DC3 April 2019

dc3@listas.altermundi.net

7 participants
10 discussions

Batteries and Solar Systems for Community networks

by Glenn McKnight

https://www.engineeringforchange.org/webinar/battery-fundamentals-off-grid-… Hi This is part of a series by Dr. Louie Henry on Batteries today. Its part of a series on designing off the grid power He has a book available worth researching. I have added his contacted his info and a zipped file of he slides I captured today. Dr. Louie is a Fullbright scholar and worked in Malwali and a presenter at the GHTC Glenn Glenn McKnight NARALO Secretariat mcknight.glenn(a)gmail.com http://toronto.ieee.ca/ IEEE Toronto SIGHT Chair glenn.mcknight(a)ieee.org skype gmcknight twitter gmcknight 289-830 6259 . <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> Virus-free. www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

4 years, 9 months

A Community-Run ISP Is the Highest Rated Broadband Company in America

by Marco Zennaro

Interesting news: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ne5k5m/consumer-reports-broadban… <https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ne5k5m/consumer-reports-broadban…> Cheers, Marco Marco Zennaro, PhD // Research Officer // T/ICT4D Lab // ICTP // wireless.ictp.it

5 years, 8 months

Our website is down.. for how long now?

by Raoul Plommer

I just visited the http://commconnectivity.org/ and it doesn't resolve. Will we continue the work on the https://comcon.nu and redirect this domain that no one wanted to maintain? If people want, I can share editor credentials on comcon.nu and we should really keep updating it rather regularly AND share those posts in the social media, if we actually want some wider traction with our collaboration. I created all of this after our meeting in Mexico and I think we should really start showing (and updating) our presence now. I think this should really be a crowdsourced effort, since we're all volunteers here. -Raoul

5 years, 9 months

Catalytic intervention grants for a more sustainable community network environment

