LAC internet access projects selected by FRIDA/LACNIC
FRIDA, LACNIC’s Regional Fund for the Strengthening of the Internet in Latin America and the Caribbean, announced the winners of its annual call for proposals, including some initiatives related to community networks.
On the Internet Access category, the “Pilot Project for Television White Space Technology in Montes de María, Colombia” by ADITUM S.A.S. took the award for its proposal on alternative access models.
And the projects selected as grant recipients were:
“4G Community Network,” by Telecomunicaciones Indígenas Comunitarias, A.C., Mexico;
“LibreRouter V2.0: Evolving Technological Sovereignty," by Asociación Civil AlterMundi, Argentina;
“Community Communications Networks for Strengthening the Circular Economy and Social Exchange in La Macarena, Meta,” bu Asociación Colnodo, Colombia;
“Reducing the Digital Divide in Vulnerable Populations in the City of Córdoba through the Use of WIFI and Unlicensed LTE Technology,” by the City of Córdoba.
19 Oct 2021 Costa Rica project helps to promote Cabécar culture, language
A project with Sula Batsu with partnership with WACC and APC.
“La antena de las mujeres (Women’s Antenna), seeks to address this challenge by establishing a local community network that will provide Cabecar women the tools to integrate young people in knowledge exchange processes using digital technologies”
Seeding change: Creating a digital community network with the Ju|’hoan people in Namibia
This catalytic project built a digital community network for the Ju|’hoan people living in the remote Nyae Nyae Conservancy in Namibia. The team involved worked together with the community to co-design an offline social network that allowed the Ju|'hoansi people to exchange audio recordings, including ones about gardening challenges and practices to produce their food. Beyond overcoming the many access challenges faced in the region, their experience highlighted the value of technologies co-designed in a community-oriented approach and the importance of local content sharing.
INFRASTRUCTURES OF RESISTANCE: COMMUNITY NETWORKS HACKING THE GLOBAL CRISIS
In this second year of living in times of unequal global health crisis, this special edition of GenderIT.org show how intersectional approaches in community networks have been transforming realities by embodying infrastructures of resistance and bringing hope to their communities:
The Centre for Information technology and development (CITAD) convened a one-day consultative meeting on gender and community networks. This piece brings their observations and recommendations:
The essence of community networks is more than the infrastructure. It’s giving communities power to self-determination, to build/adapt/use technologies that reflect their values, needs and priorities. @josephine.miliza / KICTANet
Numun Fund’s first grant entirely dedicated to supporting feminist tech activism and work in the Larger World is open!
The “Seed, Grow and Sustain” Grant Call is open from 1 July to 1 August 2022.
This is grant a multi-year, flexible grant open for application by initiatives, collectives, groups and organisations with a focus on feminist tech activism in the Larger World (aka the Global South).
Mapeo is an Open Source tool for monitoring and documenting the world around you, an offline peer to peer app that was thought from the ground up to easily document environmental and human rights information.
It can definitely be used for surveying community sites for potential places were to set up infrastructure, as well as for geographic needs for the community that are not directly connected with telecom infrastructure.
Terrastories is an Open Source tool for place based storytelling.
Many earth defender communities across the world express a strong relationship with their territory, and a commitment to taking care of their territory in the way their ancestors have for generations. Doing so requires a strong sense of place and place-based knowledge, and there is no better place to learn that than through storytelling.
Storytelling is the way that information gets passed through the generations, but as colonization, deforestation and acculturation creep deeper into communities’ ways of life, that living memory is threatened.