27 May
2018
27 May
'18
9:42 a.m.
Congrats Carlos! Great job (particularly re: Zenezeleni)!
And very good to hear WS deadline has been extended
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De: dc3-bounces(a)listas.altermundi.net [dc3-bounces(a)listas.altermundi.net] em nome de Jane
Coffin [coffin(a)isoc.org]
Enviado: sexta-feira, 25 de maio de 2018 10:55
Para: Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity
Assunto: Re: [DC3] Fwd: [apc.members] Community Networks and Local Access Monthly
Newsletter - May 2018
Awesome Newsletter. Thanks to APC for the great resource
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Date: Friday, May 25, 2018 at 8:38 AM
To: Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity <dc3(a)listas.altermundi.net>
Subject: Re: [DC3] Fwd: [apc.members] Community Networks and Local Access Monthly
Newsletter - May 2018
Correction on newsletter
The IGF Paris call for workshops has been extended to June 6
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On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 4:16 AM, Carlos Rey-Moreno
<carlos.reymoreno@gmail.com<mailto:carlos.reymoreno@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi all, sharing the the May's edition of the CN newsletter that we are curating from
APC. We have more than 250 subscribers now. If you have stories we would like us to
include in the next numbers, please send them along!
One of the highlights (for me personally :-D) in the newsletter is the article on
"South Africa became the first country in the region to support community
networks<https://www.apc.org/en/node/34705/>" a results of years of advocacy
from Zenzeleni Networks.
best,
carlos
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COMMUNITY NETWORKS AND LOCAL ACCESS
Monthly newsletter
May 2018
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Image by Zenzeleni Networks.
Welcome to the sixth monthly round-up of developments impacting your local access
networks.
1. Get involved
* Northern Public Affairs, in collaboration with the Internet Society, is pleased to
release a call for contributions to the Fall 2018 special issue of NPA Magazine focusing
on emerging developments in community networks among Indigenous peoples in North America.
Read
more<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6872…435980>.
* APC internship opportunity for an African community networks project. Read
more<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6873…435980>.
* The Internet Society is inviting applications for individuals interested in the
Introduction to Network Operations Course. The course will be run monthly in English and
French with the registration beginning on the third Monday of every month and closing on
the last Wednesday of every month. The current application closes on 30 May 2018.
Applicants applying in this window will take the course from 4 June to 9 July. Read
more<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6874…435980>.
* Digital Citizen Summit session proposals are being accepted until 15 June 2018. One
of the relevant themes of this summit in relation to community networks is “access and
inclusion”. Read
more<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6875…435980>.
* All stakeholders are invited to submit proposals to hold workshops at the 13th
Annual Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) to take place in November/December
2018. An announcement is expected imminently on the exact dates and venue of the meeting.
The deadline for workshop submissions is 27 May 2018, 23:59 UTC. Read
more<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6876…435980>.
2. Call for grants
* The Beyond the Net Medium and Large Grants Programme is still open for applications.
Read
more<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6877…435980>.
3. Events and conferences
3.1 Upcoming events
* Whose Knowledge?: Decolonizing the Internet conference, 17 and 18 June in Cape Town,
South Africa. Read
more<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6878…435980>.
* Sarantaporo conference: Building the community in community networks. Read
more<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6879…435980>.
* Global ICT Capacity Building Symposium, 18-20 June in Santo Domingo. One major theme
will be “capacity building needs and policy interventions particularly on community-based
ICT development”. The programme can be found
here<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6880…435980>.
Read
more<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6881…435980>.
3.2 Resources from past events
* Video of the panel at RightsCon: “Addressing the digital divide in Indigenous
Communities in North America”. Watch
here<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6882…435980>.
* Summary from Steve Song about the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance Global Summit 2018 in
London, with observations around Africa. Read
more<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6883…435980>.
Presentations and other resources from past DSA events can be found
here<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6884…435980>.
* Shernon Osepa (ISOC) speaks about community networks in a session about internet
infrastructure resilience at the 14th Caribbean Internet Governance Forum in Suriname.
Watch
here<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6885…435980>.
* Some of the presentations that took place during the “Mesh is in the Air” (formerly
Battle Mesh) meeting in Berlin are linked to the different elements of the agenda. Read
more<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6886…435980>.
The videos of the presentations are also available. Watch
here<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6887…435980>.
4. Community networks in news and blogs
* South Africa becomes the first country in the region to support community networks.
Read
more<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6888…435980>.
Explicit support for @ZenzeleniNet and #communitynetworks in the Budget Vote from @DtpsZA
in Parliament last week. Hoping other countries in the continent follow the example! Read
more<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6889…435980>.
* [En español] Un camino por el acceso de las comunidades: de los telecentros a las
redes comunitarias, por Florencia Roveri de Nodo TAU, Argentina. Leer
más<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6890&…435980>.
* Empowering local communities to build, maintain and expand their community network.
Read
more<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6891…435980>.
* 'Anti-authority' tech rebels take on ISPs, connect NYC with cheap Wi-Fi.
Read
more<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6892…435980>.