by Nicolas Pace

FYI: https://www.apc.org/en/35436 Catalytic intervention grants aim to support a more sustainable community network environment. To create such an environment, we have to explore ways to overcome the isolation of local community networks, improve their access to spectrum, actively foster their diversity and provide solutions for their resilience (e.g. alternative energy) as well as technological innovation. These grants are part of the project Connecting the unconnected: Supporting community networks and other community-based connectivity initiatives. https://www.apc.org/en/project/connecting-unconnected-supporting-community-… This call opens on 8 April 2019 and closes on 15 May 2019. Who can apply The call is open for all initiatives and projects directly working on or with community networks. The grant volume totals USD 180,000 available to applicants in the global South and countries listed as Official Development Assistance (ODA) recipients by the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) http://www.oecd.org/dac/financing-sustainable-development/development-finan…. The maximum amount requested per project can be USD 30,000 (or USD 40,000 for joint submissions). There is additional value if you have other sources of funding to complement these funds. Taking into account the costs of certain technologies, we are open to receiving proposals up to USD 60,000 if the applicants can justify the need for such an increased budget. We would like to point out that we especially encourage applications looking at community networks through an intersectional feminist lens. We highly encourage applications from community networks that are led by and/or working for the advancement of women, queer, trans and gender-diverse people, people living with disabilities, indigenous peoples as well as climate justice and land rights workers. In other words, priority will be given to initiatives led by women and other socially excluded groups such as queer, trans* and sex workers; groups working on protecting land rights; community networks working on advancing the role of women in CNs from inception to implementation; groups using innovative and eco-informed models for sustainability; and applicants whose work challenges hetero-patriarchy and cis-masculinities. What is a catalytic intervention To help you identify strategic interventions to strengthen a diverse and sustainable community network movement, we have compiled a short list of the types of projects being sought. Feel free to combine one or several of those objectives, or propose something different or new. Access to spectrum and corresponding regulation: Lots of innovative network initiatives struggle to get legal access to available spectrum. The current management of the airwaves and regulations oriented towards the business models of global telecom companies limit our ability to put into practice community-based approaches. We therefore embrace initiatives aiming to create replicable strategies for policy and regulatory changes as well as the creation of expanded conditions for networking practices. Some examples of this are liberating licensed spectrum for mobile community networks and developing approaches to enhance spectrum sharing or secondary use. Incorporation of new and different technologies: While wireless community networks have become local realities in many places, there is both a need to connect those local networks with upstream connectivity as well as to expand the types of technologies at the disposal of community networks to address current and future challenges. As an example, fibre optic technology responds to both of these issues and we welcome innovative ideas to put this technology, and others, within reach for communities. Women, queer, trans and gender-diverse networks: Once again, we encourage you to (re)think and (re)create networks through an intersectional feminist lens. Examples for pilot projects are community networks sensitive to gender, directly designed and run by women or open for queering as well as initiatives reflecting the different abilities of all possible users and collaborators and their environmental impact. Of course, intersections are possible and desired. What can you think of? Local and indigenous content production: Community networks are not only about enhancing the possibilities of connecting to the global internet; they are also about creating spaces for interpersonal communication and information sharing and conservation. Against the background of free and community broadcasting experiences, a broad range of informative, political and cultural uses of local digital networks appear and disappear. We are looking for your ideas around local media production and sharing, storage of information, community archives and other content-related operations. Network resiliency, development and environmentally viable energy for all: Whether due to power failures, lightning strikes or even politically motivated shutdowns of digital networks, community networks face lots of vulnerabilities. Simply keeping our networks running is a challenge we all face, and so we welcome proposals addressing topics such as alternative energy, site grounding and protection, circumvention, and so on. What kind of network resiliency and development is needed in your region? What is your plan to create it and how could it be shared by others in practical ways? We especially encourage proposals coming from informal urban settlements, rural and isolated areas, and indigenous territories. Indigenous-led networks, land rights and climate justice: Indigenous people carry a tremendous burden defending the water, land and environment. Many times their territories and ways of life are under attack. We invite indigenous communities to lead the design of CNs. We also invite them to innovate CNs in their languages to increase accessibility and preservation of language and culture, as well as include local knowledge and resistance to advance the resiliency of networks that are rendered vulnerable due to environmental and other human-related threats. Unlocking universal service funds: To promote universal communication services within national territories, many governments subsidise the deployment of infrastructure. Traditionally those funds have been used exclusively by large private and public companies – but things could change. We are looking for pilot projects that pave the way to unlocking universal service funds in a specific country for community-based networks and that are willing to share and replicate the experience across borders. Sustainability, regional and cross-regional consolidation of community networks: A community network cannot survive and thrive without a sustainability strategy. Costs for maintenance, legal orientation and innovation can become important financial burdens, especially as networks grow. We invite you to propose practical ideas that help foster the collaboration of local networks and consolidate the sharing of resources and technologies on a regional and cross-regional level in the global South. Networks led by people living with disabilities: In our commitment to inclusive and community-led networks, we invite communities constituted partially or as a whole by people living with disabilities to apply. Thereby we invite people living with disabilities to (re)gain control over the design and usability, and advance development and access of community networks. People living with disabilities are often excluded or discriminated against in relation to their involvement in community networks, whether it be from the design of community networks, to the assumptions that community members hold around someone’s ability to carry on a certain task or about their assumed needs. So, let’s connect with care and make visible what is often rendered invisible, unheard or inaccessible. We also invite communities not yet including people living with disabilities to be inclusive and aware of the needs of groups of people living with disabilities when leading work on community networks. How to apply Applicants should address one or several of the objectives mentioned above. They can also propose other kinds of interventions that they define as catalytic. In both cases, applicants are requested to suggest a strategic contribution to the community network movement. Go to this form to apply online for the catalytic intervention grant: https://inside.apc.org/node/add/subgrant-request?call=jtqVO4Z8ZEUyOVV98l42dg You can use this document https://www.apc.org/sites/default/files/Pathfinder_grant_APC_Subgrant_FORM_… to prepare your application before uploading to this form. Please use the budget template https://inside.apc.org/sites/default/files/Budget_template_Catalytic_Interv… https://inside.apc.org/sites/default/files/Budget_template_Catalytic_Interv… for your budget. In order to avoid losing your content, it is highly recommended that you develop your proposal off-line (e.g. using the above-referenced form), and only once you are done, copy the content into the online form. Make sure to keep your local copy as backup. This call opens on 8 April 2019 and closes on 15 May 2019. We look forward to receiving your proposals! If you have any question please contact pathfinder-grants(a)apc.org

