#CommunityNetworks

APCAPC
2025-05-12

>> What changes when connectivity is centred on the community? Hear local voices in the new season of our podcast:

apc.org/en/news/what-changes-w

---> Episode 1 features community-centred connectivity as a strategy that communities have developed for bridging the digital divide.

Illustration of diverse community members engaged in activities like farming, broadcasting, group discussions, and using digital devices, set in both rural and urban landscapes, symbolizing inclusive and community-driven connectivity.
2025-04-22

WEBCAST – NYC Mesh Org Meetup – April 22 2025

On Tuesday April 22, 2025, at 7pm EDT (23:00 UTC) NYC Mesh will hold its monthly Monthly Org Meetup.

PROGRAM
James - automating configuration (IaC)
Willard - a new tool for managing rooftop panoramas
Brian Hall -  current mesh topics

LIVESTREAM  | MEETUP

X @nycmesh  #growinternet #communitynetworks

isoc.live/19231/

#post #CommunityNetworks #nyc #NYCMesh

Fabiolabfab
2025-04-19

Satellite internet projects like Starlink claim to solve the digital divide while privatizing the commons of orbital space. Communities are building their own internet infrastructure through municipal broadband and cooperative networks instead of waiting for billionaire saviors.

APCAPC
2025-04-14

>> Interview with Adriane Gama: An Amazonian woman's reflections on community networks

"Lack of education and awareness contribute to the isolation of women in collective activities in their territories. Male hierarchy in decision making, machismo and individualism are other challenges that women can still face inside and outside the home."

--> Read more: apc.org/en/node/40644/

Panelists at the 2022 Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Ethiopia discuss community networks and digital inclusion.
2025-03-25

WEBCAST – NYC Mesh Org Meetup March 25 2025

On Tuesday March 25, 2025, NYC Mesh will hold its monthly Monthly Org Meetup.

PROGRAM
SN11 / VPP Update - Zach Giles
Panorama Database Analysis - Dustin Freeman
New Mesh Room / Automation - Dan Miller

LIVESTREAM youtu.be/EEGaBQ8zoeY

MEETUP meetup.com/nycmesh/events/3061

TWITTER @nycmesh #communitynetworks |  MASTODON  | BLUESKY  | INSTA

isoc.live/19070/

#post #NYCMesh

The various #CommunityNetworks should federate to launch a nationwide MVNO such that when their members are outside of their WiFi, they automatically roam on the MVNO techcentral.co.za/easier-to-la

APCAPC
2025-02-03

Are you subscribed to our newsletter?

> This week: Lessons from grassroots communities in times of

apc.org/en/news/community-netw

- You can subscribe to get monthly updates on local access and community networks crm.apc.org/content/local-acce

A group of four people in an outdoor rural setting examine a handmade device, possibly related to a community network project. One person in a blue vest and sun hat holds the device while explaining something. The background features green hills, a blue sky, and a small building.

Credit: A new community network, the "Red Ovejas Verdes," in Colombia. Photo: Colnodo

Source: APC Community Networks Newsletter
APCAPC
2025-01-21

From Anisacate, Argentina to Çatalköy, Cyprus: A journey of

> This journey by APC member Altermundi was fuelled by a mission to make more accessible and resilient.

- AlterMundi, with its extensive experience in projects like @libremesh, works with communities through decentralised technology.

However, challenges like network diagnostics and maintenance for non-technical users demanded innovative solutions.

Read more. apc.org/node/40487

Collage of photos showcasing a workshop setting with people working on open hardware projects related to mesh networking. Images include close-ups of circuit boards, equipment labeled "CHECUM," and Wi-Fi routers being assembled or tested. Participants are seen collaborating in a library-like space filled with books and laptops. The "Libre Router" logo and a sticker with the AlterMundi logo are also visible, emphasizing community-driven internet infrastructure projects.
2025-01-20

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2025-01-15

VIDEO – Naveed Haq Keynote at IEEE CTU Summit 2024 – Everest Community Network

isoc.live/18736/

#CommunityNetworks #ieee #NaveedHaq #nepal

APCAPC
2025-01-08

> People throughout the world are facing unprecedented challenges, from repression of human rights to unfettered consumption of digital and environmental resources.

