[DC3] Community networks and local access monthly newsletter

(apologies for cross-posting) Hi all, If you are interested in keeping up to date with news and information around community networks and local access, we invite you to subscribe to the local access newsletter that the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) will launch in December 2017. The purpose of this newsletter is to provide monthly updates on news and reports, calls for grants, fellowships and awards, and information on events around community networks and local access. There are a great many news items and reports about innovations in low-cost communication technologies, locally owned and managed communication infrastructure systems, case studies on community networks in the global South, updates on regulatory changes (at the global, national and sub-national levels), announcements of funding opportunities, calls for events, and so on, that are shared in different mailing lists, Twitter feeds and other channels. Our aim is to crowdsource this information and bring it all together in one place on a monthly basis, so that we can share it with everyone who wants to stay up to date on this increasingly critical topic. We believe that a better informed community of practitioners could make a significant contribution to the implementation and operation of more resilient locally owned telecommunications infrastructure. If you are interested in receiving the newsletter, please click here: https://crm.apc.org/content/local-access-subscription If you have information on the topic that you would like us to include in the newsletter, please share it with us at localaccess.newsletter(a)apc.org best, carlos -- Carlos Rey-Moreno, PhD “Community access networks: how to connect the next billion to the internet” Project Coordinator Association for Progressive Communications Cel: +27 (0) 76 986 3633 Skype: carlos.reymoreno Twitter: Creym