Today, Saturday January 2 2021, at 8:30pm EST (01:30 UTC) in the eighth instalment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ 2020 highlights, we feature the final session – a Summit Roundtable – of Community Network Exchange 2020 (CNX APAC 2020), on December 4 2020. The 4th annual CNX APAC had the theme ‘Meaningful access with Community Networks‘ and comprised 11 sessions over two weeks. The roundtable was the closer, and commences with a summary of all those preceeding sessions from facilitators Sarbani Belur and Sarah Farooqui.
SPEAKERS Onno W. Purbo, Indonesia’s Internet Liberator (Indonesia) Atsuko Okuda, Regional Director, Asia and the Pacific, ITU Mahabir Pun, Founder, Nepal Wireless networking Project & National Innovation Centre (Nepal) Mary Grace Mirandilla-Santos, Independent ICT Policy Researcher (Philippines) Osama Manzar, Founder/Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation (India)
MODERATOR Rajnesh Singh, Regional Vice President – Asia Pacific, Internet Society
From 20 November to 2nd December 2020 theInternet Society in collaboration with the Digital Empowerment Foundation, and other partners, presents Community Network Exchange 2020 (CNX APAC 2020). The 4th annual CNX APAC will have the theme ‘Meaningful access with Community Networks‘ with ten sub-themes that will address various dimensions related to meaningful access with community networks and how local communities can leverage them. Webinars will be held online over 5 days, with 2 sessions per day, plus a final closing roundtable. All webinars will begin at 06:00 UTC
20th November
Session 1: Community Network Models & Best Practices
Gustaff Harriman Iskandar, Bandung Center for New Media Arts (Indonesia) Ritu Srivastava, Chair, IEEE Working Group Grades of service in rural areas Senthil Kumar M, Founder/CEO, Geomeo Informatics (India) Peter Bloom, General Coordinator/Founder, Rhizomatica MODERATOR – Rajnesh Singh, Regional Vice President Asia-Pacific, Internet Society
Session 2: Access during the pandemic: Saving Democracy, Citizenship & Education
Talant Sultanov, Chair, Internet Society Kyrgyz Chapter Svetlana Zens, Senior Programme Associate, Digital Rights, Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business (MCRB) Ananda Gautam, Program/Policy Officer, Internet Governance Institute (Nepal) MODERATOR – Osama Manzar, Founder/Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation (India)
23rd November
Session 3: Policy & Regulation for Mass Adoption of Community Networks
Carlos Rey-Moreno, Co-Lead Networks Policy and Strategy, Association for Progressive Communications (Spain) / Co-Founder of zenzeleni.net (South Africa) – Achia Nila, Founder/CEO, Women in Digital (WIDBD) (Bangladesh) John Jack, Deputy Chief Information Officer, Vanuatu Government Teddy Woodhouse, Research Manager for Access and Affordability, , World Wide Web Foundation, UK (United Kingdom) MODERATOR – Sarah Farooqui, Research and Advocacy Manager, Digital Empowerment Foundation (India)
Session 4: Community Networks as a Model to fight Misinformation & Fakenews
Waqas Hassan. President, Internet Society Pakistan Islamabad Chapter Lisa Garcia, Executive Director, Foundation for Media Alternatives (Philippines) Heru Tjatur, Web Development Consultant (Indonesia) MODERATOR – Osama Manzar, Founder/Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation (India)
26th November
Session 5: Gender Sensitive Community Networking
Shalini A, Project Officer, Janastu (India) Maureen Hilyard, Former Chair, Board of the Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society (PICISOC) (Cook Islands) Sarbani Belur, Senior Research Scientist, Gram Marg Yumna Panday, Project Support Coordinator, Zenzeleni Networks (South Africa)
MODERATOR – Anju Mangal, Asia Regional Coordinator, Alliance for Affordable Internet (Fiji)
Session 6: Content, Context and Community for Community Networks
Ramprasad Venkatesha, Programme Manger, BAIF Development Research Foundation (India) Michael Suantak, Founder, ASORCOM (Myanmar) Maureen Hernández, Systems Engineer, Universidad de Los Andes (Venezuela)
MODERATOR – Udita Chaturvedi, Team Lead, Knowledge Communication & Dissemination, Dasra (India)
30th November
Session 7: Community Radio & Broadcasting with Community Networks
Laila Ndagire, Developmental Journalist, Producer & Presenter, MAMA FM (Uganda) Venu Arora, Co-founder & Director, Ideosync Media Combine (India) Bazlur Rahman, CEO, Bangladesh NGOs Network for radio and Communication
MODERATOR – Osama Manzar, Founder/Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation (India)
Session 8: Training & Cadre Development for Community Networks
John Dada, CEO, Fantsuam Foundation (Nigeria) Sylvia Cadena, Head of Programs, APNIC Foundation (Australia) Ritu Srivastava, Chair, IEEE Working Group Grades of service in rural areas
MODERATOR – Naveed Haq, Regional Infrastructure and Connectivity Director, Internet Society (Pakistan)
2nd December –
Session 9: Partnerships & Collaborations for Community Networks
Anju Mangal, Asia Regional Coordinator, Alliance for Affordable Internet (Fiji) Leandro Navarro, Associate professor, Technical University of Catalonia (Spain) Sarbani Belur, Senior Research Scientist, Spoken Tutorial, IIT Bombay (India)
MODERATOR Jane Coffin, Senior Vice President, Internet Growth Internet Society (USA)
Session 10: Connecting Indigenous Communities
Emani Lui, Founder & Director, Makanet (New Zealand) Nasir Hashmi, Community Network Implementor Mark Buell, Regional Vice President – North America, Internet Society
MODERATOR Maureen Hilyard, Development Consultant & Founder, The Cook Islands Internet Action group (CIIAG) (Cook Islands)
4th December – Roundtable Summit
SPEAKERS Onno W. Purbo, Indonesia’s Internet Liberator Indonesia) Atsuko Okuda, Regional Director, Asia and the Pacific, ITU Mahabir Pun, Founder, Nepal Wireless networking Project & National Innovation Centre (Nepal) Mary Grace Mirandilla-Santos, Independent ICT Policy Researcher (Philippines) Osama Manzar, Founder/Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation (India)
MODERATOR
Rajnesh Singh, Regional Vice President – Asia Pacific, Internet Society
Today, Saturday January 2 2021, at 8:30pm EST (01:30 UTC) in the eighth instalment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ 2020 highlights, we feature the final session – a Summit Roundtable – of Community Network Exchange 2020 (CNX APAC 2020), on December 4 2020. The 4th annual CNX APAC had the theme ‘Meaningful access with Community Networks‘ and comprised 11 sessions over two weeks. The roundtable was the closer, and commences with a summary of all those preceeding sessions from facilitators Sarbani Belur and Sarah Farooqui.
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