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Netcommons Survey! Help them with data on CNs

by Jane Coffin

Hi All – See this survey from some great researchers. They are keen to have responses. The survey runs through the end of September – 30 September. Best, Jane Dear Sir/Madam We are a team of researchers based at the University of Westminster in London and working for the netCommons Project (EU Horizon 2020 project netCommons: Network Infrastructure as Commons, http://netcommons.eu). As part of the project, we are conducting an online survey to examine users’ concerns about Internet use and at the same time explore the potential of alternative Internet provision. Such concerns will provide useful input to policy makers and regulators who hold significant responsibilities over the telecommunications and Internet landscape, and consequently need to take informed steps towards the evolution of this landscape. We are looking in particular for respondents (Internet users) who are academic/research staff, students, IT product/services professionals or administrative/clerical staff at Universities or research institutes. We would be grateful if you could take some time (about 20 minutes) to complete the survey. The survey link is: https://d52netcommons.limequery.com/357528?lang=en The survey will be available online until 30 September 2017. Many thanks for your collaboration. Kind regards, Prof Christian Fuchs Dr Maria Michalis, Reader Dr Dimitris Boucas, Research Fellow University of Westminster, UK -------END OF EMAIL---- The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW. This message and its attachments are private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it and its attachments from your system. The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW. This message and its attachments are private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it and its attachments from your system. Internet Society | www.internetsociety.org Skype: janercoffin Mobile/WhatsApp: +1.202.247.8429 From: <dc3-bounces(a)listas.altermundi.net> on behalf of "Michael J. Oghia" <mike.oghia(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity <dc3(a)listas.altermundi.net> Date: Thursday, September 21, 2017 at 12:09 PM To: Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity <dc3(a)listas.altermundi.net> Subject: [DC3] Fwd: [IAMCR] Journal of Alternative and Community Media - CfP Sustaining Community Media This might be relevant to you or your networks Best, -Michael ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Salvatore Scifo <sscifo(a)bournemouth.ac.uk> Date: Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 12:12 PM Subject: [IAMCR] [SPAM] Journal of Alternative and Community Media - CfP Sustaining Community Media To: "announcements(a)iamcr.org" <announcements(a)iamcr.org> Dear Colleagues, we will be editing a special issue of the Journal of Alternative and Community Media (JoACM), with Dr Andrew O' Baoill of the National University of Ireland at Galway. Our topic is Sustaining Community Media: Challenges and Strategies. We are seeking short abstracts (100-150 words) by 15th November, with full texts of accepted articles due next March. Further below, and in the attached pdf, you can find the full call for papers. We welcome your proposals and informal inquiries. Please circulate to others you think might be interested. Best Regards, Salvatore ----------------------------------- Journal of Alternative and Community Media SPECIAL ISSUE - CALL FOR PAPERS Guest Editors: Andrew Ó Baoill, National University of Ireland, Ireland (andrew.obaoill(a)nuigalway.ie) Salvatore Scifo, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom (sscifo(a)bournemouth.ac.uk) Sustaining Community Media: Challenges and Strategies Maintaining community media organisations requires ongoing attention to a number of factors. Radio and TV stations, as well as national and international community media organisations must consider funding, governance structures, changing political and economic conditions, while building, consolidating and extending relationships with their listening communities. The concept of sustainability has been widely used in the context of communication for development paradigms, as a lens for assessing the health and success of that sector. This special issue will provide an opportunity to reflect on questions of resilience and endurance as they arise in alternative, radical, oppositional, and community-grounded media, and to explore the various interdependent factors that can impact the ongoing stability and health of community media projects. Concurrently, the association of the term with questions of ecology prompts a reflective and ethical concern that extends beyond the immediate or parochial, and