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[CNSIG-Council] Fwd: Re: ISOC - CL : Policy brief: Innovative Licensing Paper for review and input

by Nicolás Echániz

Hello all, I'm forwarding this e-mail from Konstantinos (ISOC-Policy) in case you want to contribute with your comments. The link he points to is not working, you should use this one instead: https://isoc.box.com/v/policybriefs-preview Cheers, NicoEchániz -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: ISOC - CL : Policy brief: Innovative Licensing Paper for review and input Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 08:29:34 +0000 From: Konstantinos Komaitis <komaitis(a)isoc.org> To: nicoechaniz(a)altermundi.net <nicoechaniz(a)altermundi.net> Hi Nico, yes please — do share it and if you can ask them to send comments to you or me directly that would be super helpful. Thanks Konstantinos Dr. Konstantinos Komaitis Director, Policy Development The Internet Society > On Mar 19, 2018, at 2:34 AM, Nicolás Echániz > <nicoechaniz(a)altermundi.net <mailto:nicoechaniz@altermundi.net>> wrote: > > Hi Konstantinos, > > Can I share this e-mail directly in the CNSIG Council and Regulation > Working Group? > > I believe people there can contribute to this document. > > Cheers, > NicoEchániz > > > On 03/15/2018 01:05 PM, Konstantinos Komaitis via Internet Society wrote: >> Dear colleagues, >> >> For the past couple of years, we have been providing you additional >> materials that can be used to inform policymakers and other local >> stakeholders about key Internet issues, we will continue the release of >> policy briefs throughout this year. >> >> The goal of these briefing papers is to provide a more specific Internet >> Society perspective, including the guiding principles we hold important >> for addressing various issues. For this year, many of these paper will >> be driven by our focus on our campaigns - IoT, Community Networks, MANRS >> and the Multistakeholder model. >> >> Today, however, we are inviting you to preview our paper on Innovative >> Licensing for Community Networks (please to bear in mind that this paper >> is limited only to community networks). You can view PDF versions >> at: isoc.app.box.com/folder/4696046102 >> <http://isoc.app.box.com/folder/4696046102> >> <https://isoc.app.box.com/folder/4696046102> >> >> During this preview period, which will run until *March 30, 2018** *we >> would be particularly interested in your input on the following: >> >> 1. As "briefing papers" the aim has been to keep the overviews >> concise, while providing links to more in depth information. At the >> same time, however, we would like to know: Are there any /major/ points >> that we missed in the coverage of the issues? /We would appreciate if >> you could use the "Comment" function in Box to provide your feedback on >> the relevant papers. The Comment field can be seen to the right of each >> document preview in Box./ >> >> 2. The papers have been written so they would be relevant on a global >> basis, but could be used as a base to tailor local positions. The >> online version will ideally have a "Regional Considerations" section >> that we would like to populate with information, contributed by our >> Chapters and members, about how these policy issues are addressed in >> different regions of the world. We would be interested in knowing if >> Chapters or members would be interested in contributing to such a >> section. >> >> Due to our participation at WSIS next week, where we will be talking >> about community networks as one of the means to connect the unconnected >> in remote and underserved areas, we also plan to publish this as a >> discussion paper for wider consumption and input. For those of you >> attending WSIS, please help us by sharing this paper. >> >> We welcome your comments and look forward to speaking with you more >> about all of these policy and Internet governance throughout the year. >> >> The papers will eventually be made available on-line in both HTML and >> PDF format at http://www.internetsociety.org/policybriefs. Same as last >> year, while they will initially be posted in English, a Spanish and >> French version of each document will also be produced. >> >> Best >> >> Konstantinos >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> komaitis(a)isoc.org <mailto:komaitis@isoc.org> >> Director, Policy Development > >

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[CNSIG-Council] ISOC and WSIS

by Nicolás Echániz

Hello all, I'm sharing a document that Jane Coffin and Konstantinos Komaitis from ISOC have prepared for the ISOC campaign on Community Networks during WSIS. They presented this document during an audio-call with staff and other people working with Community Networks in ISOC: Joyce Dogniez, Luis Miguel Martinez, Aziz Soltobaev, Sandro Karumidze, Ucha Seturi, Talant, Konstantinos Komaitis, Jane Coffin, Maarit Palovirta, Christine Saegesser, Nicolas Seidler. They asked if the CNSIG would participate in this year's WSIS to which I answered that we are just starting to work together, we have elected Working Group coordinators and we are in the process of defining the Working Groups road-maps; so we won't be taking part in WSIS this year, but we will include such events in our plans. They have asked if our members would like to send video or written material to be shared during ISOC's WSIS campaign. Please share links to material you would like to share with ISOC for this. I would also like to ask who from our group is attending the event. Even if we don't have a formal meeting there, it would be great if those coming can take the opportunity to meet. In the case of AlterMundi, Florencia López Pezé will take part in the panel: "Community networks: Can the unconnected connect themselves?" on the 19th during the morning. Cheers! NicoEchániz

