responsibility for realizing actions and interventions provided by the pacts of collaboration (article 16). Finally, what is particularly innovative about the Turin approach to the Regulation on civic collaboration for the urban commons is the administration’s effort to build an infrastructure internal to the City Bureaucracy that coordinates different departments of the City in order to push them to work in synergy on the collaboration proposals. This model avoids the classical problem of fragmentation in public-policy making and in implementation processes. To create such an integrated and synergic structure, the administration created a Working Group, established by the Regulation at article 7, second paragraph of the Regulation

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