The Importance of Strong Technical Communities and Partnerships in Africa
The recent outage in West Africa caused by submarine cable damage could have been a lot worse. A strong community ensured it wasn’t.
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How Do We Connect Everyone to the Internet? An IETF 101 Technical Plenary
How do we connect everyone, everywhere, to the Internet? What role do "community networks" play in helping connect more people? How can we best use wireless spectrum and what are ...
Community Networks in Mexico: For Ourselves, With Our Own Resources
Working with the Internet Society and the the Internet Society Mexico Chapter, REDES AC and several organizations partnered in 2018 to deploy community networks in four Indigenous communities: Ayuujk, Zapotec, ...
Raúl Echeberría at Mobile World Congress Ministerial
The Internet Society’s Vice President of Global Engagement Raúl Echeberría will be participating in a panel tomorrow at the Mobile World Congress Ministerial Programme on Policies to Expand Access to ...
Indigenous Connectivity Summit Participants Share Their Stories
Madeleine Redfern, the mayor of Iqaluit – the largest and only city in Nunavut, Canada – has a colorful way of describing how sparsely populated the territory is. "The seals ...
Building a Sustainable Community Network in Sarantaporo Greece
For over a year now we in the Sarantaporo.gr Non Profit Organization have been in contact with Internet Society in meetings, over online interactions, and through in-person collaboration with people ...
Let’s Make the Internet a Safer Place for Everyone
Ash Ball, a young person in Australia, is working to end cyberbullying as part of the Project Rockit team. Ball, one of the Internet Society’s 25 Under 25 awardees, says ...
Community Report: Indigenous Connectivity
The 2017 Indigenous Connectivity Summit (ICS) was the start of a critical conversation about how Indigenous communities can connect themselves to the Internet on their own terms. But it was ...
From Zero to One Hundred in the Arctic Slope
In November 2017, the Internet Society hosted the inaugural Indigenous Connectivity Summit in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The event brought together community network operators, Internet service providers, community members, researchers, policy ...
