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Name :	BELLI, Luca
Date :	October 22, 2020
Organization :	FGV Law School
Country :	Brazil
Job Title :	Professor
Contribution :	To contribute the ITU consultation on "Expanding Internet Connectivity", we offer the Official 2019 Outcome of the Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity (DC3) of the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF). The DC3 is a multistakeholder group, fostering a cooperative analysis of community networks, exploring how such initiatives can improve and expand connectivity while empowering Internet users. Community Networks (CNs) are crowd-sourced collaborative networks, developed in a bottom-up fashion by groups of individuals – i.e. communities – that design, develop and manage the network infrastructure as a common resource. This book provides concrete suggestions regarding the policy elements that should be considered by regulators and other stakeholders alike in order to develop enabling frameworks for community networks. This work complements the previous DC3 publications dedicated to “Community Connectivity: Building the Internet from Scratch” (2016); “Community Networks: the Internet by the People, for the People” (2017); and “The Community Network Manual: How to Build the Internet Yourself” (2018). All DC3 publications are freely available on the IGF website and at www.comconnectivity.org The purpose of this volume is therefore to offer a solid base for discussion on how CN policies and regulations might be elaborated, in the hope that such suggestions can be useful to start a constructive multistakeholder dialogue leading to positive change. The three sections of this volume have been crafted in a collaborative fashion with the goal of offering a pragmatic guide to any stakeholder interested in understanding what CNs are, which elements and actions are essential to develop CN policies, and how such elements could look like in a potential policy blueprint.
Attachments :	Building community network policies.pdf