5 years, 11 months

Circular economy summer school

by Michael J. Oghia

Hi everyone, The Life Cycle Summer School (LCSS <https://fslci.org/lcss/lcss2019/>) is looking for applicants to join them in Berlin from 28 August – 1 September 2019. I just received word that my application was accepted, and they are hoping to recieve additional applications. This year's theme is the life cycle toolbox for regional circular economy, and it might be relevant to your networks. More information available at: https://fslci.org/lcss/lcss2019/ Best, -Michael

6 years

Television

by sivasubramanian muthusamy

Dear Michael Interesting to find developments related to Telecom services in the Community sphere. Wondering if there are technical / business models for Community Satellite / Cable TV networks and if it would be feasible for small/moderate scale Community Cable networks to subscribe to TV channels such as HBO. May not really be a priority service segment, but when Telecom services, Cable are "bundled" with Community based Internet access, the feasibility is considerably improved. Might also lead to solutions such as separation of copyrighted content from open content. Sivasubramanian M On Mon, Apr 1, 2019, 4:06 PM Michael J. Oghia <mike.oghia(a)gmail.com> wrote: > FYI > > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Melissa Densmore <melissa.r.densmore(a)gmail.com> > Date: Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 12:04 PM > Subject: [gaia] CFP: Community-Based Telecoms Workshop in Vienna and Cape > Town - June 2019 > To: <africhi(a)googlegroups.com>, < > ictd-researchers-in-africa-network(a)googlegroups.com>, TIER < > tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu>, <hci4d(a)googlegroups.com>, InterSol2019 < > intersol2019(a)googlegroups.com>, gaia <GAIA(a)irtf.org> > > > > *Call for Participation* > > *Workshop on the Artful Integrations of Infrastructures by Community-Based > Telecoms * > > *3 or 4 June (to be confirmed), 2019* > > > *[summary]* > > The University of Cape and OVCOMM Dynamic will be co-hosting a workshop > concurrent with the a workshop in Vienna at the C&T conference > <https://2019.comtech.community/>. All communities and researchers > working on community-based telecoms (e.g. wikipedia deployments, community > networks, community radio) are invited to participate and share experiences > about how we make things work. If interested, please apply here > https://forms.gle/7tdBeG7G4KA6bzGSA or email mdensmore(a)cs.uct.ac.za by 20 > April 2019. > > > > *[long version]* > > This one-day workshop will be hosted both in Vienna and online during The 9th > International Conference on Communities and Technologies C&T > https://2019.comtech.community/ 3 - 7 June 2019. It focuses on the > experiences of communities that own and operate their own telecoms systems, > such as local Wi-Fi networks and radio. We will consider what communities > do to tackle the infrastructures, or taken-for-granted arrangements, that > affect deploying and adopting telecoms. > > > ICTs involve many infrastructures that arise from and support social, > technical, political, legal, administrative, methodological and > institutional structures and processes. Infrastructures can be physical > (e.g. cables); software (e.g. code); methodological (e.g. standards); > organizational (e.g. engineering professions); institutional (e.g. academic > structures); and, many more. Communities often devise ways to compensate > for constraints and weaknesses of infrastructures in their local telecom > projects. Communities have, for instance, tackled policy infrastructures, > because laws do not support their telecoms, and integrated their own social > infrastructures to align with their community values. > > > *Workshop Activities * > > We will facilitate conversations between members and users of > community-based telecoms, researchers, practitioners and activists. These > conversations aim for these different groups to: > > - • learn from each other's experiences in responding to > infrastructures; > - • recognize the ways infrastructures affect community-based > telecoms; > - • identify how community-based telecoms can influence future > infrastructures; > - • form relationships to enable ongoing sharing of experiences around > infrastructure. > > > We will use video-conferencing to connect directly to community-based > telecoms. A community network in South Africa has already agreed to > participate remotely, and we invite other community-based telecoms too (see > 2. below). > > > *How to Participate * > > We invite participation by members and users of community-based telecoms, > researchers, practitioners and activists involved/interested in local Wi-Fi > or GSM, hyperlocal radio or other local telecoms. To indicate your interest > please submit by *April 20 2019 *responses to the questions below. > > > You may respond using the online form https://forms.gle/7tdBeG7G4KA6bzGSA or > by emailing your responses to: mdensmore(a)cs.uct.ac.za: > > 1. Your details (name, email, project) > > 2. Your participation – if you will participate in Vienna, Cape Town, or > if you propose to host a workshop or participate remotely. If you propose > to host a workshop or participate remotely, please use the questions in the > form to guide you in providing details about how you will facilitate it. > > 3. Include a short file, which can be: > > • Media about a community-based telecom, e.g. a short text or audio > description of an initiative > > • Art depicting interactions between existing infrastructures, > community-based technologies and future infrastructures > > • A 2-page academic-style, position paper about infrastructures revealed > by, or created for, community-based telecoms > > • Something else that pertains to the workshop topic and is accessible to > both practitioners and academics > > > You will be required to sign into Google in order to upload your document. > Please submit up to one file (document, PDF, image, audio, video, zip) of > up to 100MB in size. All submissions must be in English. > > We will select participants based on how their submissions contribute > diverse experiences in ways that are accessible to diverse perspectives. > > > *Organisers * > > *Nicola J Bidwell *International University of Management, Namibia > > *Melissa Densmore *University of Cape Town, South Africa > > *André van Zyl *OVCOMM cooperative, Ocean View, South Africa > > *Sarbani Banerjee Belur *Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India > > *Nicolás Pace *Association for Progressive Communications and Altermundi, > Argentina > > *Nic Bidwell *is founding mentor of Groot Aub CN, Namibia, a mentor on > Afchix’s gender-sensitive CN project and, in 2018, conducted multiple > case-study research on CNs in six countries in the global south. In 2013 > she was awarded IFIP’s inaugural award for interaction design for social > and economic development for research that was a pre-cursor to Zenzeleni > CN. > > *Melissa Densmore *is a senior lecturer in UCT’s Centre in ICT4D, South > Africa. Her research explores community-based digital content creation for > CNs, and has previously included studying telecoms adoption in an NGO in > Uganda, and wireless infrastructure deployments in Ghana, India, and DR > Congo. > > *Sarbani Banerjee Belur *is a senior researcher on Gram Marg’s rural > broadband project, India, winner of Mozilla’s Equal Rating Innovation > Challenge. Since 2015 she has facilitated connectivity to remote villages. > Her research focuses on gendered use of connectivity and seeding CNs in > Indian villages. > > *Andrè van Zyl *is a Computer/IT Teacher at Ocean View Secondary School, > and a Director of the OVCOMM cooperative that administers a community > network in Ocean View, a town-ship in Cape Town, South Africa. > > *Nicolás Pace *is the Movement Building Coordinator for the Association > for Progressive Communication’s Local Access Networks initiative. He > supports CNs around the world, is part of AlterMundi, that develops models > and technologies for CNs, and REDES AC, that supports CNs in Indigenous > Mexico. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ICTDEVers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ictdevers+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to ictdevers(a)googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/ictdevers. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > _______________________________________________ > gaia mailing list > gaia(a)irtf.org > https://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/gaia > _______________________________________________ > DC3 mailing list > DC3(a)listas.altermundi.net > https://listas.altermundi.net/mailman/listinfo/dc3 >

