Maarit Palovirta was the Senior Manager, Regional Affairs Europe, from November 2013 through February 2019.
Image credit: © Jordi Ruiz Cirera/Panos
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Community Networks
11 December 2018
Tusheti Community Network One Year Later: Creating Impact, Sustainability, and Scalability
Connecting the most remote and challenging territories of any country to the Internet can be tough. Typically, Internet access...
Community Networks
31 October 2018
Digital Development Is the Way Forward: The Suusamyr Community Network Launches at CNX
Asylbek Sanarbekov, a social worker in the village of Suusamyr, Kyrgyzstan, can often be seen standing outside of his...
Community Networks
19 September 2018
Learning by Doing: Have You Heard of the Suusamyr Community Network in Kyrgyzstan?
Last week, the Internet Society together with our Kyrgyz chapter and the wider local community held discussions about Internet...
Community Networks
3 July 2018
Meeting Europe’s Connectivity Challenge: The Role for Community Networks
While Europe tops many charts in terms of Internet connectivity in global comparison, a number of challenges still persist....
Internet Governance
15 June 2018
EuroDIG 2018 Gathers the Internet Community: What’s New
The 12th edition of the European Dialogue on Internet Governance or the EuroDIG, as it is commonly known, took place...
Internet Governance
4 May 2018
European Agenda on Digital for Development: Can the Multistakeholder Approach Help?
The year 2017 was an important milestone in moving forward the European agenda for Digital for Development (D4D). The...