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From: Mallory Knodel <mallory(a)mayfirst.org>
Date: Tue, Aug 3, 2021, 6:34 PM
Subject: [gaia] Fwd: [Feministinternet] GenderIT call for proposals - CNs
as infrastructures of resistance
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*From:* Mariana Fossatti <mariana(a)apcwomen.org>
*Date:* 3 August 2021 at 12:12:03 GMT-4
*To:* feministinternet(a)lists.apcwomen.org
*Subject:* *[Feministinternet] GenderIT call for proposals - CNs as
infrastructures of resistance*
*Reply-To:* feministinternet(a)lists.apcwomen.org
Dear friends,
GenderIT is looking for content proposals for the next Community Networks
edition in partnership with LocNet project. See the call bellow.
Warmly,
Mariana
Infrastructures of Resistance: Community Networks Hacking Global Crisis
When certain government or market actions and services were unable to meet
the pressing needs of a pandemic and lock downs that, as a result, spiraled
out of control, community networks* (CNs) demonstrated that they were more
than techno solutions to communication. Every location of these
community-rooted autonomous sites of communication and knowledge became
its own power house of resistance against the risks and inequalities that
the pandemic has exacerbated.
In these times where most governments scrambled and stumbled to take
life-saving, effective and empathetic steps towards providing reliable and
immediate health and education services while in complete shut down,
communities stepped in to care for themselves and their neighbors. The
spectrum of CNs activities covered a wide range of life saving and
dignifying actions and services through providing communication, health
information, facilitating telemedicine applications, setting up education
services, expanding internet access and reach, to preventing and
tending to online
and offline gender based violence.
CNs proved that an infrastructure is only as robust as its more caring of
its communal nodes.
In this second year of living in times of unequal global health crisis, we
invite you to submit your works in this special issue of GenderIT.org:*
Infrastructures of Resistance: Community Networks Hacking Global Crisis*
and to share with us how intersectional approaches in CNs have been
transforming these realities by embodying infrastructures of resistance and
bringing hope to their communities.
Share with us your stories of hope, beauty, education, as well as your
strategies that supported you to overcome local challenges and keeping
humanity connected.
*About **submissions*
GenderIT.org carry blogs, podcasts, videos, essays, interviews and
webcomics on internet policy and cultures from a feminist and
intersectional perspective, privileging voices and expressions from the
Global South.
Those who are interested can send abstracts and/or ideas for:
- Writings (2000 – 2500 words)
- Videos (maximum of 8 – 10 mins)
- Photo essays (maximum of 3 photos)
- Comics or illustrations (maximum of 3 – 4 page/panel)
- Audio recordings/podcasts (maximum of 10 - 15 mins)
Please see some tips and style for writings here:
*http://writers.wiki.apc.org/index.php/How_to_write_for_GenderIT.org*
<http://writers.wiki.apc.org/index.php/How_to_write_for_GenderIT.org>
You can work on your own, collaborate with others or we can matchmake you
(for example a writer and an illustrator). All work selected will be
compensated by The Association for Progressive Communication (APC).
Send your ideas to: *genderit(a)apcwomen.org <genderit(a)apcwomen.org>* with
subject “CN Infrastructures of Resistance edition”
We will be glad to read your ideas and give you feedback and guidelines for
the writing process. You can choose to publish under your name or a
pseudonym. We can't ensure that all proposals will be published, because
that depends on our limited budget.
The deadline for submitting your ideas is *August 20*.
**About Community Networks (CN)*
We are aware that definitions of community networks can vary a lot
depending on the context in which they are implemented and
the socio-technical aspects they mobilize. Here we understand community
networks as the community, the land and the digital technologies that are
governed by communities and that enable the work of communities who are
designing, articulating, building, maintaining and sustaining their
communication and knowledge infrastructures. i.e. community networks
involves hybrid models of communication networks such as digital
technology, infrastructures that facilitate a community's governance and
access to the internet and/or community radios that enable local knowledge,
archival work, solidarity building, land defense, economic sovereignty, and
other enablers of human rights.
______________________________________________
"Michael J. Oghia" <mike.oghia(a)gmail.com> writes:
> Happy to share. It's linked to a Google Doc, but I've attached the
> final PDF as well.
