Subject: [gaia] A short report about IGF2016 and Community Networking

From: Leandro Navarro <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2016 23:27:35 +0100

Dear all, 

The Internet Governance Forum 2016 was this year in Guadalajara, Mexico, on December 5-9 2016. There were so many events related to the aims of GAIA … 

Community Networks have emerged at IGF as "the other" way to develop connectivity. Terms such as empowering the unconnected, connecting the unconnected, connecting the next billion(s) floated around. The discussion was on many aspects such as policy, regulation, human rights, economics, sustainability, governance, participation, infrastructure, access, technology, software, spectrum.

I’ve prepared a quick report in a short time, before I forget, with lots of pointers to what was discussed as it relates to the universalisation of connectivity and particularly to Community Networking, with links to the relevant documents, transcripts and videos of the sessions. I’m not trying to be exhaustive or detailed, but just share a rough guiding document to some of the things that appeared there, as it may help you to frame and understand the following steps.

In gratitude to all who made this possible and shared the intense and enjoyable week in Guadalajara, Leandro.

http://people.ac.upc.edu/leandro/docs/igf2016.pdf <http://people.ac.upc.edu/leandro/docs/igf2016.pdf>
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Leandro Navarro
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