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[CNSIG-Council] CNSIG: Approving WG coordinators and next meeting

by Sol Luca de Tena

Hello all, We are reaching the end of February and according to our last meeting's decisions a few things should take place. *Working Group coordinators:* Statements of intent have been received for every group except Training. According to our decision: 1.2. Coordinators acceptance will be made through the mailing list within 30 days starting on Feb 1st... As the council we should formalize the coordinators positions. Let's take until *Friday (March 2nd**) *to send any questions or requests for clarifications to the proposed coordinators: Thiago for Regulation, Panos for Social impact and myself (Nico) for Tech. If we receive no queries, or all queries are clarified, we will proceed to formally name the WG coordinators. If the Training WG has no formal coordinator for the time being we don't think it is a problem, but would that the group start to organize to work until someone steps forward for that role. *Next general meeting:* The next general meeting was planned for mid-March, we would like to suggest that we prioritise the WGs getting started, and postpone our general meeting for another month. Once the coordinators of the WGs are formally accepted the main responsibility of the coordinator is to ensure the WGs keeps working. From our side all current pending issues can be addressed through email, or/and the back-log. This way the time given to the SIG in the next month can be focused on WG activities. The next general meeting can therefore be used to share and review the WG work. Kindly let us know if you don't agree with this. If we receive no objection by the 2nd March we will send a general meeting poll for the first week of April. Cheers, Nico and Sol -- Sol Luca de Tena e: sol(a)zenzeleni.net c: (+27/0) 839 47 4946 w: zenzeleni.net Skype: sol.lucadetena https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxTPSWMX26M *Zenzeleni Networks NPC* - Winner of Best Innovation with Social Impact Award, Innovation Bridge 2017 - Finalist of Mozilla Equal Rating Innovation Challenge, 2017

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[CNSIG-Council] Policy and Regulation WG

by novaes＠riseup.net

Dear SIG Members, Sorry for the delay: I'm in field-work in Atins with Troian, from CooLab, looking for alternatives for local communication in deep Maranhão. Currently, there's only satelite connection, so when it rains, we became offline. We've tried to follow the kick-off meeting, but we didn't get it. Please, find below a few lines of my proposal to the Policy and Regulation Wroking Group. best regards, Thiago Novaes +++ Policy and Regulation Network Communities – SIG – ISOC Jan 2018 Spectrum has been a crucial and public resource for communication in the last one hundred years. Since the introduction of radio, the potential to amplify communication between people has been widely discussed. However, worldwide spectrum is under-used and most of the cities are not using even half of their allocated spectrum. Although there is a technical evolution largely taking place, technical alienation makes difficult the development of new possibilities characteristic of technologies such as new multimedia communication platforms. The dominant trend in public discussion around digital technologies is frequently limited to how it is now possible to receive more content with more lines and pixels (high-definition). Whilst governments and the private sector pretend to the general public that the spectrum is a scarce resource, today this is certainly not true, and there is a lot of unused spectrum available. The appeal of revenue involved in spectrum management is very powerful making it difficult for regulators and national Governments to let go of exclusive commercial use of the spectrum. The restriction of the use of the spectrum creates an environment where pricing determines the actors and rules for access, imposing a commercial relationship between civil society and this fundamental right and ample resource. The current debate about spectrum management considers that new technologies can provide more efficient and equitable use of the spectrum, leading us to a paradigm shift: the abundance of the spectrum. In this context, what are the opportunities and challenges for Communities Networks to use spectrum, particularly in the transition from analogue to digital technologies? The use of the spectrum in contemporary and diverse cultures requires a socio-technical thinking, in an effort to reduce technological alienation. Since not everyone has access to the same digital development, we have a scenario where both analogue and digital technologies share the potential of empowering far-to-reach communities, who themselves desire to build communication networks and tools collaboratively. Whilst these new media aesthetic objects have been understood mostly by their economic potential, as instruments of work, or, ideed, of consumption, Community Networks around the globe are exploring multiple modalities of human-machine relation emerged from local, ethnic and experimental uses. Mesh networks, community cell phones, digital television, digital radio, different communication infrastructures can be finally combined to interactive services, and work as an effective tool which helps to communicate over large territories. Combining old and new communicational devices, Network Communities can produce their own information and make it available to other distant and/or isolated locations through lower energy consuming equipments as well as connecting to the Internet to amplify locally and globally their communicational public sphere. Activities: Organize strategic meetings with SIG-members, technicians, authorities and community leaders; Co-produce pedagogical material with outlines for use of different digital devices specific to locality and dissiminate information through public workshops; Mediate the institutional relations between key partners and potential collaborators from different sectors; Participate in public debates, and follow specialized telecom news concerning regulation, technological advances and current challenges to the effective use of the spectrum through different digital communication infrastructures. Present papers to academic and activist communities to widen discussion and attract further specialist collaborators. Experience: Since 1997 I have been involved in local communication projects: Radio Muda, a free radio installed in the centre of the University campus which lead me to offer hundreds of worshops around Brazil, Latin America and Europe. In 2003 and 2004, I became member of the Brazilian digital television research group, responsible for interactive services. In 2005, I was invited to coordinate the digital worshops for the National Cultural Policy “Pontos de Cultura”, and collaborated as advisor of Brazilian gorvernment during the WSIS, in Tunis. In 2011, I became General Secretary of the Brazilian Digital Radio Assoation, a group of researchers dedicated to develop alternatives for autonomous global digital communication through radio technologies. Currently, I’m post-doc researcher in a federal university in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, lecture in Radio Political Economy, working with CooLab, building communication infrastructure in the Brazilian Amazon. In 2017 I have been involved in the organization of some spectrum related activities: - International Conference Spectrum Communication Society – ESC IV (Nov. 13th and 14th 2017) http://esc4.abradig.org.br/ - Round table in the Internet Brazilian Forum (Pre-IGF, Nov. 15th 2017) http://forumdainternet.cgi.br/files/16462.pdf - Amazon Digital Television Seminar (Dec. 1th 2017) http://tvdigitalamazonia.produtoracolaborativa.com/ Responsible for: https://simondongilbert.wordpress.com/ http://www.tsonami.cl/radio/programa-para-raio/ Collaboration: http://www.coolab.org/ http://drm-brasil.org/ http://radiolivre.org/ http://muda.radiolivre.org/ Portuguese translator for http://apc.org/ Reference Article: Digital Radio in Brazil: Not left, nor right. Let’s move forward http://revista.ibict.br/liinc/article/view/3768

