Currently there is no free Wi-Fi access facility at Redcliffe Library in particular and other Libraries at Moreton Bay Region in general. We are living in 21st Century where Information & Communication Technology (ICT) is growing fast. The ICT contribute great benefits to both economic and social development of a country in particular and the whole world in general.

Australia is a technology based country.  We (Australians) get huge benefits from ICT based development and innovations. The Queensland State Government and Brisbane City Council invested  for both Queensland State Library (located at the heart of Brisbane City) and Brisbane City libraries (located each suburbs) and all have free wifi access facility.

No questions about the efforts of Moreton Bay Region council try to improve other areas of infrastructure facilities development including the 12.6 Km Moreton Bay Rail Link, also known as the Kippa-Ring rail line, Redcliffe railway and Petrie to Kippa-Ring railway, is a $1.15 billion railway project will be open late 2016.

Also Moreton Bay Region council spent $50 million in August 2015 to buy former Petrie Paper mill for future Morton Bay Region University Precinct.

I need your help to support my campaign to ask the Moreton Bay City Council to solve this issue.

Wi-Fi (as noun) :  is a facility allowing computers, smartphones, or other devices to connect to the Internet or communicate with one another wirelessly within a particular area. It is a local area wireless computer networking technology that allows electronic devices to connect to the network, mainly using the 2.4 gigahertz (12 cm) UHF and 5 gigahertz (6 cm) SHF ISM radio bands.

Many devices can use Wi-Fi, e.g. personal computers, video-game consoles, smartphones, digital cameras, tablet computers and digital audio players. These can connect to a network resource such as the Internet via a wireless network access point. Such an access point (or hotspot) has a range of about 20 meters (66 feet) indoors and a greater range outdoors. Hotspot coverage can be as small as a single room with walls that block radio waves, or as large as many square kilometres achieved by using multiple overlapping access points (read more from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi).

Background/history of Wi-fi:

Who invented Wi-Fi: Wifi technology was patented by CSIRO and forms part of the 802.11a, 802.11g and 802.11n Wi-Fi standards and thus John O'Sullivan (read more : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_O'Sullivan_(engineer) J is also credited with the invention of WIFI. In 2009 O'Sullivan was awarded both the CSIRO Chairman's Medal and the Australian Prime Minister's Prize for Science.

CSIRO: One key patent for WiFi technology that has won patent litigation lawsuits and does deserve credit belongs to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) of Australia. CSIRO invented a chip which greatly improved the signal quality of WiFi.

According to PHYSORG, "The invention came out of CSIRO's pioneering work (during the 1990s) in radioastronomy, with a team of its scientists (led by Dr John O'Sullivan) cracking the problem of radio waves bouncing off surfaces indoors, causing an echo that distorts the signal. They overcame it by building a fast chip that could transmit a signal while reducing the echo, beating many of the major communications companies around the world that were trying to solve the same issue."

CSIRO credits the following inventors: Dr John O’Sullivan, Dr Terry Percival, Mr Diet Ostry, Mr Graham Daniels and Mr John Deane for creating this technology.

Thank you for your support.

Ayalew Shebeshi

Radcliffe city local resident.