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Telecommunications Reclaimed: A Hands-On Guide to Networking Communities
Key Guidance
Internet Society (2019), 255 pp.
"This book is a guide on how to build a community network, a shared local telecommunications infrastructure, managed as a commons, to access the internet and other digital communications services. It was written collectively by a group of community network pioneers in Europe, activists and researche
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Bottom-up Connectivity Strategies: Community-Led Small-Scale Telecommunication Infrastructure Networks in the Global South
Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2019), 206 pp.
Global Information Society Watch 2018: Community Networks
Association for Progressive Communications (APC);International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2018), 259 pp.
"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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Marcos regulatorios para las redes comunitarias: Argentina, Brasil, Colombia y México
Derechos Digitales (2018), 19 pp.
Spectrum Innovation for Small-Scale Community-Owned Mobile Telephony: Strategic Considerations
AMARC World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters;World Association for Christian Communication (WACC);FAO (2017), 39 pp.
"This manuscript documents an innovative approach to providing access to mobile telephony and eventually internet services to communities in remote, rural areas. The innovation consists of the use of new technologies to access previously unused spectrum in these areas, and of a participatory and com
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Radios, redes e internet para la transformación social
Quito: Ediciones CIESPAL (2017), 286 pp.
"En el “Seminario Latinoamericano: Internet, Redes Sociales y Radios Comunitarias” se busco conjuntamente entre académicos, activistas de medios, comunicadores comunitarios y gestores culturales, exponer una gran diversidad de reflexiones acerca del estado de la comunicación en la región desd
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Community Mobile Telephony Manual: Connecting the Next Billion
Redes por la Diversidad, Equidad y Sustentabilidad (2017), 57 pp.
Community Networks: The Internet by the People, for the People. Official Outcome of the UN IGF Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity
Top Insights
Rio de Janeiro: Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da Fundação Getulio Vargas (2017), 244 pp.
"This volume is structured in two sections exploring benefits, challenges and opportunities for community networks and analysing a series of community network case studies and forward-looking proposals, from which useful recommendations can be drawn. As a conclusion, this book includes the updated v
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Manual de telefonía celular comunitaria: Conectando al siguiente billón
Key Guidance
México, DF: Redes por la Diversidad, Equidad y Sustentabilidad (2016), 57 pp.
"En 2013 inició operaciones la primera red de Telefonía Celular Comunitaria indígena en la comunidad Villa Talea de Castro en la Sierra Norte del estado de Oaxaca, en un esquema de red privada y utilizando un segmento del espectro atribuido a uso libre. En 2014, la entonces llamada Comisión Fede
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Mobile Technology Handbook
Washington, DC: Pact (2014), 51 pp.
"This handbook is intended to give people involved in international development work a framework for getting started with mobile technology. It is meant to be paired with training slides that provide more examples and context. It was created using training resources developed by myself and by Alison
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Favela Digital: O Outro Lado da Tecnologia
Vitoria: GSA Grafica e Editora (2013), 128 pp.
"The idea for this book came up during the fieldwork I did in Vitória, Brazil for my doctoral dissertation. My research aims to understand the experience of marginalized people in community technology centers and how this experience informs the ways we think about what constitutes “empowerment”
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Mobile Broadcasting for Community Radio Stations
Onto It Media;Community Broadcasting Foundation (2009), 40 pp.
"Radio stations have performed ‘Outside (away from the studio) Broadcasts' for decades using various telecommunications and antenna technology. Many of these resources are expensive, require a high level of technical expertise, and access to special telecommunications services. New mobile broadcas
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Wireless Networking in the Developing World: A Practical Guide to Planning and Building Low-Cost Telecommunications Infrastructure
Key Guidance
Limehouse Book Sprint Team, 2nd ed. (2007), 415 pp.
Community Informatics in Latin America and the Caribbean
Journal of Community Informatics, volume 3, issue 3 (2007), various pag.
"Este número refleja la diversidad de iniciativas que están llevando a cabo tanto en el terreno, con implementaciones de informática comunitaria que van de telecentros a apoyo a migrantes, a sistemas de soporte al desarrollo rural. Con casos y ejemplos de unos diez países de la region, también
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A Digital Inclusion Advocacy Toolkit: Bridging the Digital Divide by Winning Community Benefits in Municipal Broadband Projects
Oakland, Cal.: Media Alliance (2007), 20 pp.
"This toolkit is a resource for community members who want to advance digital inclusion in their city, town, or county that is exploring a broadband/ high-speed Internet initiative. Municipalities are considering many different technologies to increase broadband access - from wireless to fiber - and
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Community-Based Networks and Innovative Technologies: New Models to Serve and Empower the Poor
New York: UNDP (2005), 183 pp.
Village Phone Replication Manual: Creating Sustainable Access to Affordable Telecommunications for the Rural Poor
New York: United Nations ICT Task Force (2005), 178 pp.
