Diagrams describing community networks are often a good way of introducing unfamiliar concepts. There are many different types of diagrams that may be useful. Here is a topic to post good examples.
Like this one of a traditional mobile operator deployment:
HI @mike - thanks so much for sharing these illustrations of CNs. I like how the sketch shows coverage of a village with a few details and in a non-technical, non-intimidating kind of way.
I am also posting some other links that have been shared by others, but I have not sifted through to see which ones are more technical or less technical:
As a follow up,
One of our CN colleagues referred me to the Digital Empowerment Foundation curriculum and specifically this guidebook on network planning:
Thanks Kathleen, there’s some great resources there…
I also realised that schematic diagrams are also useful, such as this one below that I took a picture of Indonesia at the Puspindes/RelawanTIK network in Pemalang last year.
As a follow up,
One of our CN colleagues referred me to the Digital
Empowerment Foundation curriculum and specifically this
guidebook on network planning:
Cards are another riff on ‘diagrams’ which I hadn’t thought of, which sounds like a great educational strategy. Here is a picture from Colnodo’s CN project in Colombia.
Here’s the last diagram I made for Moinho. It’s a bit outdated but was really useful to pinpoint the problems we had to solve. And we did, most of them
Here’s the latest update of our community network in Moinho, and how we were able to fix most of the links that the diagram was showing to be of bad quality. It also now includes links made with Ethernet cables.