This book is the Official 2017 Outcome of the UN IGF Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity (DC3). DC3 is a multistakeholder group, fostering a cooperative analysis of the community network model, exploring how community networks may be used to improve connectivity while empowering Internet users. This volume explores the benefits of community networks, analysing case studies, focusing on the challenges and opportunities for these networks and putting forward concrete recommendations for their development. The book includes the updated version of the Declaration on Community Connectivity, which was elaborated through a multistakeholder participatory process, facilitated by the DC3. The Declaration emphasise that community networks are crowdsourced networks “structured to be open, free, and to respect network neutrality. Such networks rely on the active participation of local communities in the design, development, deployment, and management of shared infrastructure as a common resource, owned by the community, and operated in a democratic fashion.”
- Páginas: 244
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- ISBN: 978-85-9597-010-6
PREFACE by Kathryn Brown
PREFACE by Jan Dröge
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
1. Introducing the Evolving Community Network Debate
Luca Belli
PART I: Benefits, Challenges and Opportunities for Community Networks
2. Network Self-Determination and the Positive Externalities of Community Networks
Luca Belli
3. Barriers for Development and Scale of Community Networks in Africa
Carlos Rey-Moreno
4. Community Networks as a Key Enabler of Sustainable Access
Michael J. Oghia
5. Can the Unconnected Connect Themselves? Towards an Action Research Agenda for Local Access Networks
Carlos Rey-Moreno, Anriette Esterhuysen, Mike Jensen, Peter Bloom, Erick Huerta and Steve Song
6. The Success of Community Mobile Telephony in Mexico and its Plausibility as an Alternative to Connect the Next Billion
Erick Huerta, Peter Bloom and Karla Velasco
PART II: Case Studies: Building Connectivity in a Bottom-up Fashion
7. Policy Gaps and Regulatory Issues in the Indian Experience on Community Networks
Ritu Srivastava
8. Community-Led Networks for Sustainable Rural Broadband in India: the Case of Gram Marg
Sarbani Banerjee Belur, Meghna Khaturia and Nanditha P. Rao
9. Comparing Two Community Network Experiences in Brazil
Bruno Vianna
10. Beyond the Invisible Hand: the Need to Foster an Ecosystem Allowing for Community Networks in Brazil
Nathalia Foditsch
11. Diseño e Implementación de una Aplicación Web para la Visualización Mundial de Despliegues de Redes Comunitarias
Maureen Hernandez
12 DECLARATION ON COMMUNITY CONNECTIVITY
13 MAIN ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS