This article makes a brief demonstration of public policies for digital inclusion through the provision of Internet access via wireless networks and discusses how people relate to places, according to the existence or lack of accessibility to the internet. The paper has the objective to debate the access to internet through wireless networks in Brazil and, more specifically, in the city of Salvador. This work also does a brief demonstration of public wireless networks and debate how people relate with places, according to the existence or inexistence of internet accessibility. This work is the result of a research made on the Group of Research in Cybercitys of University Federal of Bahia and shows how the intersection between the cyberspace and physic space is bringing new experiences of use and production of sense about the city. Today, the contemporary city presume a large connection and associations between the physic space and "informational territories" to a lot of purposes, in an alliance between physic and informational mobility. In that way we show what are the main theoretical challenges at stake with locative medias, the wireless networks and the urban space. This work makes an analysis of the project Wi-Fi Salvador, the biggest online mapping of wireless networks ever made in the capital of Bahia and Brazil.
Cyberculture; Digital cities; Collaborative mapping; Mobility; Wireless networks