I am sorry that you had to risk yourself in order for me to avoid the
risk to myself. I wish you had not done that onto yourself. The policy
is more important to me than the paper, as I described in my second
paragraph on my previous email. What I wished for is that the publisher
made a pdf available for everyone without the need to risk privacy,
freedom and security to all. Thank you for your good intentions,
though.
> Regarding your last paragraph, that's really a question for A4AI and
> not myself. But I have written extensively about it, including in the
> 2017 DC3 report and a sustainability magazine article, and I'm working
> on another piece that will hopefully come out this summer looking at
> those same questions.
By skimming the document, I can note that it is much more broad than
just proposing electrical grid coverage. I will study it later in more
detail.
Hi everyone,
I want to bring your attention to a new report launched by the Alliance for
Affordable Internet (A4AI). It focuses on sustainable access – a topic I
began writing about in 2017 thanks to Luca inviting me to contribute to the
DC3 report :-) Needless to say, it's a topic dear to my heart.
https://a4ai.org/research/sustainable-access-report/
The report analyses how governments embed climate issues into their
broadband policies, looks at the consequences of inaction, and suggests
policy recommendations towards a greener internet.
Best,
-Michael
Dear colleagues,
In case you are interested, please find below an invite to the “Second EU-Brazil Conference on Digital Economy and Innovation: Connectivity and New Digital Infrastructures<https://direitorio.fgv.br/eventos/second-eu-brazil-conference-on-digital-ec…>”, organized by the Center for Technology and Society at FGV, in partnership with EU institutions.
The event is organised under the auspices of the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the EU, is an outcome of the First EU-Brazil Conference on Digital Economy and Innovation<https://cyberbrics.info/first-eu-brazil-conference-on-digital-economy-and-i…>, held in March 2021, and celebrates the inauguration of the new submarine optic cable EllaLink, connecting directly Brazil to Portugal. It will take place this Friday 18 June 2021, from 10 to 12 BRT (GMT-3) / 15 to 17 CET.
You can register here https://evento.fgv.br/eu_brazil_conference/
Further information below and here https://direitorio.fgv.br/eventos/second-eu-brazil-conference-on-digital-ec…
Feel free to share this message through your networks.
Kind regards
Luca
Second EU-Brazil Conference on Digital Economy and Innovation: Connectivity and New Digital Infrastructures
Event organised under the auspices of the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the EU.
At the time of the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the EU, this online event aims at identifying areas for stakeholder cooperation between the EU and Brazil regarding connectivity, digital trade, and research and development of emerging technologies. Participants will explore key issues such as newly inaugurated EllaLink optical submarine cable, the challenges and opportunities of Internet access, 5G technologies, the Internet of Things and its applications, and new connectivity models. The agenda of this webinar has been crafted based on the outcomes of the First EU-Brazil Conference on Digital Economy and Innovation<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcyberbric…>, held in March 2021, aimed at tackling digital cooperation between EU and Brazil, and promoting further synergy regarding digital trade, research and digital policy frameworks.
EU- Brazil cooperation on Connectivity and New Digital Infrastructures:
* Goret Pereira Paulo - Directress, FGV Office of Research and Innovation
* Carlos Oliveira - Minister Counselor for Digital Market, Delegation of the European Union to Brazil
* Filipe Batista - Permanent Representation of Portugal to the EU
* Luigi Gambardella - President EUBrasil
* Luca Belli - Professor FGV Law School, Coordinator of the Center for Technology and Society at FGV
Connecting Latin America and Europe - Ellalink and Beyond:
* Philppe Dumont - CEO, Ellalink
* Nathalia Foditsch - Senior Specialist, Alliance for Affordable Internet
* Eduardo Grizendi - Director, Rede Nacional de Pesquisa
* Moacyr Martucci - Professor, São Paulo University, Polytechnic School
EU-Brazil - Connecting People and Things:
* Stefano Lorenzi - Executive Chairman, Ufinet
* Bernard Barani - Deputy Head of Unit at DG CONNECT
* Jacqueline Lopes - Directress of Institutional Relations LATAM South, Ericsson
* Beatriz Sannuti - Head of the Digital Access Programme, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
* Adriana Labardini - Coordinator of the Brazil Community Network Project, APC + Anatel + UK Consulate
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Good morning
In case you are interested this event starts in 30 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XxYPteYo40&feature=youtu.be
Kind regards
Luca
Dear colleagues,
In case you are interested, please find below an invite to the “Second EU-Brazil Conference on Digital Economy and Innovation: Connectivity and New Digital Infrastructures<https://direitorio.fgv.br/eventos/second-eu-brazil-conference-on-digital-ec…>”, organized by the Center for Technology and Society at FGV, in partnership with EU institutions.
