Matt/Mariel
– is there more re what is bankable from your experience?
Best,
Jane
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Thanks, (and a request for more cases below if you read the
details)
To me it is a great proof of the level of maturity a CN can
achieve. The offer document is a perfect example of how a
community infrastructure can be attractive not only to the
local beneficiaries, but also to anyone attracted by social
impact and ethical investment. The lesson to me is just how
encouraging it is to see that there are ways that work in the
really hard case of successful ethical investment.
What works for cooperative fibre there, works similarly in
guifi.net with the XAFOGAR project with public/private
investment, (page 99), can work too for IXPs,
distributed IXPs like what guifi.net or REMIX (Scotland) does, or what
other cooperative fiber networks can do.
Do you know of any other "bankable" network infrastructure?
(including access, distributed IXPs, open-access wholesale
networks).
This is in the context of these slides (slides 6, 7 show
different models and layering of optical networks), prepared
for IETF 105 but saved to the next
IETF 106 due to lack of time in a very interesting session
chaired by Jane and me in Toronto. If you give me examples I
can add them to the collection for a WIP document.
In fact, I am writing this from home with my guifi.net IP
address, one of the cases in these slides, a 600 Mbps optical
network connection using the Telefonica NEBA (VULA/Bitstream)
wholesale service to reach the guifi.net exchange in
Barcelona, operated by eXO.cat, the Barcelona volunteer
association as part of guifi.net.
All the best, Leandro.
On 30/07/2019 11:33, Jane Coffin wrote:
Leandro -
Thank you very much.
Critical to use this example and work with investors moving forward for CNs and small local access nets.
Jane
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On 7/30/19, 3:01 AM, "dc3-bounces@listas.altermundi.net on behalf of Leandro Navarro" <dc3-bounces@listas.altermundi.net on behalf of leandro@pangea.org> wrote:
From Triodos, a pioneer in ethical banking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triodos_Bank
They offered a round of investment open to the public in the B4RN rural
community fibre. You can see they reached 102% of the target investment
(3 Million GBP) in this public call:
https://www.triodoscrowdfunding.co.uk/invest/broadband-for-the-rural-north
In the offer document you can see the description of the initiative for
potential investors. They offer 4.5% interest rate for an investment in
7 year term. The call it seems is still open for another month but
oriented to UK residents. A proof that CN proposals can be both feasible
and sustainable in financial (bankable) and local impact.
All the best, Leandro.
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