The institute connected him with Alyx Baldwin, a graduate student at the time in Parsons’ Design and Technology program who was writing a thesis on mesh networks. criticism that the city was letting a few giant utilities — with little accountability to customers and a long history of complaints about poor service — continue to dominate the marketplace. In 2022, a report by NYC Comptroller Brad Lander and the Urban Ocean Lab touted the mesh network as an example of the kind of community-owned infrastructure that the city ought to support to make itself more resilient