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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New Guide to Federal Broadband Funding Opportunities in the U.S.
New resource will help communities find the right funding for their networks At the 2020 Indigenous Connectivity Summit (ICS), participants asked the Internet Society to create a "centralized database that ...
Libraries Are Bridging the Digital Divide
Libraries and Community Networks are teaming up and discovering new ways to connect the unconnected When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020, libraries across the world shut down their ...
The image was shared around the world. Two little girls hunched over their laptops on a concrete sidewalk, accessing the free WiFi at a fast-food restaurant in order to complete ...
Indigenous Communities Must Have Internet Access on Their Own Terms
A shorter version of this article was first published in the Toronto Star. With the recent launch of the Universal Broadband Fund, or UBF, the federal government has committed to ...
A Look Back at 2020: How Community Networks Helped People Connect during COVID-19
, helping to close the global digital divide one community at a time. At the Internet Society, we believe so much in this vision, we made ambitious goals for 2020 ...
Reimagining the Africa Community Networks Summit during the COVID-19 Pandemic
At the Virtual Summit on Community Networks in Africa over 200 local connectivity network operators learn better ways to bring affordable and reliable connectivity to underserved communities. Every year since ...
Going Virtual with Community Networks Voices in the Asia-Pacific: CNX APAC 2020
Each community network deployment has its own characteristics – ranging from the physical terrain to environmental conditions to local and cultural contexts. Having been involved in some 150 deployments, I ...
Connecting Indigenous Communities: An Urgent Call for Inclusivity, Ownership, and Affordability
In October, we held the 2020 edition of Indigenous Connectivity Summit (ICS). Over the last four years, this summit has become a hallmark event for Indigenous network operators, leaders, community ...