6 years

Re: [DC3] 2019 ISIF Asia Grants and Awards applications open

by Jane Coffin

Sylvia – Could you also post to the GAIA list? Best, Jane Internet Society | www.internetsociety.org Skype: janercoffin Mobile/WhatsApp: +1.202.247.8429 From: <dc3-bounces(a)listas.altermundi.net> on behalf of Sylvia Cadena <sylvia(a)apnic.net> Reply-To: Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity <dc3(a)listas.altermundi.net> Date: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 at 2:44 AM To: Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity <dc3(a)listas.altermundi.net> Subject: [DC3] 2019 ISIF Asia Grants and Awards applications open *Apologies for cross posting* Hi everyone, The ISIF Asia call for grant proposals and award nominations opened yesterday. Your help to spread the word among your friends, colleagues and partners at Community Networks, small ISPs, NOGs, IXPs, participants you have meet at training events and conferences, etc will be really appreciated. They can help to promote the call in their communities, and they can apply themselves as well. Some of the best leads we have had in the past for good applications come from referrals from experts and practitioners like you ☺ If you can think of anyone that might have some interesting ideas on any of the two categories below, please let me know. I will be happy to follow-up with them and help them to prepare a submission on time for the selection process. Thank you all in advance for your help to promote this widely! Sylvia ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Sylvia Cadena | APNIC Foundation - Head of Programs | sylvia(a)apnic.net | http://www.apnic.foundation ISIF Asia, WSIS Champion on International Cooperation 2018 & 2019 | http://www.isif.asia | FB ISIF.asia | @ISIF_Asia | G+ ISIFAsia | 6 Cordelia Street, South Brisbane, QLD, 4101 Australia | PO Box 3646 | +10 GMT | skypeID: sylviacadena | Tel: +61 7 3858 3100 | Fax: +61 7 3858 3199 * Love trees. Print only if necessary. Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. 2019 ISIF Asia Grants and Awards applications open Applications are open for the 2019 ISIF Asia Grants and Awards. USD 115,000 in funding will be shared among innovative projects that foster Internet development across the Asia Pacific. Applications are open now until 30 May 2019. Grants Grants will be allocated to projects that have a clear development outcome demonstrating a concrete contribution to research and/or implementation of Internet-based solutions, operations, infrastructure, technologies and protocols within the Asia Pacific region. Grant Funding Apply Internet Operations Research Grants: For projects supporting research focused on the availability, reliability and security of the Internet, with a particular focus on operational stability and security. More information.3x USD 20,000 for a total of USD 60,000 Apply now 2019 I4D Powering Internet Infrastructure Grants: For projects supporting the research and development of software and/or hardware solutions to improve the stability and reliability of how Internet infrastructure is powered. More information.2x USD 20,000 for a total of 40,000 Apply now Before you submit your grant proposal, please read the ISIF Asia Frequently Asked Questions, Guidelines for Grant Applications, and Selection Criteria. Awards ISIF Asia Awards recognize the positive contributions and innovations to power Internet infrastructure in the Asia Pacific. For 2019, one award is available for I4D Powering Internet Infrastructure. It includes a cash prize of USD 3,500 and a travel grant to attend the 2019 Internet Governance Forum, where the awards ceremony will take place. Before submitting your Award nomination, please read the nomination requirements. ISIF Asia thanks APNIC for its generous funding contribution for 2019. Visit the ISIF Asia website for more information about key dates and how to apply. You have received this email because you are an ISIF Asia contact. Update your contact details here. Unsubscribe from subsequent ISIF Asia emails. Contact info(a)isif.asia for help.

