Re: [gaia] The European Broadband Award 2015 goes to the guifi.net community network

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Hi Jim,

It's a comprehensive ecosystem, thus, not easy, if possible at all, to
explain in few words. Essentially, we are deploying and operating
network infrastructure, including optical fibre, as a commons, where
participants contribute, directly by deploying themselves or indirectly
by funding, the infrastructure they need to extend the existing
infrastructure to their locations. They keep the ownership of the
infrastructure they contributed but, by joining the network the accept
its license, that is to say, they join the Common Pool Resource with its
rights (usage of all existing infrastructure) and duties (let other
participants use the newcomers' infrastructure). Services (like Internet
access) are delivered by ISPs using the existing infrastructure
according to the free market rules (now that we have guaranteed the same
rights of access to the infrastructure to everybody).

Therefore, we are putting in practice an alternative model to the two
traditional ones (private infrastructure and public infrastructure). To
do so it is needed a full stack of tools (including those for which you
- -Jim- are asking for) to ensure scalability, resilience and
sustainability. We tried to outline the basics in the following paper:

Roger Baig, Ramon Roca, Felix Freitag, Leandro Navarro, guifi.net, a
crowdsourced network infrastructure held in common, Computer Networks,
Volume 90, 29 October 2015, Pages 150-165, ISSN 1389-1286,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2015.07.009.
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389128615002327)
Keywords: Community networks; Crowdsourced networks; Self-organised
governance systems; Self-provisioning; Common pool resource

A draft version is available at:

English: http://people.ac.upc.edu/leandro/pubs/crowds-guifi-en.pdf
Castellano: http://people.ac.upc.edu/leandro/pubs/crowds_es_1.pdf

We know it is not enough, but it is what we have so far. Part of our
future work is to better document what we have already done and the
news we introduce.

Kind regards

On 11/17/2015 02:55 PM, Jim Forster wrote:
> Kudos indeed!  A wonderful success story.  I confess to not really 
> understanding the dynamics of planning, conflict resolutions,
> sharing & compensation, etc., but I wish I did!
> 
> Jim
> 
>> On Nov 16, 2015, at 4:16 PM, Steve Song <stevesong@nsrc.org 
>> <mailto:stevesong@nsrc.org>> wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks for sharing this Leandro.  Kudos to all involved in
>> Guifi.net <http://guifi.net>.  So well deserved!
>> 
>> Cheers... Steve
>> 
>> On 16 November 2015 at 18:25, Leandro Navarro
>> <leandro@ac.upc.edu <mailto:leandro@ac.upc.edu>> wrote:
>> 
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> This evening we had the award ceremony in Brussels where the
>> guifi.net 
>> <http://people.ac.upc.edu/leandro/pubs/crowds-guifi-en.pdf>
>> community network got the European Broadband Award from the
>> European Commission for its “innovative model of financing,
>> business and investment”
>> https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/five-projects-got-first-e
ver-european-broadband-award
>
>> 
> The video about guifi.net
>> <http://guifi.net/>: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD3HYeD4Lm4 
>> A paper that describes its socio-economic and governance model:
>> http://people.ac.upc.edu/leandro/pubs/crowds-guifi-en.pdf
>> 
>> If you come to the next GAIA workshop 
>> <http://acmdev.org/gaia.php> (London, Nov 30, colocated with the 
>> ACM-DEV conference) you’ll be able to participate in a
>> world-cafe style discussion on socio-economic or
>> business/sustainability models of infrastructures and services
>> for GAIA. Guifi.net <http://guifi.net/>, among other initiatives,
>> will be there.
>> 
>> I hope to see some of you in our next GAIA workshop, -- Leandro
>> Navarro http://people.ac.upc.edu/leandro http://dsg.ac.upc.edu 
>> <http://dsg.ac.upc.edu/>
>> 
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Roger Baig Viñas
Fundació Privada per a la Xarxa Oberta, Lliure i Neutral guifi.net

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