Dear all,

Great to see that so many good ideas are already emerging from the list!

Leandro, many thanks for the very useful info. This is exactly the kind of resources we need! The GAIA workshop looks interesting: do you know if the sessions will be live-streamed? Perhaps, video recordings will be published?

As regards next steps, I would like to send a request to establish the DC3 by the end of the week, if possible. So far, these are the elements (required by the IGF Secretariatat) at my disposal:

MEMBERS:

Technical Community

Bob Frankston, IEEE Consumer Electronics Society

Frédéric Donck, ISOC

Civil Society

Nicolás Echániz, Altermundi 

Ritu  Srivastava, Digital Empowerment Foundation 

Kevin Bankston, New America Foundation

Raoul Plommer, Electronic Frontier Finland

Leandro Navarro, UPC, community-lab.net and guifi.net

Academia

Janara Sousa, Universidade de Brasília

Catherine Middleton, Ryerson University

Diego Vicentin, UNICAMP

Nathalia Foditsch, American University

Luca Belli, Center for Technology & Society, Fundação Getulio Vargas

Jamila Venturini, Center for Technology & Society, Fundação Getulio Vargas

Intergovernmental Organisations

Lee Hibbard, Council of Europe

Unkown affiliation

John Dada

Otavio Vinhas

Feel free to invite new people or to add your name and affiliation to the pad, if you want to be included as DC3 member. https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/dc_on_connected_communities

CO-CORDINATORS:

Nico and myself. 

Usually IGF Dynamic Coalitions have two or three coordinators: it would be very nice to have also a woman amongst the coordinators, in order to have more gender balance. Should any ladies be interested in being a co-coordinator, be my guest J

MAILING LIST 

Up and running!

ACTION PLAN

Below the current draft (feel free to modify it using the pad)

The Dynamic Coalition on Connected Communities (DC3) emerged as an outcome of the IGF workshop 223 "Community Networks: a Revolutionary Paradigm", held in João Pessoa, during the 10th IGF.

The DC3 has been created in order to foster multistakeholder analysis of the various types and models of community networks, with the aim of identifying and promoting best practices and sustainable approaches to Internet connectivity in the context of communities.

The DC3 participants will foster joint efforts aimed at:

• ·         Making CN visible to policy makers so they can be properly considered as an actor in the telecomunications ecosystem.
• ·         Identifying good open-access readings that may be useful to communicate to non-techies what CN are and how they work;
• ·         Mapping existing CN and try to foster communication amongst them, promoting strategies to achieve common goals;
• ·         Identifying models of CN (e.g. rural CN, urban CN, etc.) and best practices that can make them particularly efficient and resilient both from a technical and organizational perspective;
• ·         Identifying best practices and worst practices as regards national and international policies that facilitate or hinder the deployment of community networks.
• ·         Consolidating and publishing of this ideas into some ‘Community Network Guidelines/Best practices’ to be presented at the next IGF and divulgated on the future DC3 website.

Thanks to everyone for the interest and very good ideas shared so far. Do not hesitate to share more!

All the best

Luca