Community networks newsletter: What does “meaningful connectivity” mean from community-centred perspectives? – apc.org

In this issue we highlight reports from the latest special edition of Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) focusing on the need of meaningful community-centred connectivity initiatives to bridge the digital divides. In it, we can find an important reflection: when unpacking the term “meaningful” within a community-centred perspective – going beyond technologies– it is important to look at several elements such as cultural practice and political relevance, community processes, gender empowerment, agency and livelihoods. It is through the collective contribution of communities that a community communication activity or digital pathway is designed for their future.
Welcome to the 69th 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 that can be useful in training processes focused on materials made for and by community networks.
In the repository, you can find out more about Techio Comunitario, a training programme for the management of ICT networks, aimed at people from Indigenous and rural communities in Latin America. In addition to providing technical knowledge for the installation, operation and maintenance of communication projects, it seeks to generate a network of people who support each other to strengthen the path towards technological autonomy in their territories.
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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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