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The US Makes a Big Step Toward Better Routing Security

The US Department of Commerce began implementing better routing security practices—a step in the right direction for wider MANRS adoption.

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Five Key Takeaways from the Summit in Asia-Pacific on Deploying, Sustaining, and Scaling Community Networks
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Five Key Takeaways from the Summit in Asia-Pacific on Deploying, Sustaining, and Scaling Community Networks

Community networks (CNs) offer a solution to connect the unconnected billions. They are becoming all the more important as recent trends reveal a slowdown in Internet connectivity growth through national ...
‘These Are Our First Roadways’: Internet Access and Self-Determination in Pu'uhonua O Waimanalo
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‘These Are Our First Roadways’: Internet Access and Self-Determination in Pu’uhonua O Waimanalo

The establishment of Pu‘uhonua o Waimānalo in 1994 was a significant milestone in the native Hawaiian movement to regain independence from the United States, which overthrew its kingdom in 1893 ...
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In Colombia: Latin American Summit on Community Networks

The University of Cundinamarca will host the Second Latin American Summit of Community Networks September 24-28. The event is organized by the Community Networks Special Interest Group, the Fusa Libre ...
2019 Chapterthon - Our Chapters, Connecting the World One Community at a Time
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2019 Chapterthon – Our Chapters, Connecting the World One Community at a Time

Each year, the Chapterthon project competition brings enthusiasm and excitement among our global community. We look forward to this time of year, when our communities mobilize and work alongside each ...
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Beyond the Palm Trees: Local Action Key to Fast, Affordable and Reliable Internet Solutions in Rural Hawai’i

To many North Americans, Hawai’i is a place of beaches, resorts, surfing, rainforests, and volcanoes — it’s a vacation destination. But despite its tourism infrastructure and economy, Native Hawaiian communities ...
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The Case for Complementary Local Access Networks by the Community, for the Community

Back in 2010, I conceptualised and started a pilot project to see how we could introduce Internet connectivity to unserved and underserved rural areas. The ICT4D community - along with ...
Ulukhaktok: Community Networking in the (Far) North
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Ulukhaktok: Community Networking in the (Far) North

In June of this year, I had the great privilege of traveling to Ulukhaktok, NWT, Canada to talk to community members about the possibility of building a new, local Internet ...
Save the Date: 4th Summit on Community Networks in Africa
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Save the Date: 4th Summit on Community Networks in Africa


. The Summit hopes to promote the creation and growth of CNs, increase collaboration between CN operators in the region, and provide an opportunity for them to engage with ...