http://www.thersa.org/projects/connected-communities A projcet of the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) in GB to explore how social capital and social networks can be better understood and used to create the communities that we want to live in.
http://www.connectedcommunities.co.uk/ a next generation broadband wireless network connecting businesses, teleworkers, schools, community centres, airports, post offices, remote learning centres, doctors, hospitals, and citizens across the populated islands of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.