- In this recap, APC features our network’s achievements and nurture the seeds we have planted

apc.org/node/40466

A stylized graphic titled 'Seeding Change: 2024 Year in Review' on a red-orange background. It features abstract, colorful floral and leaf-like designs in green, yellow, blue, and pink, arranged decoratively around the text.
2024-12-23

ISOC-NY TV: NYC Mesh – Hub Updates + 2024 Year in Review

On Wednesday December 25 2024 at 2pm the ISOC-NY TV show features presentations from NYC Mesh's November Meetup. Learn about the latest infrastructure upgrades in North America's largest community-owned Internet access network.

SPECTRUM 56 / 1996 | RCN 83 | FiOS 34

isoc.live/18697/

#nycmesh #communitynetworks #nyc

APCAPC
2024-12-16

The term has become a catch-all description of a wide range of activities at the community level.

> But what are the different types of community-centred connectivity initiatives?

APC and Rhizomatica present:

- A set of 13 principles that capture the ethos of community-centred connectivity

- A typology of community-centred connectivity initiatives developed through a combination of research and direct experience :

apc.org/node/40460

The image is titled "Types of community-centred connectivity initiatives." It features seven irregular pie charts, each representing a different type of initiative. These initiatives are labeled as follows:

    Self-provision (Collective, Government, Commercial)
    Social-purpose provision (Social enterprise, Cooperative)
    Entrepreneurial support (Commercial, Social enterprise)
    Public municipal provision (Public, Public service)
    Social business provision (Commercial, Government, Public service)
    Public national/regional provision (Public, Public service)
    Private business provision (Commercial, Public)

Each pie chart contains multiple segments with different colors, symbolizing a variety of approaches or contributions within each initiative type. The background is light green, and the text is centrally aligned under the title.
Miguel Afonso Caetanoremixtures@tldr.nettime.org
2024-12-09

"If we’re all working away in the citizen assemblies of the digital economy, shouldn’t we go one step further and start demanding a meaningful share of its spoils?

It can be difficult to imagine the real viability of deepening the practices of democracy online in a world that feels more divided than ever. It’s even harder when one considers the multiple ways in which the current Big Tech model — the need for an incessant upward march of tech valuations, the constant creation of new hype cycles — has become systemically important for the ongoing viability of the global economy. Nonetheless, such intellectual work remains a vital long-term goal, more crucial today than ever. We should not shy away from the potentially utopian project of meaningfully governable computational “stacks,” even if, as James Muldoon has written, the odds are against us, and “it has become easier for us to imagine humans living forever in colonies on Mars than exercising meaningful democratic control over digital platforms.”

Through organizing, advocacy, and, yes, new and imaginative sociotechnical institutional forms, we might one day be able to finally escape the sharp gravitational pull of the internet’s implicit hierarchies."

jacobin.com/2024/12/internet-d

#SocialMedia #SocialNetworks #Decentralization #CommunityNetworks #NetworkDemocracy #ContentModeration

APCAPC
2024-11-28

From village roots to digital dreams: How women are transforming rural connectivity and driving community change

> This article draws inspiration from the story of a remarkable woman from a rural part of who empowered her community to take bold steps toward digital transformation.

- By Harira Wakili, from Nigeria's Centre for Information Technology and Development: apc.org/node/40441

APCAPC
2024-11-26

APC is looking for a contract grants administrator for the initiative.

Deadline is this Friday, 29 November 👇

apc.org/node/40426

A group of children gathered closely together, intently looking at a computer screen, surrounded by empty chairs and desks in a classroom-like setting. Original illustration: Gustavo Nascimento. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.
APCAPC
2024-11-18

> Call for applications

- Contract grants administrator for the Local Networks initiative:

apc.org/en/news/call-applicati

Illustration shows a group of children gathered around a shared screen, engaged and collaborating in a community setting. Original illustration by Gustavo Nascimento, licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA..
APCAPC
2024-11-15

What does it mean to consider meaningful connectivity through a community-oriented perspective?

Read this chapter in the 2024 special edition, available in multiple digital formats 👇

giswatch.org/en/internet-gover

Yellow banner with the following text, taking from the GISWatch 2024 report: “For connections to be really meaningful for a population, it is essential to recognise value in the community production of knowledge, community understandings of the world, and the ways of life that inhabit unconnected territories. Read more in “What does “meaningful connectivity” actually mean? A community-oriented perspective” by Kathleen Diga (APC), Nils Brock and Bruna Zanolli (Rhizomatica)"

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