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On behalf of the Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity (DC3) of the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF), I would like to offer the book “The Community Network Manual: How to Build the Internet Yourself” as a contribution to the ongoing ITU consultation on "Expanding Internet Connectivity".
This volume is the 2018 annual outcome of the DC3, which is a multistakeholder group, created within the IGF, to foster a cooperative analysis of community networks, exploring how such initiatives can improve and expand connectivity while empowering Internet users.
Community networks are collaborative networks, developed in a bottom-up fashion by group of individuals – i.e. a community – that conceives, deploys, and lastly manages the new network infrastructure as a common good. Besides being particularly useful in terms of connectivity expansion and, therefore, fulfilment of the Sustainable Development Goals – notably Goal 9 – the raise of CNs also offers a solid demonstration of how Internet governance processes can allow different stakeholders to cooperate to achieve common goals and concretely influence the evolution of the Internet.
The fundamental goal of this volume is to provide to any interested person a manual offering instructions, strategies and useful suggestions to create CNs, make them sustainable and scalable, while being mindful of complying with regulation, thus keeping networks as spaces for the enjoyment and promotion of rights and respect of legislation. In this volume you will find the following content:
PREFACE, by Bruno Ramos
1 Community Networks: Bridging Digital Divides through the Enjoyment of Network Self-determination, by Luca Belli
PART I: How to Build your Community Network
2 Building Community Wireless Networks: A How-to Guide for the Curious, by Steven Mansour and Sascha Meinrath
3 Building Community LTE Networks with CoLTE, by Spencer Sevilla, Pathirat Kosakanchit, Matthew Johnson and Kurtis Heimerl
4 The MAZI Toolkit for Do-It-Yourself Networking, by Harris Niavis, Stavroula Maglavera, Aris Dadoukis and John Mavridis
5 LibreRouter: the Hardware and Software Platform for Community Networking, by Nicolas Echániz and Florencia López Pezé
PART II: Scalable, Sustainable and Law-compliant Community Networks
6 Multiple Dimensions of Community Network Scalability, by Roger Baig Viñas, Leandro Navarro and Ramon Roca i Tió
7 Federating Community Networks: A Case-study from France, by Félix Tréguer
8 Fostering Sustainability of Community Networks: Guidelines to Respect the European Legal Framework, by Virginie Aubrée and Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay
9 Complementary Networks Meet Complementary Currencies: Guifi.net Meets Sardex.net, by Panayotis Antoniadis, Jens Martignoni, Leandro Navarro and Paolo Dini
10 What Could Blockchain do for Community Networks, by Panayotis Antoniadis and Jens Martignoni
11 DECLARATION ON COMMUNITY CONNECTIVITY
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