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"The 43 country reports included in this year’s Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) capture the different experiences and approaches in setting up community networks across the globe. They show that key ideas, such as participatory governance systems, community ownership and skills transfe
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Community Networks Guide
Earth Defenders (2024), 19 pp.
From community networks to shared networks: The paths of Latin-Centric Indigenous networks to a pluriversal internet
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 11 (2023), pp. 2326-2344
"This article examines, with ethnographic lenses, the emergence of shared networks in the Tseltal and Zapoteco communities in Chiapas and Oaxaca (Mexico). ‘Shared networks’ are first-mile signal-sharing practices that articulate interconnection infrastructure and values of coexistence to, in the
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Manual: Instructivo con diseños y planos para construir antenas guía de ondas
Córdoba: [no publisher] (2023), 19 pp.
Codesigning community networking literacies with rural/remote Northern Indigenous communities in Northwest Territories, Canada
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, volume 29, issue 1: zmad042 (2023), 13 pp.
"Digital literacy research and practice typically presume certain conditions, such as an urban orientation and adequate, affordable access to connectivity and devices. But these conditions are not universal; for example, people in small, rural/remote Indigenous communities may seek to balance connec
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The Life and Death of SNET, Havana’s Alternative Internet
Rest of World, October 8 (2023)
"[...] in 2011, a group of more than 100 Havana residents decided to unify their hyperlocal networks into a larger structure. The Havana “street network” (or SNET) would soon become one of the largest such community networks in the world. At its peak, user estimates hovered around 100,000 IP add
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HF rádio: Guia para facilitadores comunitários
Philadelphia: Rhizomatica Communications (2022), 24 pp.
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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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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"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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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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Los desafíos a las televisiones en América Latina: Cultura política, comunicación pública e innovación
Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes; Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2021), x, 390 pp.
"Pensar la relevancia de la televisión hoy significa abordar los desafíos democráticos que ella enfrenta respecto a las coyunturas políticas, el contexto de convergencia mediática, el papel de los medios públicos y los procesos de innovación y ruptura en la ficción y en los géneros informat
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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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Connected: How a Mexican Village Built its Own Cell Phone Network
Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press (2020), xiii, 259 pp.
"This is the true story of how, against all odds, a remote Mexican pueblo built its own autonomous cell phone network – without help from telecom companies or the government. Anthropologist Roberto J. González paints a vivid and nuanced picture of life in a Oaxaca mountain village and the collect
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