In last Friday I knew that the DC community networks was open, then, here i am :-).

I participate in 4 movements of civil society. Campanha Banda Larga é Um Direito Seu! Marco Civil Já Redes Livres Espectro Livre I stay president in Instituto Bem Estar Brasil that is a NGO with the mission to put internet access as a fundamental right. We act in two fronts. Creating communities networks Pressuring and debating with the federal government to make the regulations and laws more flexible to improve CNs. Since 2008 we are doing this and here in Brazil the scenario is this : 1 - Since 2008 every person or entity can share internet access following the rules of the resolution 506/2008 (ISM frequencies - WiFi); 2 - In 2013, after 3 years pressuring and debating with MiniCom and Anatel the agency create the resolution 617/2013, that make possible NGOs to provide internet access with more options of technology like fiber, DLS etc 3 - Since 2014 more resolutions are cooking (or soon for this) in the agency like : * Spectrum management resolution (public consult 14/2014) * Restricted radiation equipments resolution (public consult 23/2015) * Critical infrastructure resolution (resolution 656/2015) * Inefficiency use of spectrum resolution All of those four resolutions we are debating to separate more spectrum to community networks and without need of authorization and costs. The debate includes too the entry for others services with the same rules (or less rules :-)), like radio, tv and mobile services. In MiniCom (Communication Ministry) we a debating and try to build the common sense that community networks can be a public policy that can be integrated with others already consolidated like : * National Broadband Plan * BroadBand in the Schools * Digital City * Telecenters, Points of Culture, RadComs and TVComs, GESAC (internet access in public policies points), ProInfo (informatic labs in schools) * Public entities that works with policies of telecom infrastructure like Telebras and RNP And other stuff that we can talk later Here in Rio we are creating community networks with partnership of two universities : UENF and IFF. In the last years we create 6 community providers, but only with basic technical instructions. The topology of the networks is decentralized with ERBs working like hotspots with radius of 2 km. The infrastructure is based in 802.11 b/g, with RouterOS managing the network. The enlaces we are using rocket m5 (ubiquiti) and with dual polarization to improve the links. In the beginning we believe that only make the technical capacitation and helping to create that basic infrastructure all the problems after that will be solved naturally :-). Let's say that was our first learned lesson. Now we are working with the cultural question about self management, mainly with the strengthen of the associative process. We discovered until now that the sustainability needs to find a cultural behavior of collaboration and sense of responsibility (now obvious for us) and a way that we find out to solve this, is the associative process. In this year we will review the community providers and work more this process os self management and we will create more 10 community networks, selecting communities that already have minimum association process or want to create it as a premise to build a community network. Well, I'm stopping here, but I would like to know where is the pad or wiki that this DC are co-creating the ideas to help more. We have here more things to propose for debate and I will call more guys and girls that are working with CNs too and lets expand more the group. Thanks and sorry if this text is faulty :-), I did not reviewed it. I create in last week a mind map that is in V1 to help to understand the issues that we are debating in social, political, legal, educational and economical about CNs here. I pretend to translate and make it more easy to identify the topics and subtopics that I put in there. Here is the link https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx4eEPXqyQFuWFhKUDJxVWR1cU0/view?usp=sharin g We have more docs, but I want to know what the group are discussing to share the right contents. Thanks and lets build our own free networks _______________________________________________ DC3 mailing list DC3(a)listas.altermundi.net https://listas.altermundi.net/mailman/listinfo/dc3