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[CNSIG-Council] [Decision reached] ... during the Kick off Meeting - 20180126

by Nicolás Echániz

Hi everyone, Following you will find the decisions reached during the KoM. 1. Process to define WG's coordinators 1.1. Coordinator statements of interest submission within 5 days (from Jan 26 to Jan 31). 1.2. Coordinators acceptance will be made through the mailing list within 30 days starting on Feb 1st. 1.3. WG's can start chatting amongst themselves before the Coordinator's nomination. 1.4. There is no formal repesentation of the WG's until there is a Coordinator defined. 2. Decision making process 2.1. Operative decisions that can be retracted do not require prior voting, just informing. 2.2. Procedure for decisions that need voting: 2.2.1. Decisions can be made over e-mail threads. E-mails must be marked with [Decision] 2.2.2. Default timeframe for decisions is 5 days. It can be extended by 5 additional days upon request of council members. 2.2.3. If there are not enough votes (51% of organizations represented) the decision cannot be made. 2.2.4. After 5 days, a Council officer will share the result of the vote, what is the quorum, and other relevant details. The e-mail will be marked with the tag [Decision reached] 2.2.5. Prioritized backlog with pending identified definitions will be public and kept updated by Council officers. All this decisions were reached by unanimity on Jan 26 2018 during a virtual meeting. 9 out of 11 organizations where represented by: Gio(Ninux) Nico Echániz (AlterMundi) Nico Pace (AlterMundi) Sol Luca de Tena (Zenzeleni) Vassilis (Sarantaporo.gr) Panayotis Antoniadis (NetHood) Manuela (Atalaya Sur) Damián (Atalaya Sur) Nicholas Kourtzis (Sarantaporo.gr) Jaspreet Singh (GramMarg) Peter Bloom (Rhizomatica) Claudio (Ninux) Bruno Vianna (Coolab) Cheers! Nico, Sol, Rodri

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[CNSIG-Council] Kick Off Meeting, today 16:00 UTC

by Nicolás Echániz

Please try to join the meeting 5' before 16:00 The meeting pad with the agenda and where we will be collectively taking notes is: https://pad.codigosur.org/CNSIG_Meeting01 Please let us know if you have any issue with your Mumble connection. See you in 30' ! Cheers, NicoEchániz

