Today, Tuesday February 11 2020 at 11:30 PST (19:30 UTC) Dr. Hosein Badram, Regional Technical Advisor – North America Bureau, Internet Society, will present ‘Connecting Indigenous Communities: Examples and Lessons Learned‘ at NANOG 78 in San Francisco. He will cover the recent successful deployment of a private LTE network in the community of Pu’uhonua o Waimanalo in Hawaii, as well as an upcoming deployment in the Northern Canadian community of Uluhokhtak. The talk will be simulcast on the Internet Society Livestream Channel.
On November 14-15 2019 the Internet Society, in partnership with the Georgian Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development, organizes the European Community Networks Summit “Community Networks: Connecting the Next Billion” in Tbilisi, Georgia. Over the past few years, community networks have emerged as a low-cost, community-driven way to bring Internet connections to some of the remotest and underserved parts of the world, including in the mountainous region of Tusheti, Georgia. However, these community-led solutions face many challenges that require policymaker’s consideration to flourish.
2019 წლის 14-15 ნოემბერს ინტერნეტ საზოგადოება, საქართველოს ეკონომიკისა და მდგრადი განვითარების სამინისტროსთან თანამშრომლობით, თბილისში, საქართველოში აწყობს ევროპული საზოგადოების ქსელების სამიტს “სათემო ქსელები: შემდეგი მილიარდის დაკავშირება”. ბოლო რამდენიმე წლის განმავლობაში, საზოგადოებრივი ქსელები წარმოიქმნა, როგორც იაფი, საზოგადოებაზე ორიენტირებული გზა, რათა მიეწოდებინათ ინტერნეტ – კავშირი მსოფლიოს ზოგიერთ შორეულ და დაუცველ ნაწილში, მათ შორის, საქართველოში, თუშეთის მაღალმთიან რეგიონში. ამასთან, თემის წინამორბედ გადაწყვეტილებებს მრავალი გამოწვევა ემუქრება, რაც პოლიტიკის შემქმნელების აყვავებას მოითხოვს. ამრიგად, ინტერნეტ საზოგადოება პარტნიორობს საქართველოს ეკონომიკისა და მდგრადი განვითარების სამინისტროსთან, რომ ამ ნოემბერში თბილისში გაიმართოს დიდი საერთაშორისო კონფერენცია, რათა დააზიანოს დაინტერესებული მხარეები და ევროკავშირის პოლიტიკოსები მთელს ევროპაში.
Home to over 4 billion people and covering more than 50 countries and territories, Asia-Pacific is the largest and most diverse region of the globe. The region accounts for more than half of the world’s mobile subscriber base, while only 7% of people in the region have fixed broadband access. Connecting the unconnected remains a major challenge for both governments and the industry.
Over the last few years, community networks have emerged as a complementary way to connect people and to allow for low-cost, community-driven solutions to be developed to connect people in underserved locations. However, these community-led solutions face a number of challenges that require policymakers and regulators consideration so that they may flourish.
Jointly organized by ESCAP (Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific) and the Internet Society, this multistakeholder dialogue covered technology, best practices, regulations and socioeconomic issues; highlighted community network projects in the region as best practice; and included policy options for infrastructure sharing, spectrum allocation, and universal service funds.
08:00 Inaugural Session
08:20 Plenary 1: Setting the scene – Innovating to connect the unconnected
09:40 Break
09:50 Plenary 2: Community Networks and SDGs
11:00 Break
11:10 Plenary 3: Policy and Regulatory Support
12:15 Break
12:25 Roundtable: Future Prospects for alternative last mile access in the Asia-Pacific
13:05 End
RE: Infrastructures is a 3-day conference in Toronto,, from September20-23 2019, exploring the collective care and maintenance of alternative networking practices—new protocols, peer-to-peer connections, offline-first computing, and community-based governance.
How can these emerging Infrastructures of Repair provide spaces to imagine radically different futures, resist easy co-option by the forces of late-stage capitalism, and work in solidarity as plural networks seeking emancipatory change? To answer this we draw on insights from organizers, technologists, artists, and scholars to ensure the focus is not only on the technical aspects of infrastructure, but also the social and cultural. Their diverse perspectives suggest ways we can make space for livelihoods, solidarity, and survival; draw on history and place to bring our fullest imaginations to this moment; and open ways to think these questions together as we build transitional forms. The event will be simulcast on theInternet Society Livestream Channel.
Hoy, martes 13 de agosto 2019 a las 15:00 UTC, se transmitirá the Internet Society Livestream Channel una grabación al Webinar: “Redes Comunitarias: ¿Por qué Redes? ¿Por qué Comunitarias?” que se realizará el 24 Julio 2019, organizado por Internet Society Colombia Chapter y la Universidad de Cundinamarca dentro de las actividades definidas en el Grupo de Trabajo de Redes Comunitarias (GTRC) de Internet Society Colombia Chapter. Conferencista: Wilson Daniel Gordillo Ochoa
Today, Wednesday June 12 2019 at 12pm EDT (16:00 UTC) the Internet Society Livestream Channel will restream the NYC Mesh Org Meetup on June 11 2019, held at Adobe’s NYC office. Volunteers presented updates on 1) Supernode 3, now operational in West Brooklyn, 2) a large bandwidth donation 3) financial issues, including the cost of installs, donation structure, and the need for fresh funding 4) progress on developing an independent sustainable organizational entity, and 5) node map design on the NYC Mesh website.
ABOUT NYC MESH
NYC Mesh is a community-owned decentralized mesh network for NYC. It is for both local use and access to the internet. https://nycmesh.net/
NYC Mesh is a project of the Internet Society New York Chapter http://isoc-ny.org
Today, Thursday 28 March 2019, at 11am ET (15:00 UTC) the Internet Society Livestream Channel will webcast a recording of a session Promoting Gender Inclusion for Community Networks in Africa at the Third Summit on Community Networks in Africa, held at Wild Lubanzi Trail Lodge, Eastern Cape, South Africa, took place on 3rd September 2019. Particpants discussed strategies on how to bring more women into the CN space and explore the silent/non-visible role that currently women play.
MODERATOR Josephine Miliza (TunapandaNET)
SPEAKERS Lilian Achom (AfChix) Kgopotso Magoro (AfChix SA Chapter) Ritu Srivastava (DEF India) Tonny Okwonga (BOSCO Uganda) Sol Luca de Tena (Zenzeleni Networks)
Today, Tuesday January 15 2019 at 7pm ET (00:00 UTC) NYC Mesh will hold its monthly Org Meeting at the St Francis School for the Deaf in Brooklyn. There will be a a few short presentations, including one from a member of Freifunk Karlsruhe, Germany’s mesh network, before participants break out into groups. The presentations will be webcast via ISOC.LIVE
Today, Tuesday March 17 2020, at 10:00 UTC (06:00 EDT) the University of Oxford’s Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP) and the University of Johannesburg’s School of Communication present the 6th seminar of the Global Media and Policy Series (GMPSS). Ritu Srivastava of Jadeite Solutions (India) will be discussing ‘The Regulatory and Licensing Framework for Community Networks‘ with series director Dr Kira Allmann. The talk will focus on the regulatory and licensing frameworks that enable or inhibit community networks in Asia Pacific countries.
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