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From community networks to shared networks: The paths of Latin-Centric Indigenous networks to a pluriversal internet
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 11 (2023), pp. 2326-2344
"This article examines, with ethnographic lenses, the emergence of shared networks in the Tseltal and Zapoteco communities in Chiapas and Oaxaca (Mexico). ‘Shared networks’ are first-mile signal-sharing practices that articulate interconnection infrastructure and values of coexistence to, in the
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Making a place for technology in communities: PlaceCal and the capabilities approach
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 6 (2023), pp. 1067-1086
"We discuss how a capability approach to information technology in neighbourhoods with low social capital can create embedded and sustainable Community Technology Partnerships (CTPs) that connect residents and institutions together, reducing barriers to social participation and collaborative action.
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Manual: Instructivo con diseños y planos para construir antenas guía de ondas
Córdoba: [no publisher] (2023), 19 pp.
Civic Coding: Empirische Erkenntnisse und Empfehlungen zur Unterstützung gemeinwohlorientierter KI
Berlin: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) (2023), 25 pp.
"Der Einsatz von Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) im Sinne des Gemeinwohls steckt noch in einer Erprobungsphase. Dieses Policy Paper präsentiert empirische Ergebnisse der Civic Coding-Studie, die die empirischen Befunde aus 20 Expert*innen-Interviews und zehn Fallstudien aus unterschiedlichen gemeinwo
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Log out_: A Glossary of Technological Resistance and Decentralization
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2023), 313 pp.
Digital Public Goods Platforms for Development: The Challenge of Scaling
Information Society, volume 38, issue 5 (2022), pp. 364-376
"In this article we consider the notion of digital global public good and articulate our understanding of it. Against this conceptual foil, we examine the development of DHIS2 (District Health Information Software Version 2), a global health platform inspired by public goods, focusing on the paradox
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Digital Civil Society: Access OpenTech
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2022), 52 pp.
"Both the challenges to a democratic internet and challenges to internet access make clear that good digital products accessible to us all are not natural byproducts of digitalisation. Instead, they require coordinated proactive and joint efforts by the global community in order to come into being.
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Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2022), xi, 218 pp.
"David Nemer draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork to provide a rich account of how favela residents engage with technology in community technology centers and in their everyday lives. Their stories reveal the structural violence of the information age. But they also show how those oppressed by
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Redes compartidas de Tseltales y Zapotecas: Los caminos hacia un internet pluriversal
Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania (2022), 24 pp.
"Este trabajo de investigación examina el surgimiento de las redes compartidas en comunidades tseltales y zapotecas de Chiapas y Oaxaca (México): la primera milla de señal de internet compartido que articulan la infraestructura de interconexión y los valores de convivencia para extender el inter
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Public Money? Public Code! A Basic Guide to Open Source for Governments and Civil Society
Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Foundation (2022), 25 pp.
"The FNF Global Innovation Hub published in 2022 this guide using easily understandable language and examples of daily scenario that civil servants and the public encounter to help readers to painlessly grasp technical terms such as open source, FLOSS software, and open standard. Also, the Guide exp
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Tseltal and Zapoteco Shared Networks: The Paths Towards a Pluriversal Internet
Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania (2022), 23 pp.
"Fernanda R. Rosa explores the Indigenous networks, principles, and practices of internet infrastructure building and sharing in Tseltal and Zapoteco sovereign territories in Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mexico. More specifically, she uses the concept of shared networks to examine “the first mile signal-sh
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HF rádio: Guia para facilitadores comunitários
Philadelphia: Rhizomatica Communications (2022), 24 pp.
"This article is an outcome of an actionresearch project that gathered community members, farmers, technologists, agroecologists and community network practitioners to make possible a community network in the quilombo of Ribeirão Grande/Terra Seca, located in Barra do Turvo city, São Paulo state,
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In Search of Platform Cooperatives in South Africa
Cape Town: Research ICT Africa (2022), 52 pp.
"This study argues for the diversification of South Africa's digital economy, as it builds a case for the support of platform co-operatives, which are worker-owned and managed social enterprises that contribute to the diversification, decentralisation and democratisation of the digital economy by fo
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HF Radio: Guide for Facilitators and Community Installers
Philadelphia: Rhizomatica Communications (2022), 24 pp.
"The purpose of this guide is to share the basics of installing a solar-powered HF radio station. For some years now, Rhizomatica has been working to “modernize” HF technology, allowing the transmission and reception of digital information. HF technology offers many advantages for autonomous com
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"The digital divide is not a problem the market alone will solve. We need to do things differently. Globally there is a growing movement of community connectivity providers — including community networks, municipal networks, cooperatives, and social enterprises — connecting underserved communiti
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Manual de redes comunitárias
Key Guides
Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2021), 90 pp.
"Este manual reúne informações a partir de experiências concretas de redes comunitárias no Brasil e América Latina para responder a perguntas como: o que são redes comunitárias? Que tipos existem? Como planejar, implementar, instalar e gerir uma rede comunitária? Dessa maneira, esta publica
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