Re: [gaia] Gigabit/fibre networks, worth documenting/comparing experiences and lessons beyond the usual (market)

Hi,

My 2c is that case studies is the right term.

As Steve pointed out, case studies are meant to explain the wider
context of an instance, or a case, such as policies, economics, etc and
to study the instance as a contained whole.

Being able to draw conclusions from a collection of case studies is
harder, but perhaps a classification spreadsheet would help cluster them.

-Mallory

On 18/09/18 11:37, Jane Coffin wrote:
> Thank you, Arjuna.
> 
>  
> 
> Do folks have an alternate name for “case-study” so that we can agree on
> what data tools we want to use for the outline that Leandro is working
> on (and that we’ll help him hack)?
> 
>  
> 
> Part of our objective is to provide concrete examples where changes are
> being made to business models for connectivity, funding for same, and
> where regulators/policy-makers are changing the game by
> creating/removing barriers for new access models.
> 
> 
> We are seeing changes around the world to accommodate change as some of
> the old biz models are not providing connectivity (ROI not made and
> licensing conditions not met) or affordable connectivity to rural,
> remote, and underserved areas. 
> 
>  
> 
> Best,
> 
> Jane
> 
>  
> 
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> 
> *From: *gaia <gaia-bounces@irtf.org> on behalf of Arjuna Sathiaseelan
> <arjuna.sathiaseelan@cl.cam.ac.uk>
> *Date: *Tuesday, September 18, 2018 at 10:22 AM
> *To: *Leandro Navarro <leandro@ac.upc.edu>
> *Cc: *"gaia@irtf.org" <gaia@irtf.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [gaia] Gigabit/fibre networks, worth
> documenting/comparing experiences and lessons beyond the usual (market)
> 
>  
> 
> Leandro, all,
> 
>  
> 
> another excellent resource:
> http://www.itforchange.net/resources_communitybroadband_
> 
>  
> 
> regards
> 
>  
> 
> On 8 September 2018 at 20:27, Leandro Navarro <leandro@ac.upc.edu
> <mailto:leandro@ac.upc.edu>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi everyone, 
> 
>      
> 
>     In the recent days I’ve seen several initiatives around fibre access
>     infrastructure, 
> 
>      
> 
>     * Some coming from rural communities such as:
> 
>      - this nice video documentary from a community effort in
>     Scotland: https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index..php/2018/09/video-documentary-looks-at-balquhidder-community-ftth-build-in-scotland.html
>     <https://www.ispreview..co.uk/index.php/2018/09/video-documentary-looks-at-balquhidder-community-ftth-build-in-scotland.html>
> 
> 
>      - The well know B4RN community
>     operator: https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2018/03/b4rn-helping-expand-1gbps-ftth-broadband-rural-cheshire.html 
> 
>      - Several other optical networks:
>     https://ec.europa..eu/digital-single-market/en/news/five-projects-got-first-ever-european-broadband-award
>     <https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/five-projects-got-first-ever-european-broadband-award>
> 
>      - Including guifi.net
>     <http://guifi.net>: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD3HYeD4Lm4
> 
>      - First nations such as http://knet.ca/ among
>     others: https://www.internetsociety.org/events/indigenous-connectivity-summit/2017/presentations/
>     and related aspects of electricity, water, economic development and
>     employment, etc.
> 
>      
> 
>     * Traditional or new telcos such as https://www.gigaclear.com/ etc.
> 
>      
> 
>     * Other players such as google fibre: https://fiber.googleblog.com/
>     In this article they discuss about lessons learned
>     https://hbr.org/2018/09/why-google-fiber-is-high-speed-internets-most-successful-failure
>     <https://hbr..org/2018/09/why-google-fiber-is-high-speed-internets-most-successful-failure>
> 
>      
> 
>     The list is endless.
> 
>      
> 
>     All seem successful in different ways, with different lessons
>     learned about scale, local investment, infrastructure sharing like
>     ducts and poles, cost reduction from the involvement of volunteers,
>     involvement of content and service providers (googlefiber), etc. In
>     the netcommons.eu <http://netcommons.eu> project we have looked at
>     different business and organisational models for community networks
>     specifically, but there are other successful models that have
>     socio-economic impact.
> 
>      
> 
>     *Would you find useful to compile a GAIA/IRTF document about good
>     practices, lessons learned, to build high-speed/fibre/gigabit
>     network infrastructures in challenging environments? which means
>     beyond the last frontier of rural, remote, underdeveloped,
>     underserved areas.*
> 
>      
> 
>     By the way, there is this upcoming related
>     event: https://www.internetsociety.org/events/indigenous-connectivity-summit/2018/
> 
>     The report from the previous edition is a recommended
>     read: https://www.internetsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2018-01-04_ICS-Report-final.pdf
> 
>      
> 
>     Cheers, 
> 
>     --
>     Leandro Navarro
>     http://people.ac.upc.edu/leandro http://dsg.ac.upc.edu
> 
>      
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