• A multi-disciplinary meeting to organise a community rag week, where police and

ambulance staff, highways and other council workers, plus the local MP might all
meet at the university to talk to the student union, all using their own online
resources back at base to plan, schedule and research.
• A school where health visitors attend to immunise the children, police visit to teach
road safety and council workers provide estate services and meal deliveries etc.
• An elderly person is recovering in hospital after an assault and while there, needs
contact with social services, community health workers and the police.
• Heavy snowfall prevents council workers from reaching their building, but by prior
arrangement, they can get to the local fire station and temporarily work from there.
• An international event like Tour de France comes to town and outdoor govroam
coverage allows coordination between police, medical and council staff to manage
the crowds.
• A health trust organises a conference for doctors from all over the country and
doesn’t have to budget or plan for networking, as there is already govroam in its
conference centre.
• Council workers can use any room in the building for tasks that require
connectivity, not just designated areas.

• Who’s using govroam?

• Such multi-tenanted sites are already being used in Leeds, where govroam is in
place as part of the Yorkshire and Humberside Public Services Network (YHPSN).
• Another PSN that has adopted govroam is Kent, where every local authority in
the county has rolled it out; govroam is now available at more than 250 sites and
rising and work is continuing to connect the whole of Kent’s PSN, which has more
than 370,000 users across nearly 1,200 sites.
• Govroam has also been deployed in parts of London and there’s a new lobby
group, Connectivity Over London, which is looking to champion the use of both
govroam and its sister service for the education sector, eduroam, across the
capital. This would link hundreds of universities and public-sector locations.
• There is also keen interest from PSNs in many other parts of the UK. The service is
not, however, limited to PSNs: the fastest growing adopter of govroam to date is
the NHS.