New subject: RES: Fwd: RES: IGF workshop proposal accepted!!!!

15 Aug 2016

Full day workshop sounds like a great idea.

One of the things we talked about at the Go Local! event was the
possibility of coming up with a set of model conditions for local telco
initiatives to thrive.  This might range from Open Access policies around
fibre backbones to reduced importation taxes on unlicensed equipment to
license fees that favour small and/or non-profit organisations engaged in
connectivity.

One possibility would be to come up with a set of principles /
recommendations / conditions necessary to the growth of "local telco"
initiatives, both community and for-profit and build some momentum around
the idea/declaration.  In the past advocates for change have used a
"declaration" to move an agenda forward.  For Open Access academic
publishing, a diverse set of actors developed a set of principles known as
the Budapest Open Access Initiative (http://www.
budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/) to make common cause around access to
scholarly materials and similarly groups involved in Open Education came up
with the Cape Town Declaration on Open Education (http://www.
capetowndeclaration.org/).  There are others.  The point is that the
"declaration" allowed a number of disparate groups to make common cause on
an issue and became a rallying banner.

Perhaps we might come up with a Guadalajara Declaration on local telcos or
last mile diversity or bottom-up networks or, or, or.  It would take a lot
of work prior to the event to build consensus but might be worth doing.

Thoughts?

Regards... Steve

On 11 August 2016 at 14:53, Raoul Plommer &lt;plommer(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

...
  Sounds good and hopefully I can make it! :)

 -Raoul

 On 11 August 2016 at 20:06, Luca Belli &lt;luca.belli(a)fgv.br&gt; wrote:

  Hi Carlos and all,

 A couple of days ago, I had an off-list conversation with Jane and Mike
 and we thought about proposing an IGF pre-event on the afternoon of 5
 December and follow-up with APC Disco-Tech https://www.apc.org/en/news/hi
 ghlights-2013-disco-tech

 What do you and other list-member think?

 All the best

 Luca

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 *Assunto:* Re: [DC3] IGF workshop proposal accepted!!!!

 Hi Jane et al,

 I think your idea is great. I had the chance to participate in a similar
 event organized by Steve and Peter in 2014 around ACMDev and GAIA in
 Berkeley (http://decentralizethis.org/Go_Local!_Workshop) and the energy
 and knowledge I gathered at that event is still with me. If I can choose I
 would prefer the event to be before IGF.

 By the way, these are the videos from CNs in Africa that I know about,
 maybe you can add them to your list:
 - The BBC dedicated one of their Click Programs to one of the most
 important Community Netowrks in Africa: Macha Works, in Macha, Zambia:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei4Inh3W03M
 - Video about Tunapandanet, a mesh network in Kibera, Kenya:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKcdLC48fzo

 - We have also created a documentary about Zenzeleni Networks, the CN I'm
 personally involved in, located in Mankosi, South Africa:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxTPSWMX26M

 All the best,

 calros

 On 2 August 2016 at 19:00, Nicolás Echániz &lt;nicoechaniz(a)altermundi.net&gt;
 wrote:

 On 07/29/2016 11:37 AM, Jane Coffin wrote:
  Given the amazing energy around this great
workshop, and that so many
 people may be in one place.

 I wondered – should we take advantage of all of the great people coming
 to Guadalajara and hold a day-long Community Networking event? 
 Hi all,

 I believe it is a good idea to have day-long roundtable meetings
 (similar to what we had in Bogotá a few months ago). But I would propose
 that we consider a more detailed agenda that considers what we have been
 doing and the plans that are already in place so we can focus on moving
 forward.

 During the Bogotá meeting we proposed to use the Wiki to keep track of
 projects and initiatives and I did this only partially:

 http://dc3.libre.social

 BTW, Ernmanno and Marco, you are more than welcome to join the DC3
 mailing list!

 https://listas.altermundi.net/mailman/listinfo/dc3

 Cheers,
 Nico

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