6 years

2019 ISIF Asia Grants and Awards applications open

by Sylvia Cadena

*Apologies for cross posting* Hi everyone, The ISIF Asia call for grant proposals and award nominations opened yesterday. Your help to spread the word among your friends, colleagues and partners at Community Networks, small ISPs, NOGs, IXPs, participants you have meet at training events and conferences, etc will be really appreciated. They can help to promote the call in their communities, and they can apply themselves as well. Some of the best leads we have had in the past for good applications come from referrals from experts and practitioners like you ☺ If you can think of anyone that might have some interesting ideas on any of the two categories below, please let me know. I will be happy to follow-up with them and help them to prepare a submission on time for the selection process. Thank you all in advance for your help to promote this widely! Sylvia ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Sylvia Cadena | APNIC Foundation - Head of Programs | sylvia(a)apnic.net | http://www.apnic.foundation ISIF Asia, WSIS Champion on International Cooperation 2018 & 2019 | http://www.isif.asia | FB ISIF.asia | @ISIF_Asia | G+ ISIFAsia | 6 Cordelia Street, South Brisbane, QLD, 4101 Australia | PO Box 3646 | +10 GMT | skypeID: sylviacadena | Tel: +61 7 3858 3100 | Fax: +61 7 3858 3199 * Love trees. Print only if necessary. Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser<http://info.apnic.net/webmail/229772/124709450/a7772fda3c1b6ba07908a9fde344…>. [http://info.apnic.net/l/229772/2017-06-08/ggmx/229772/16651/ISIF_pardot_ban…] 2019 ISIF Asia Grants and Awards applications open Applications are open for the 2019 ISIF Asia Grants and Awards. USD 115,000 in funding will be shared among innovative projects that foster Internet development across the Asia Pacific. Applications are open now until 30 May 2019. Grants Grants will be allocated to projects that have a clear development outcome demonstrating a concrete contribution to research and/or implementation of Internet-based solutions, operations, infrastructure, technologies and protocols within the Asia Pacific region. Grant Funding Apply Internet Operations Research Grants: For projects supporting research focused on the availability, reliability and security of the Internet, with a particular focus on operational stability and security. More information.<http://info.apnic.net/e/229772/et-operations-research-grants-/4jygk/1247094…> 3x USD 20,000 for a total of USD 60,000 Apply now<http://info.apnic.net/e/229772/-projects-apply-grant-research/4jygm/1247094…> 2019 I4D Powering Internet Infrastructure Grants: For projects supporting the research and development of software and/or hardware solutions to improve the stability and reliability of how Internet infrastructure is powered. More information<http://info.apnic.net/e/229772/nternet-for-development-grant-/4jyhc/1247094…>. 2x USD 20,000 for a total of 40,000 Apply now<http://info.apnic.net/e/229772/projects-apply-grant-community/4jygp/1247094…> Before you submit your grant proposal, please read the ISIF Asia Frequently Asked Questions<http://info.apnic.net/e/229772/faq-/4jygr/124709450?h=cny3SjembjLt6nJBx7QXC…>, Guidelines for Grant Applications<http://info.apnic.net/e/229772/or-applicants-guidelines-tips-/4jygt/1247094…>, and Selection Criteria<http://info.apnic.net/e/229772/selection-criteria-/4jygw/124709450?h=cny3Sj…>. Awards ISIF Asia Awards recognize the positive contributions and innovations to power Internet infrastructure in the Asia Pacific. For 2019, one award is available for I4D Powering Internet Infrastructure. It includes a cash prize of USD 3,500 and a travel grant to attend the 2019 Internet Governance Forum<http://info.apnic.net/e/229772/multilingual-content-igf-2019/4jygy/12470945…>, where the awards ceremony will take place. Before submitting your Award nomination<http://info.apnic.net/e/229772/about-awards-/4jyh1/124709450?h=cny3SjembjLt…>, please read the nomination requirements. ISIF Asia thanks APNIC for its generous funding contribution for 2019. Visit the ISIF Asia website<http://info.apnic.net/e/229772/2019-03-31/4jyh3/124709450?h=cny3SjembjLt6nJ…> for more information about key dates and how to apply. You have received this email because you are an ISIF Asia contact. Update your contact details here<http://info.apnic.net/e/229772/l-229772-2017-06-09-ggq8/4jyh9/124709450?h=c…>. Unsubscribe<http://info.apnic.net/emailPreference/e/229772/291/a7772fda3c1b6ba07908a9fd…> from subsequent ISIF Asia emails. Contact info(a)isif.asia for help. [http://info.apnic.net/r/229772/1/124709450/open/1]

