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The Rise of the Network Commons: A History of Community Infrastructure

Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2025), 107 pp.
"More than a dozen experts provide deep insights in stories, research reports, and geographical studies of digital literacy and inclusion models, all from a multi-disciplinary perspective that includes engineering, social sciences, and education. Digital Literacy and Inclusion also highlights a show ... more
"Der Einsatz von Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) im Sinne des Gemeinwohls steckt noch in einer Erprobungsphase. Dieses Policy Paper präsentiert empirische Ergebnisse der Civic Coding-Studie, die die empirischen Befunde aus 20 Expert*innen-Interviews und zehn Fallstudien aus unterschiedlichen gemeinwo ... more
"We discuss how a capability approach to information technology in neighbourhoods with low social capital can create embedded and sustainable Community Technology Partnerships (CTPs) that connect residents and institutions together, reducing barriers to social participation and collaborative action. ... more
"Mehr Freiheit und mehr Demokratie waren die großen Versprechen des Internets. Doch inzwischen konzentriert sich die Macht bei einigen wenigen Tech-Giganten. Dabei bietet das Netz selbst eine Lösung, um sein ursprüngliches Freiheitsversprechen zu bewahren: die nichtkommerzielle digitale Gegenwelt ... more

Creating Community-Driven Datasets: Insights from Mozilla Common Voice Activities in East Africa

Bonn; Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2023), 23 pp.

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. ... more

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 ... more
"Museums and archives all over the world digitize their collections and provide online access to heritage material. But what factors determine the content, structure and use of these online inventories? This book turns to India and Europe to answer this question. It explains how museums and archives ... more
"Understanding and improving the science behind the algorithms that run our lives is quickly becoming one of the most pressing issues of this century. Traditional solutions, such as laws, regulations and watchdog groups, have proven woefully inadequate, at best. Derived from the cutting-edge of scie ... more
"This document describes how to enable mobile and desktop software to support a written language. The recommended implementation allows native speakers to communicate online, share knowledge and documents, and to use software and devices that would otherwise be inaccessible to them. The intended aud ... more
"The last 25 years have seen a small revolution in our approach to the understanding of new technology and information systems. It has become a founding assumption of computer-supported cooperative work and human–computer interaction that in the future, if not already, most computer applications w ... more

Asamblea de Migrantes Indígenas, 10 años de experiencia comunitaria y software libre

México, DF: Asamblea de Migrantes Indígenas de la Ciudad de México;Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung (2011), 151 pp.
"Las comunidades de migrantes indígenas han podido desarrollar, con su propia iniciativa y recursos, distintos proyectos de educación y formación intercultural, que van desde la formación de bandas filarmónicas y grupos de danza, hasta la operación de centros de producción radiofónica, en lo ... more

Understanding Community Media

London et al.: Sage (2010), xii, 410 pp.
"With contributions from an international team of well-known experts, media activists, and promising young scholars, this comprehensive volume examines community-based media from theoretical, empirical, and practical perspectives. More than 30 original essays provide an incisive and timely analysis ... more
"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 ... more
"Community Informatics (CI) is the application of information and communications technologies (ICTs) to enable community processes and the achievement of community objectives. CI goes beyond the “Digital Divide” to making ICT access usable and useful to excluded populations and communities for l ... more