we expect papers that will, in a holistic fashion, explore the role and operation of the sector in the context of broader socio-political concerns. Community media have been the focus of an increasing amount of scholarly attention as they have grown in size, from social movement theorists, to political economists, to those focused on governance and organisational communication. As Atton and Hamilton (2008: 26) note in their analysis of the political economy of alternative journalism, the “general political-economic dilemma for any critical project is that it needs resources with which to work, but those crucial resources are present only in the very society that it seeks to change or dissolve.” This special issue will build on existing knowledge, together with exploration of contemporary case studies, to explore the numerous challenges faced by community media activists and organisations in nurturing long-term projects, and identify strategies and best practices for building a sustainable sector. Questions of sustainability have an immediate practical relevance to those working in the field of community communication - many projects that emerge from the context of short-term tactical media projects struggle with questions of funding and volunteer engagement as the focus of their horizon changes. Also, the workforce and paperwork required by some funding schemes might be a barrier to the search of medium and long-term support. Beyond this, we encourage submissions that tackle the ethical tensions that arise, for instance, for those looking to create media that is at once independent, critical, and financially stable. To what extent is it possible to have a media project that is both oppositional and institutionalised? What compromises or additional work is necessary? How to balance the possible conflict between aims of the stations and those of funding bodies? In challenging contributors to focus on the interplay of practical considerations of funding and resources, together with questions of mission, key commitments, and values, we expect to foster a constructive debate that has the potential to draw on a range of historical examples, as well as explore some distinctive issues arising in the contemporary context. In what ways do the lower barriers to entry for digital publishing support and challenge the development of enduring oppositional projects? With neoliberalism prompting the expansion of commercial logic into ever more areas of human activity, what are the pressures faced by projects grounded in an opposition to commodification and capitalism more broadly? Areas of focus might include the following, with projects that draw together a number of tensions in creative and challenging ways particularly welcome: • Capital and recurrent funding; building revenue streams • Regulatory challenges and solutions • Governance and organisation • Cooperation and health of the sector • Localism and defining community • Maintaining and refreshing relationships with communities • Pragmatism versus idealism Abstracts due: 15 November 2017 Notification of acceptance: 1 December 2017 Publication: mid-to-late 2018 Submission Guidelines: Please send an electronic copy of your 100-150 word abstract via e-mail text to both Guest Editors, Andrew Ó Baoill (andrew.obaoill(a)nuigalway.ie) and Salvatore Scifo (sscifo(a)bournemouth.ac.uk), by Wednesday, 15 November 2017. Authors will be informed about the acceptance (or not) of their proposal by Friday 1 December 2017 and will be expected to submit their full paper according to JOACM guidelines (see https://joacm.org/index.php/JOACM/pages/view/authors) by 15 March 2018. The issue is expected to be released in mid-to-late 2018. We encourage you to circulate this email among your networks. www.joacm.org facebook.com/joacm.org twitter.com/JournalofACM BU is a Disability Confident Employer and has signed up to the Mindful Employer charter. Information about the accessibility of University buildings can be found on the BU DisabledGo webpages. This email is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential information. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this email, which must not be copied, distributed or disclosed to any other person. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Bournemouth University or its subsidiary companies. Nor can any contract be formed on behalf of the University or its subsidiary companies via email. -- International Association for Media and Communication Research | http://iamcr.org Join IAMCR | http://iamcr.org/join IAMCR on Facebook | http://facebook.com/iamcr.org @IAMCRtweets on Twitter | http://twitter.com/IAMCRtweets Announcements mailing list information and policies: http://iamcr.org/mailman/listinfo/announcements_iamcr.org

