| Community Networks for rural communities in Colombia - 23/06/2020 |
| Asociación Colnodo |
| Technical Community and Civil Society | The Americas | Colombia (Republic of) |
| From Colnodo we accompany processes of rural community networks of Intranet, Internet and mobile telephony, so that indigenous and rural communities that in Colombia have not been able to access quality communication services appropriate to their needs, can design build and maintain their own technological means of communication. During the confinement due to the COVID-19 health crisis, these netw (...) |
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| Educational platforms - 15/06/2020 |
| COOLAB |
| Technical Community and Civil Society | The Americas | Brazil (Federative Republic of) |
| Not long ago many schools banned smartphone use in classrooms, and suddenly the pandemic forced so many classes to be done online, several students with limited connectivity had their studies jeopardized. We also tried to address this issue in the #liberaowifi action, described above. But there also issues with the educational platforms themselves: many of them are not adapted to low bandwidth, lo (...) |
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Perma Link Keywords: Educational, community network, research |
| Protocol for Accompanying Community Network Deployments in Social Isolation Scenarios - 10/06/2020 |
| Asociación Civil AlterMundi |
| Technical Community and Civil Society | The Americas | Argentine Republic |
| To use international funds and USF for immediate deployments, wherever there is a community in a position to deploy a community Internet network. Here you can find a Protocol for Accompanying Community Network Deployments in Social Isolation Scenarios: https://altermundi.net/protocolo/ |
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| Libera o wifi - 15/05/2020 |
| COOLAB |
| Technical Community and Civil Society | The Americas | Brazil (Federative Republic of) |
| During the pandemic, we realized that connectivy needs would go beyond our regular work in community networks. In fact, being forced to stay at home would make more people depend on Internet conectivity to have access to safety, mental health, and basic necessities. The problem is that many people depend on mobile phone internet for messaging, ordering and even paying bill, and in Brazil most of t (...) |
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Perma Link Keywords: wifi, share, community network, inclusion, minorities |
| Promotion of Community networks - 01/05/2020 |
| Coolab |
| Technical Community and Civil Society | The Americas | Brazil (Federative Republic of) |
| CooLab was founded originally to develop installations, technology and awareness of community-based, self managed networks. We believe that this model creates opportunities for all those who are below the financial requirements of market connectivity options and those who want to take control of their data and the technology used to transport it. Community networks create a resilient and autonomou (...) |
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Perma Link Keywords: Community networks, inclusion, minorities, accessibility, digital divide |
| Open Gouv launches All Against COVID-19 portal - 01/05/2020 |
| Open Gouv Haiti |
| Technical Community and Civil Society | The Americas | Haiti (Republic of) |
| OpenGouv Haiti has launched a national information portal on COVID-19 which offers a space for collaboration and helps to rally the various actors of civil society around a shared strategy to carry the appropriate awareness messages to their target audiences, while being a resource platform for monitoring all the statistics of evolution of the disease. A space for “citizen watch” is also created f (...) |
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Perma Link Keywords: open government; transparency; citizen watch |