The event is organised under the auspices of the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the EU, is an outcome of the First EU-Brazil Conference on Digital Economy and Innovation<https://cyberbrics.info/first-eu-brazil-conference-on-digital-economy-and-i…>, held in March 2021 and celebrates the inauguration of the new submarine optic cable EllaLink, connecting directly Brazil to Portugal. It will take place this Friday 18 June 2021, from 10 to 12 BRT (GMT-3) / 15 to 17 CET.
You can register here https://evento.fgv.br/eu_brazil_conference/
Further information below and here https://direitorio.fgv.br/eventos/second-eu-brazil-conference-on-digital-ec…
Feel free to share this message through your networks.
Kind regards
Luca
Second EU-Brazil Conference on Digital Economy and Innovation: Connectivity and New Digital Infrastructures
Event organised under the auspices of the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the EU.
At the time of the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the EU, this online event aims at identifying areas for stakeholder cooperation between the EU and Brazil regarding connectivity, digital trade, and research and development of emerging technologies. Participants will explore key issues such as newly inaugurated EllaLink optical submarine cable, the challenges and opportunities of Internet access, 5G technologies, the Internet of Things and its applications, and new connectivity models. The agenda of this webinar has been crafted based on the outcomes of the First EU-Brazil Conference on Digital Economy and Innovation<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcyberbric…>, held in March 2021, aimed at tackling digital cooperation between EU and Brazil, and promoting further synergy regarding digital trade, research and digital policy frameworks.
EU- Brazil cooperation on Connectivity and New Digital Infrastructures:
* Goret Pereira Paulo - Directress, FGV Office of Research and Innovation
* Carlos Oliveira - Minister Counselor for Digital Market, Delegation of the European Union to Brazil
* Filipe Batista - Permanent Representation of Portugal to the EU
* Luigi Gambardella - President EUBrasil
* Luca Belli - Professor FGV Law School, Coordinator of the Center for Technology and Society at FGV
Connecting Latin America and Europe - Ellalink and Beyond:
* Philppe Dumont - CEO, Ellalink
* Nathalia Foditsch - Senior Specialist, Alliance for Affordable Internet
* Eduardo Grizendi - Director, Rede Nacional de Pesquisa
* Moacyr Martucci - Professor, São Paulo University, Polytechnic School
EU-Brazil - Connecting People and Things:
* Stefano Lorenzi - Executive Chairman, Ufinet
* Bernard Barani - Deputy Head of Unit at DG CONNECT
* Jacqueline Lopes - Directress of Institutional Relations LATAM South, Ericsson
* Beatriz Sannuti - Head of the Digital Access Programme, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
* Adriana Labardini - Coordinator of the Brazil Community Network Project, APC + Anatel + UK Consulate
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Luca Belli, PhD
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Coordinator | Center for Technology & Society
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There was an ask ( please see very interesting transcript from precious
email on WSIS 2021 Forum session 3 bridging digital divide) to connect with
whatever available tech with speed rather than wait for the best or newest
solution, for covid 19 has made economies dependent on ICTs.
In the west with land line phones there is 3 way calling ...wonder if there
is technology fix to take this to more callers say 10 callers connecting.
The bandwidth to enable zoom education is not available to all, but land
line phones are more common in rural areas. Also dial up internet is still
an important option and content should be made avaliable for these
technologies. I grew up through dial up and know it can be used effectively
for some purposes ...
Amali De Silva - Mitchell
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Amali De Silva-Mitchell MSc.CPA,CMA