Many digital divides persist today, to the point that a third of the world’s population is still offline. In this issue, we highlight a new video from the Local Networks initiative showing how a growing number of communities are taking action to overcome these divides, while defending their fundamental rights and well-being. We also gather updates from different training activities promoting technological appropriation by community members, so that the use of the connectivity can meet people’s expressed needs and dreams.
Welcome to the 71st 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 a space in the repository dedicated to sharing experiences and resources from five National Schools of Community Networks, in which capacity building was the entry point to cultivate community networks and bottom-up meaningful connectivity.
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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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