7 years, 11 months

Fwd: [IAMCR] Journal of Alternative and Community Media - CfP Sustaining Community Media

by Michael J. Oghia

This might be relevant to you or your networks Best, -Michael ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Salvatore Scifo <sscifo(a)bournemouth.ac.uk> Date: Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 12:12 PM Subject: [IAMCR] [SPAM] Journal of Alternative and Community Media - CfP Sustaining Community Media To: "announcements(a)iamcr.org" <announcements(a)iamcr.org> Dear Colleagues, we will be editing a special issue of the Journal of Alternative and Community Media (JoACM), with Dr Andrew O' Baoill of the National University of Ireland at Galway. Our topic is Sustaining Community Media: Challenges and Strategies. We are seeking short abstracts (100-150 words) by 15th November, with full texts of accepted articles due next March. Further below, and in the attached pdf, you can find the full call for papers. We welcome your proposals and informal inquiries. Please circulate to others you think might be interested. Best Regards, Salvatore ----------------------------------- Journal of Alternative and Community Media SPECIAL ISSUE - CALL FOR PAPERS Guest Editors: Andrew Ó Baoill, National University of Ireland, Ireland ( andrew.obaoill(a)nuigalway.ie) Salvatore Scifo, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom ( sscifo(a)bournemouth.ac.uk) Sustaining Community Media: Challenges and Strategies Maintaining community media organisations requires ongoing attention to a number of factors. Radio and TV stations, as well as national and international community media organisations must consider funding, governance structures, changing political and economic conditions, while building, consolidating and extending relationships with their listening communities. The concept of sustainability has been widely used in the context of communication for development paradigms, as a lens for assessing the health and success of that sector. This special issue will provide an opportunity to reflect on questions of resilience and endurance as they arise in alternative, radical, oppositional, and community-grounded media, and to explore the various interdependent factors that can impact the ongoing stability and health of community media projects. Concurrently, the association of the term with questions of ecology prompts a reflective and ethical concern that extends beyond the immediate or parochial, and we expect papers that will, in a holistic fashion, explore the role and operation of the sector in the context of broader socio-political concerns. Community media have been the focus of an increasing amount of scholarly attention as they have grown in size, from social movement theorists, to political economists, to those focused on governance and organisational communication. As Atton and Hamilton (2008: 26) note in their analysis of the political economy of alternative journalism, the “general political-economic dilemma for any critical project is that it needs resources with which to work, but those crucial resources are present only in the very society that it seeks to change or dissolve.” This special issue will build on existing knowledge, together with exploration of contemporary case studies, to explore the numerous challenges faced by community media activists and organisations in nurturing long-term projects, and identify strategies and best practices for building a sustainable sector. Questions of sustainability have an immediate practical relevance to those working in the field of community communication - many projects that emerge from the context of short-term tactical media projects struggle with questions of funding and volunteer engagement as the focus of their horizon changes. Also, the workforce and paperwork required by some funding schemes might be a barrier to the search of medium and long-term support. Beyond this, we encourage submissions that tackle the ethical tensions that arise, for instance, for those looking to create media that is at once independent, critical, and financially stable. To what extent is it possible to have a media project that is both oppositional and institutionalised? What compromises or additional work is necessary? How to balance the possible conflict between aims of the stations and those of funding bodies? In challenging contributors to focus on the interplay of practical considerations of funding and resources, together with questions of mission, key commitments, and values, we expect to foster a constructive debate that has the potential to draw on a range of historical examples, as well as explore some distinctive issues arising in the contemporary context. In what ways do the lower barriers to entry for digital publishing support and challenge the development of enduring oppositional projects? With neoliberalism prompting the expansion of commercial logic into ever more areas of human activity, what are the pressures faced by projects grounded in an opposition to commodification and capitalism more broadly? Areas of focus might include the following, with projects that draw together a number of tensions in creative and challenging ways particularly welcome: • Capital and recurrent funding; building revenue streams • Regulatory challenges and solutions • Governance and organisation • Cooperation and health of the sector • Localism and defining community • Maintaining and refreshing relationships with communities • Pragmatism versus idealism Abstracts due: 15 November 2017 Notification of acceptance: 1 December 2017 Publication: mid-to-late 2018 Submission Guidelines: Please send an electronic copy of your 100-150 word abstract via e-mail text to both Guest Editors, Andrew Ó Baoill (andrew.obaoill(a)nuigalway.ie) and Salvatore Scifo (sscifo(a)bournemouth.ac.uk), by Wednesday, 15 November 2017. Authors will be informed about the acceptance (or not) of their proposal by Friday 1 December 2017 and will be expected to submit their full paper according to JOACM guidelines (see https://joacm.org/index.php/JOACM/pages/view/authors) by 15 March 2018. The issue is expected to be released in mid-to-late 2018. We encourage you to circulate this email among your networks. www.joacm.org facebook.com/joacm.org twitter.com/JournalofACM BU is a Disability Confident Employer and has signed up to the Mindful Employer charter. Information about the accessibility of University buildings can be found on the BU DisabledGo webpages. This email is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential information. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this email, which must not be copied, distributed or disclosed to any other person. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Bournemouth University or its subsidiary companies. Nor can any contract be formed on behalf of the University or its subsidiary companies via email. -- International Association for Media and Communication Research | http://iamcr.org Join IAMCR | http://iamcr.org/join IAMCR on Facebook | http://facebook.com/iamcr.org @IAMCRtweets on Twitter | http://twitter.com/IAMCRtweets Announcements mailing list information and policies: http://iamcr.org/mailman/listinfo/announcements_iamcr.org

7 years, 11 months

Interesting research

by Michael J. Oghia

Hi everyone, Attached is a peer reviewed study that was shared with me about what the authors describe as "Community-led broadband initiatives," – i.e., community networks. It specifically focuses on the resilience of such networks, and unsurprisingly, their results indicated that the community network model strengthens local rural identity. Best, -Michael

7 years, 12 months

First Mile

by Jane Coffin

Hi All – This group may be of interest (re indigenous community connectivity). http://www.1st-mile.org/ Best, Jane Internet Society | www.internetsociety.org Skype: janercoffin Mobile/WhatsApp: +1.202.247.8429

8 years

State of Open Source Routers Video

by Glenn McKnight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTQqmnVRToI Glenn McKnight mcknight.glenn(a)gmail.com skype gmcknight twitter gmcknight 289-830 6259 .

