In this issue, we highlight stories of connectivity centred on local communities that have occupied land for centuries without provoking the socio-environmental destruction of their regions. From Nigeria, South Africa to the Amazon region of Latin America, their experiences offer us a reflection on the need and possibilities for creating models of connectivity and digital technologies that sustain life on the planet rather than harming it.
Welcome to the 70th monthly round-up of developments impacting your local access networks and community-based initiatives.
This repository is a collective online space to store and exchange resources from multiple sources and authors that can be useful in training processes focused on materials made for and by community networks.
In this issue, we would like to highlight the official 2023 outcome of the Internet Governance Forum Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity (DC3), focusing on community networks and on how to build digital sovereignty and environmental sustainability.
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This newsletter is part of the Local Networks (LocNet) initiative, an initiative led by APC in partnership with Rhizomatica that aims to directly support the work of community networks and to contribute to an enabling ecosystem for the emergence and growth of community networks and other community-based connectivity activities in Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean. You can read more about the initiative here, here, and here.
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