6 years

2019 Outcome and IGF + RightsCon Sessions

by Luca Belli

Hi all, As the deadline to submit a draft description for our IGF session is approaching<https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/igf-2019-call-for-dynamic-…> (12 April), I would like to start a conversation on what could be our 2019 outcome and, therefore, how could we better use our IGF session (and our recently approved RightsCon session!) to present and discuss such outcome. Having already elaborated quite substantial research on CNs, I think we could try to build upon the elements we already have and I would like to propose we sketch a Model Policy for Community Networks. Over the past 4 years, we have been very successful in demonstrating that CN developers are serious partners and CNs are feasible options, and we have demonstrated this with very sound research and engaging an incredibly wide range of actors (including the ITU). Besides the research demonstrating the feasibility and interest of CNs and instructions on how to build them, I think it may be time to provide also instructions for policymakers on how to facilitate CNs. What do you think? The main elements of what could be a Model Policy for Community Networks are already present in the works that we have developed collectively or separately (the Declaration on Community Connectivity; the netCommons the Open letter to EU policy makers, the Declaration of the First Latin American Summit of Community Network, etc) and, therefore, I think this effort would be mainly an effort of consolidation and discussion. And, of course, we could use the RightsCon session and IGF session to present preliminary versions and receive feedback from a wider spectrum of individuals/stakeholders, to better structure our work. If list members think this idea may be worth pursuing, I could start consolidating the docs mentioned above (if anyone wants to help, be my guests :)) and then circulate the draft to start working on it collaboratively. Looking forward to hearing comments All the best Luca [http://www.fgv.br/mailing/2018/direito_rio/assinatura/fgv_direito_rio.jpg] Luca Belli, PhD Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation [http://www.fgv.br/mailing/2018/direito_rio/assinatura/fgv_tel.jpg]+55 21 3799 5763 t @1lucabelli<https://twitter.com/1lucabelli> [http://www.fgv.br/mailing/2018/direito_rio/assinatura/fgv_direito_rio_map.j… de Botafogo, 190 13º andar Botafogo - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - CEP: 22250-900 [http://www.fgv.br/mailing/2018/direito_rio/assinatura/fgv_ass_email.jpg] luca.belli(a)fgv.br<mailto:luca.belli@fgv.br> [http://www.fgv.br/mailing/2018/direito_rio/assinatura/fgv_ass_url.jpg]inter… <https://internet-governance.fgv.br/>

6 years

Fwd: [gaia] CFP: Community-Based Telecoms Workshop in Vienna and Cape Town - June 2019

