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Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Policy
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xi, 244 pp.
"This book examines how Indigenous Peoples around the world are demanding greater data sovereignty, and challenging the ways in which governments have historically used Indigenous data to develop policies and programs. In the digital age, governments are increasingly dependent on data and data analy
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Policy Brief and Recommendations for an Enabling Environment for Community Networks in Brazil
Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2021), 152 pp.
"The policy brief we hereby present to the Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) includes recommendations and specific proposals to enable community networks in Brazil, considering extensive research in both the global and Brazilian context, the state of the art of these small, not-f
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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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Digital Skills Insights
Geneva: ITU (2021), xii, 142 pp.
"The eight articles in the publication can be broadly grouped into two main sets. The first set discusses the different types of digital skills required from a more academic perspective, in particular in the context of the pandemic and post-pandemic period, as countries accelerate their move towards
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Open Source Documentation Guide
#ASKnet; rOg agency for open culture & critical transformation (2020), 2 pp.
"This Open Source Documentation Guide aims to help you understand what you can do to prepare real open source documentation, how you come up with open source solutions, finalised products and overcome challenges in process and methods." (Page 2)
Connected: How a Mexican Village Built its Own Cell Phone Network
Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press (2020), xiii, 259 pp.
"This is the true story of how, against all odds, a remote Mexican pueblo built its own autonomous cell phone network – without help from telecom companies or the government. Anthropologist Roberto J. González paints a vivid and nuanced picture of life in a Oaxaca mountain village and the collect
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"Este manual no pretende en ningún caso ser conclusivo, ni ofrecer recetas para migrar a software libre, quiere ser un espacio que reúne experiencias como coordenadas comunes de la brújula que marca la política tecnológica y de contenido de ALER. Por ello, dejamos abierta la posibilidad de segu
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Exposing the Invisible: The Kit
Berlin: Tactical Tech (2020), 96 pp.
"The Kit is a collaborative, self-learning resource that makes investigative techniques and tools used by experienced investigators more accessible to people and communities who feel motivated to start their own investigations, collect and verify information, build evidence and create a better under
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Peer to Peer: The Commons Manifesto
London: University of Westminster Press (2019), 91 pp.
"As capitalism faces a series of structural crises, a new social, political and economic dynamic is emerging: peer to peer. What is peer to peer (P2P)? Why is it essential for building a commons-centric future? How could this happen? These are the questions we try to answer, by tying together four o
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Community Radio Stations Sustainability Model: An Open-Source Solution
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 17, issue 1 (2019), pp. 29-45
"Community radio stations are important social-inclusion structures, empowering communities through media access and production, reinforcing their ties with the wider civil society. The free and open-source software movement has been established since the 1980s, founded on the freedom to use, to stu
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Indigenous Languages: Zero to Digital. A Guide to Bring Your Language Online
Translation Commons (2019), 24 pp.
"This document describes how to enable mobile and desktop software to support a written language. The recommended implementation allows native speakers to communicate online, share knowledge and documents, and to use software and devices that would otherwise be inaccessible to them. The intended aud
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Telecommunications Reclaimed: A Hands-On Guide to Networking Communities
Key Guides
Internet Society (2019), 255 pp.
"This book is a guide on how to build a community network, a shared local telecommunications infrastructure, managed as a commons, to access the internet and other digital communications services. It was written collectively by a group of community network pioneers in Europe, activists and researche
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Organization After Social Media
New York: Minor Compositions; Autonomedia (2018), 178 pp.
"What can replace the corporate walled gardens such as Facebook and Twitter? Our answer to this question is a firm and open one: a federation of organized networks, sustainable cells that operate as secret societies. Many have already identified social networks as a conspiratorial neoliberal inventi
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"The 43 country reports included in this year’s Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) capture the different experiences and approaches in setting up community networks across the globe. They show that key ideas, such as participatory governance systems, community ownership and skills transfe
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Techio comunitario: Caminos hacia un programa de formación en comunicación indígena
Revista NuestrAmérica, volume 6, issue 12 (2018), pp. 22-35
"A partir de la experiencia de investigación participativa y la construcción de un programa de formación de técnicos comunitarios en México, en este texto se problematizan las características, retos y posibilidades de la comunicación indígena. La invitación que hacemos es a reflexionar sobr
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