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Financing Mechanisms for Locally Owned Internet Infrastructure
Key Guidance
Connectivity Capital;Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Internet Society;Connect Humanity (2022), 134 pp.
"The digital divide is not a problem the market alone will solve. We need to do things differently. Globally there is a growing movement of community connectivity providers — including community networks, municipal networks, cooperatives, and social enterprises — connecting underserved communiti
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Digital Public Goods Platforms for Development: The Challenge of Scaling
Information Society, volume 38, issue 5 (2022), pp. 364-376
"In this article we consider the notion of digital global public good and articulate our understanding of it. Against this conceptual foil, we examine the development of DHIS2 (District Health Information Software Version 2), a global health platform inspired by public goods, focusing on the paradox
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Public Money? Public Code! A Basic Guide to Open Source for Governments and Civil Society
Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Foundation (2022), 25 pp.
"The FNF Global Innovation Hub published in 2022 this guide using easily understandable language and examples of daily scenario that civil servants and the public encounter to help readers to painlessly grasp technical terms such as open source, FLOSS software, and open standard. Also, the Guide exp
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In Search of Platform Cooperatives in South Africa
Cape Town: Research ICT Africa (2022), 52 pp.
"This study argues for the diversification of South Africa's digital economy, as it builds a case for the support of platform co-operatives, which are worker-owned and managed social enterprises that contribute to the diversification, decentralisation and democratisation of the digital economy by fo
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Digital Civil Society: Access OpenTech
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2022), 52 pp.
"Both the challenges to a democratic internet and challenges to internet access make clear that good digital products accessible to us all are not natural byproducts of digitalisation. Instead, they require coordinated proactive and joint efforts by the global community in order to come into being.
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Cultivating a Feminist Community Network: Reflections of Practices in the Quilombo of Ribeirão Grande/Terra Seca
Feminist Internet Research Network;Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2022), 25 pp.
"This article is an outcome of an actionresearch project that gathered community members, farmers, technologists, agroecologists and community network practitioners to make possible a community network in the quilombo of Ribeirão Grande/Terra Seca, located in Barra do Turvo city, São Paulo state,
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Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2022), xi, 218 pp.
"David Nemer draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork to provide a rich account of how favela residents engage with technology in community technology centers and in their everyday lives. Their stories reveal the structural violence of the information age. But they also show how those oppressed by
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HF Radio: Guide for Facilitators and Community Installers
Philadelphia: Rhizomatica Communications (2022), 24 pp.
"The purpose of this guide is to share the basics of installing a solar-powered HF radio station. For some years now, Rhizomatica has been working to “modernize” HF technology, allowing the transmission and reception of digital information. HF technology offers many advantages for autonomous com
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HF rádio: Guia para facilitadores comunitários
Philadelphia: Rhizomatica Communications (2022), 24 pp.
Tseltal and Zapoteco Shared Networks: The Paths Towards a Pluriversal Internet
Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania (2022), 23 pp.
"Fernanda R. Rosa explores the Indigenous networks, principles, and practices of internet infrastructure building and sharing in Tseltal and Zapoteco sovereign territories in Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mexico. More specifically, she uses the concept of shared networks to examine “the first mile signal-sh
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Redes compartidas de Tseltales y Zapotecas: Los caminos hacia un internet pluriversal
Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania (2022), 24 pp.
"Este trabajo de investigación examina el surgimiento de las redes compartidas en comunidades tseltales y zapotecas de Chiapas y Oaxaca (México): la primera milla de señal de internet compartido que articulan la infraestructura de interconexión y los valores de convivencia para extender el inter
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Deployment of a Community Information Platform in Santo Antão Island: A Case Study from Cabo Verde
In: C&T '21: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Communities & Technologies
New York: Association for Computing Machinery (2021), pp. 160-168
"We present a case study of a community media project development Alert4You and describe the process of fostering a local community information platform through socio-technical innovation in 4 rural and remote island communities of Santo Antão in Republic of Cabo Verde. A mix of analogous and digit
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Policy Brief and Recommendations for an Enabling Environment for Community Networks in Brazil
Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2021), 152 pp.
"The policy brief we hereby present to the Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) includes recommendations and specific proposals to enable community networks in Brazil, considering extensive research in both the global and Brazilian context, the state of the art of these small, not-f
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Manual de redes comunitárias
Key Guidance
Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2021), 90 pp.
"Este manual reúne informações a partir de experiências concretas de redes comunitárias no Brasil e América Latina para responder a perguntas como: o que são redes comunitárias? Que tipos existem? Como planejar, implementar, instalar e gerir uma rede comunitária? Dessa maneira, esta publica
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Technological autonomy as a constellation of experiences: A guide to collective creation and development of training programmes for technical community promoters
Mexico City: Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2021), 95 pp.
Digital Skills Insights
Geneva: ITU (2021), xii, 142 pp.
"The eight articles in the publication can be broadly grouped into two main sets. The first set discusses the different types of digital skills required from a more academic perspective, in particular in the context of the pandemic and post-pandemic period, as countries accelerate their move towards
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Digital Inclusion of the Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia: Remote Virtual Mechanism for Usability of Telecentres Amongst Indigenous Peoples
Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC), volume 87, issue 4, e12171 (2021), 14 pp.
"Turning to an ICT-based community development known as the Telecentre Programme amongst Orang Asli, an indigenous people groups in Peninsular Malaysia, this paper describes why a remote virtual management devise was invented to encounter challenges related to rugged terrain constraints, which would
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El software libre en la radio: Migrar la tecnología
Asociación Latinoamericana de Educación Radiofónica (ALER);Red Radios Comunitarias y Software Libre (2020), 39 pp.
"Este manual no pretende en ningún caso ser conclusivo, ni ofrecer recetas para migrar a software libre, quiere ser un espacio que reúne experiencias como coordenadas comunes de la brújula que marca la política tecnológica y de contenido de ALER. Por ello, dejamos abierta la posibilidad de segu
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Open Source Documentation Guide
#ASKnet;rOg agency for open culture & critical transformation (2020), 2 pp.
"This Open Source Documentation Guide aims to help you understand what you can do to prepare real open source documentation, how you come up with open source solutions, finalised products and overcome challenges in process and methods." (Page 2)
Exposing the Invisible: The Kit
Berlin: Tactical Tech (2020), 96 pp.
"The Kit is a collaborative, self-learning resource that makes investigative techniques and tools used by experienced investigators more accessible to people and communities who feel motivated to start their own investigations, collect and verify information, build evidence and create a better under
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