by Michael J. Oghia

FYI ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Melissa Densmore <melissa.r.densmore(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 12:04 PM Subject: [gaia] CFP: Community-Based Telecoms Workshop in Vienna and Cape Town - June 2019 To: <africhi(a)googlegroups.com>, < ictd-researchers-in-africa-network(a)googlegroups.com>, TIER < tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu>, <hci4d(a)googlegroups.com>, InterSol2019 < intersol2019(a)googlegroups.com>, gaia <GAIA(a)irtf.org> *Call for Participation* *Workshop on the Artful Integrations of Infrastructures by Community-Based Telecoms * *3 or 4 June (to be confirmed), 2019* *[summary]* The University of Cape and OVCOMM Dynamic will be co-hosting a workshop concurrent with the a workshop in Vienna at the C&T conference <https://2019.comtech.community/>. All communities and researchers working on community-based telecoms (e.g. wikipedia deployments, community networks, community radio) are invited to participate and share experiences about how we make things work. If interested, please apply here https://forms.gle/7tdBeG7G4KA6bzGSA or email mdensmore(a)cs.uct.ac.za by 20 April 2019. *[long version]* This one-day workshop will be hosted both in Vienna and online during The 9th International Conference on Communities and Technologies C&T https://2019.comtech.community/ 3 - 7 June 2019. It focuses on the experiences of communities that own and operate their own telecoms systems, such as local Wi-Fi networks and radio. We will consider what communities do to tackle the infrastructures, or taken-for-granted arrangements, that affect deploying and adopting telecoms. ICTs involve many infrastructures that arise from and support social, technical, political, legal, administrative, methodological and institutional structures and processes. Infrastructures can be physical (e.g. cables); software (e.g. code); methodological (e.g. standards); organizational (e.g. engineering professions); institutional (e.g. academic structures); and, many more. Communities often devise ways to compensate for constraints and weaknesses of infrastructures in their local telecom projects. Communities have, for instance, tackled policy infrastructures, because laws do not support their telecoms, and integrated their own social infrastructures to align with their community values. *Workshop Activities * We will facilitate conversations between members and users of community-based telecoms, researchers, practitioners and activists. These conversations aim for these different groups to: - • learn from each other's experiences in responding to infrastructures; - • recognize the ways infrastructures affect community-based telecoms; - • identify how community-based telecoms can influence future infrastructures; - • form relationships to enable ongoing sharing of experiences around infrastructure. We will use video-conferencing to connect directly to community-based telecoms. A community network in South Africa has already agreed to participate remotely, and we invite other community-based telecoms too (see 2. below). *How to Participate * We invite participation by members and users of community-based telecoms, researchers, practitioners and activists involved/interested in local Wi-Fi or GSM, hyperlocal radio or other local telecoms. To indicate your interest please submit by *April 20 2019 *responses to the questions below. You may respond using the online form https://forms.gle/7tdBeG7G4KA6bzGSA or by emailing your responses to: mdensmore(a)cs.uct.ac.za: 1. Your details (name, email, project) 2. Your participation – if you will participate in Vienna, Cape Town, or if you propose to host a workshop or participate remotely. If you propose to host a workshop or participate remotely, please use the questions in the form to guide you in providing details about how you will facilitate it. 3. Include a short file, which can be: • Media about a community-based telecom, e.g. a short text or audio description of an initiative • Art depicting interactions between existing infrastructures, community-based technologies and future infrastructures • A 2-page academic-style, position paper about infrastructures revealed by, or created for, community-based telecoms • Something else that pertains to the workshop topic and is accessible to both practitioners and academics You will be required to sign into Google in order to upload your document. Please submit up to one file (document, PDF, image, audio, video, zip) of up to 100MB in size. All submissions must be in English. We will select participants based on how their submissions contribute diverse experiences in ways that are accessible to diverse perspectives. *Organisers * *Nicola J Bidwell *International University of Management, Namibia *Melissa Densmore *University of Cape Town, South Africa *André van Zyl *OVCOMM cooperative, Ocean View, South Africa *Sarbani Banerjee Belur *Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India *Nicolás Pace *Association for Progressive Communications and Altermundi, Argentina *Nic Bidwell *is founding mentor of Groot Aub CN, Namibia, a mentor on Afchix’s gender-sensitive CN project and, in 2018, conducted multiple case-study research on CNs in six countries in the global south. In 2013 she was awarded IFIP’s inaugural award for interaction design for social and economic development for research that was a pre-cursor to Zenzeleni CN. *Melissa Densmore *is a senior lecturer in UCT’s Centre in ICT4D, South Africa. Her research explores community-based digital content creation for CNs, and has previously included studying telecoms adoption in an NGO in Uganda, and wireless infrastructure deployments in Ghana, India, and DR Congo. *Sarbani Banerjee Belur *is a senior researcher on Gram Marg’s rural broadband project, India, winner of Mozilla’s Equal Rating Innovation Challenge. Since 2015 she has facilitated connectivity to remote villages. Her research focuses on gendered use of connectivity and seeding CNs in Indian villages. *Andrè van Zyl *is a Computer/IT Teacher at Ocean View Secondary School, and a Director of the OVCOMM cooperative that administers a community network in Ocean View, a town-ship in Cape Town, South Africa. *Nicolás Pace *is the Movement Building Coordinator for the Association for Progressive Communication’s Local Access Networks initiative. He supports CNs around the world, is part of AlterMundi, that develops models and technologies for CNs, and REDES AC, that supports CNs in Indigenous Mexico. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ICTDEVers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ictdevers+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ictdevers(a)googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/ictdevers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. _______________________________________________ gaia mailing list gaia(a)irtf.org https://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/gaia

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