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[CNSIG-Council] Training, capacity building and knowledge sharing WG withdrawal

by bruno vianna

Dear all I decided to withdraw my self nomination for the coordination of the Training WG. I don't think I'll have enough time this year to dedicate myself to coordinate this effort. But do count on me as part of the group. I also just wrote Thiago Novaes asking his stance on his Policy WG nomination. It was great to hear you all earlier! Regards Bruno -- bruno(a)pobox.com ▀─█▄██▄▀▄ http://brunovianna.net ─█▄██▄▀█▀█▄ skype: randomico▀─█▄██▄▀█▀█▄▌██─█▌█▌

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[CNSIG-Council] Organizational and technical details for the meeting

by Nicolás Echániz

Here we share some suggestions for the meeting * If you are new to mumble, try it before the meeting. Write to us if you have issues. We will also be available from 15' before the scheduled time to deal with technical difficulties. * Please be online at least 5' before the scheduled time so we can start on time. * Have a laptop available so you can easily follow and contribute to the collaborative notes (might be difficult from a phone). * Have earphones to avoid audio loops. Mumble configuration: You can download the client from mumble.com or install it from your package manager if you are using Linux. For Android phones you can install Plumble from the Play Store. We will use the AureaSocial server. Use this information to configure the server: label: whatever you like address: MUMBLE.AUREASOCIAL.ORG port: 64738 username: choose one password: no need to set one Configure "push to talk" method, which is the best for crowded meetings. Please don't leave your Mumble installation and configuration for last minute. Cheers, Nico, Sol, Rodri

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[CNSIG-Council] CNSIG - Some details for the KoM

by Rodrigo Monelos

Hi everyone, Please consider this suggestions for tomorrow's meeting - If you are new to mumble, *try it before* the meeting. Writte us if you have issues that can't fix. We will also be available from *15' before* the scheduled time to deal with technical issues. - Be online at least 5' before the scheduled time so we *start on time*. - Have a* laptop available* so you can follow and contribute to the collaborative notes. - *Have earphones* to avoid audio loops. *Mumble configuration* - We will use the *aureasocial* server. Use this information to configure it <https://www.mumble.com/support/how-to-connect-to-a-mumble-server.php> : - Tag: Aureasocial - Address: mumble.aureasocial.org - Port: 64738 - User name: <choose your own one> - Configure <https://www.mumble.com/support/mumble-server-push-to-talk.php> "push to talk" method Please let us know if you have doubts or comments. See you on Friday 26th January *16h00-18h00 UTC*. Regards, Rodrigo, Sol and Nico

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[CNSIG-Council] Statement of Intention for Tech WG coordination role

by Nicolás Echániz

(I'm sharing my own statement, as proposed in the KoM preparation thread, to "break the ice" and invite every other proposed WG coordinator to also share theirs) ======================== I have worked for the past 15 years in many aspects of Community Networking, in particular during the past 6 years I have coordinated many free software projects related to the deployment of "geek free" mesh networks for under-served communities. This process has involved numerous efforts to help merge different initiatives from a number of communities into collaboration projects where we can better ... our collective efforts. From these efforts LibreMesh was born as a firmware created by members of AlterMundi, Guifi.net, Ninux from the merge of their respective mesh firmware projects. LibreMap was also the result of merging Freifunk's OpenWifiMap and AlterMundi's AlterMap. During 2017, we embarked in our first open hardware project: LibreRouter. As a coordinator for this project I was amazed to see how a team of more than 20 people from every continent was able to work together towards a commong goal. We are now producing the second prototype and expect to have an initial LibreRouter batch around May 2018. In my role coordinating these and other cross-community initiatives I learned that there is much more we could be doing to collectively improve the technological base on which our networks are funded. There are frequent overlaps where we could create synergy and there is also unnecessary competition for development funding when we could coordinate better and think bigger. From my personal perspective, the first project the Tech WG should undertake is to create an internal survey of what technologies we are using, what are the scenarios where we deploy them, what are the shortcomings we have identified and what is the identified path forward in each community / organization. Studying the results of this survey we can have a better picture of where we are standing, what are the possible synergies now and what collective action we can undertake in the future. Important areas I imagine the Tech WG working on over time include: evaluation of our tech status quo and state of the art, development projects in every area of incumbency, help with lobbying for our market segment with commercial tech providers, undertaking standardization processes for technologies we use and develop, creating support channels for existing and new community network projects. In relation to the other WGs in the CNSIG, I can see a tight relation with all of them, both supporting their work, producing relevant information, identifying needs from our area in their fields and maintaining an alert attitude towards the real impact of our work at every step.

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