* Dustin’s internet community roadtrip: In the Bay Area, what redwoods can teach us
about the internet. Read
more<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6893…435980>.
* Sovereignty is more than a designation, it is a responsibility. Read
more<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6894…435980>.
* [Em portugués] No canal no YouTube do Projeto de Redes Comunitárias do Nupef tem
vídeos novos pra assistir! Assista
aqui<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6895…435980>.
5. Relevant articles on technologies and other resources related to local access
networks
* [En Français] Wi-Fi hot spots to be implemented throughout Togo. Read
more<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6896…435980>.
* Investing in Last-Mile Internet Connectivity Initiatives: Opportunities for social
and commercial returns. Read
more<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6897…435980>.
6. Regulation
* Indigenous Community
Telecommunications<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/…435980>,
a civil society association in Mexico, has withstood an important legal
battle<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=68…
for the right of indigenous communities to establish and manage their own community
networks of mobile phones and internet. Read
more<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6900…435980>.
* The Democratic Republic of Congo’s National Assembly adopts a new Telecommunications
Act. Cellcos handed LTE licences. Read
more<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6901…435980>.
* Innovative Licensing Approaches: Enabling access in hard-to-reach places through
collaborative partnerships. Read
more<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6902…435980>.
* Community Networks in the EU Parliament - A panel on “Obligations for small
providers” with Evangelos Ouzounis, Head of Secure Infrastructure and Services, ENISA;
Bruno Veluet, CEO of Leonix, Paris-based B2B ISP member of AOTA; Caty Nymann, Chair,
Communication Networks Regulation Working Group, DIGITALEUROPE; and Panayotis Antoniadis,
co-founder at NetHood. Watch
here<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6903…435980>.
7. Reports and publications
7.1 Reports relevant to community networks and local access initiatives
* Decolonising the internet: Second International Cyberfeminist Meeting (15 March
2018, Salvador, Brazil). The group adopted a set of principles including principle #4:
“The promotion of alternative networks self-managed by communities.” Read
more<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6904…435980>.
* Unleashing Community Networks: Innovative licensing approaches. This paper by ISOC
builds on their “Spectrum Paper” and focuses specifically on innovative licensing options
for community networks. Read
more<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6905…435980>.
7.2 Academic updates related to community networks
* Gwaka, L. T., May. J., & Tucker, W. Towards low‐cost community networks in rural
communities: The impact of context using the case study of Beitbridge, Zimbabwe. E J Info
Sys Dev Countries. 2018; e12029. Read
more<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6906…435980>.
* Leader Brenda Vilas Boas, “An EPICS Adventure: Bringing Telephone and Internet
Service to the Amazon”, IEEE Women in Engineering Magazine. Read
more<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6907…435980>.
* Tonny Okwonga from the non-profit organization BOSCO Uganda presented at the ICT4D
conference in Lusaka, Zambia, on Empowering refugees: livelihood enhancement through ICTs.
Read
more<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6908…435980>.
* Call for academic papers for the 2019 IFIP WG 9.4 Conference “Strengthening
Southern-driven cooperation as a catalyst for ICT4D", with two tracks that might be
of interest: “ICT4D for the Indigenous, by the Indigenous and of the Indigenous” and
“Communities, ICT-Enabled Networks, and Development”. Deadline for papers is 3 September
2018. Read
more<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6909…435980>.
* The 1st Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS 2018), formerly
ACM Dev (where many academic papers on community networks were presented), will take place
on 20-22 June 2018 in California, USA. Papers of potential interest to community networks
are: Adaptive Threshold Setting for Determining Spectrum Occupancy in TV White Space
(note); DIY Model for Mobile Network Deployment: A Step Towards 5G for All (note);
Information-Centric Multi-Access Edge Computing Platform for Community Mesh Networks
(paper); Nation-State Hegemony in Internet Routing (paper); and Zyxt: A Network Planning
Tool for Rural Wireless ISPs (paper). Read
more<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6910…435980>.
* The ICTD 2019 Conference will take place 4-7 January 2019 in Ahmedabad, India. A
call for participation with papers/posters is open until 22 July 2018. Read
more<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6911…435980>.
8. Software releases for community networks
* There are plenty of new releases coming out of the Mesh is in the Air meeting. We
just put together a list with a few of them, but you are invited to go and pick your
favourite. Read
more<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6886…435980>.
1. Mesh Routing
Simulator<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u…435980>:
A simplistic mesh routing simulator to sketch algorithms and edit mesh data.
2. Mesh Testbed
Generator<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u…435980>:
Config-Mgmt. for OpenWRT (ImageBuilder) for setting up a homogeneous network (i.e. for
testbeds).
3. OpenWISP
2<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6914&am…435980>:
A growing open source network management system for OpenWRT.
9. Previous editions
* Previous editions of this newsletter are available
here<https://crm.apc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6915…435980>.
This newsletter is part of the project titled, “Local Access Networks: Can the unconnected
connect themselves?” developed by APC in partnership with Internet Society and
Rhizomática, with support from Canada's International Development Research Centre
(IDRC).
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