8 years

Update on website resource page

by Michael Oghia

Hi Maureen, Luca, all: Do you have any updates about the resources page on the DC3 website? I have been periodically adding to it, but I am not sure if you have already ported them to the new site. Here they are again: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Lp5DTB2Bso4Uz7yn3f7yza90Z9iqm6sUCONyLCc… Best, -Michael

8 years, 1 month

APC is looking for a Gender and Social Impact Facilitator for Local Access Networks

by Carlos Rey-Moreno

Hi all, (apologies for cross-posting) APC is looking for a Gender and Social Impact Facilitator for Local Access Networks Project https://www.apc.org/en/node/34224/ Please help us spread the word. thanks, carlos

8 years, 1 month

Hello DC3! Seeking Advice Re: Open Source Monitoring/Dashboards for Community Networks

by Alexis Cullen

Hello DC3! Hello, I'm new to the group. My name is Alexis Cullen, and I'm from the USA originally, but am now living in Vanuatu & have been for the past 4 years (I was a Peace Corps Volunteer here in a remote village and my husband and I decided to try and stay in Vanuatu rather than return to the USA after our service, as we love it here) I've been working for the past three years with Maewo Island and together we've built a community network (after advocating for connectivity through traditional routes failed). Some of our information is on this website mtc.invanuatu.com and facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/ MaewoWifi/, but we are in dire need of updating. I'm writing because I was hoping to find out what people were using for dashboards to monitor their networks?? I have a friend who codes, and he created a custom solution for us. He's planning to share it open source on Github. It pulls data from the network through a mikrotik router & raspberry pi combo. Happy to send our documentation to anyone who is curious. He started helping because we use Kacific Broadband Satellite for our backhaul and OpenDNS wouldn't work with their configurations . . .we were trying to get access to our own data and having a really hard time. Thus the custom script. Now we have data coming back to us, but no dashboard to interpret the raw data. My friend was going to code this for us, but he's flat out at the moment, busy with a lot of other projects. I suppose my question is whether or not we reinvented the wheel with our custom code, and what others are using to monitor their networks. Is anyone developing any solutions that they would be willing to share with us? We'd be so grateful! Thank you! Alexis

8 years, 1 month

Papers for GHTC

by Glenn McKnight

Hi Folks Dr. Alan Mickelson provided me these two papers for the Global Humanitarian Technology Conference in October. Glenn McKnight mcknight.glenn(a)gmail.com skype gmcknight twitter gmcknight 289-830 6259 .

8 years, 1 month

Fwd: [bestbits] Request of information: public wifi and personal data protection

by Michael Oghia

FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <rafaelzanatta(a)usp.br> Date: Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 12:11 AM Subject: [bestbits] Request of information: public wifi and personal data protection To: "bestbits(a)lists.bestbits.net&gt &lt" <bestbits(a)lists.bestbits.net> Dear members of BestBits list, I'm not sure if you know about this, but the new mayor of São Paulo (João Dória) wants to change the rules of the public policy that sustains open and free Wi-Fi access in squares and public spaces. His plan is to monetize over the metadata and personal data of those citizens that access the "open wifi". The plan has been heavily critized by digital rights activists (see here <https://jota.info/colunas/agenda-da-privacidade-e-da-protecao-de-dados/expa…> and here) <http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/ronaldolemos/2017/07/1903596-sao-paulo…>. Now the City Hall has opened a public consultation about the rules of the partnership with the private sector. We need urgently some good examples of other cities that implemented partnerships with the private sector and respected privacy and personal data protection. If you have some materials (official documents or papers that explains the personal data protection policies in such open wi-fi initiatives), can you please send me? Thanks for your attention. Rafael Zanatta *Instituto Brasileiro de Defesa do Consumidor* *Coalizão Direitos na Rede*

8 years, 1 month

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