Re: [gaia] Television

[Rafael Diniz <[e-mail]>]

Hi Sivasubramanian,

I worked with community terrestrial DTV in Argentina, and I see your
idea very interesting, as even with just one terrestrial DTV
transmitter, at least 8 channels can be broadcast using
multi-programming (of course in cable or satellite you can carry much
more channels).

Similarly to using cables, in a tower you can easily put a DTV
transmitter together with LTE or WiFi equipment for a hybrid
broadcast/broadband community network.

Best regards,
Rafael Diniz
Rhizomatica

On 4/2/19 4:03 AM, sivasubramanian muthusamy wrote:
> Dear Michael
> 
> Interesting to find developments related to Telecom services in the
> Community sphere. Wondering if there are technical / business models for
> Community Satellite / Cable TV networks and if it would be feasible for
> small/moderate scale Community Cable networks to subscribe to TV
> channels such as HBO. May not really be a priority service segment, but
> when Telecom services, Cable are "bundled" with Community based Internet
> access, the feasibility is considerably improved. Might also lead to
> solutions such as separation of copyrighted content from open content.
> 
> Sivasubramanian M
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 1, 2019, 4:06 PM Michael J. Oghia <[e-mail]
> <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
> 
>     FYI
> 
> 
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>     From: *Melissa Densmore* <[e-mail]
>     <mailto:[e-mail]>>
>     Date: Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 12:04 PM
>     Subject: [gaia] CFP: Community-Based Telecoms Workshop in Vienna and
>     Cape Town - June 2019
>     To: <[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>>,
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>     <mailto:[e-mail]>>, TIER
>     <[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>>,
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>     InterSol2019 <[e-mail]
>     <mailto:[e-mail]>>, gaia <[e-mail]
>     <mailto:[e-mail]>>
> 
> 
> 
>     *Call for Participation*
> 
>     *Workshop on the Artful Integrations of Infrastructures by
>     Community-Based Telecoms *
> 
>     *3 or 4 June (to be confirmed), 2019*
> 
> 
>     *[summary]*
> 
>     The University of Cape  and OVCOMM Dynamic will be co-hosting a
>     workshop concurrent with the a workshop in Vienna at the C&T
>     conference <https://2019.comtech.community/>. All communities and
>     researchers working on community-based telecoms (e.g. wikipedia
>     deployments, community networks, community radio) are invited to
>     participate and share experiences about how we make things work. If
>     interested, please apply here https://forms.gle/7tdBeG7G4KA6bzGSA or
>     email [e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]> by 20
>     April 2019.
> 
> 
> 
>     *[long version]*
> 
>     This one-day workshop will be hosted both in Vienna and online
>     during The 9th International Conference on Communities and
>     Technologies C&T https://2019.comtech.community/ 3 - 7 June 2019. It
>     focuses on the experiences of communities that own and operate their
>     own telecoms systems, such as local Wi-Fi networks and radio. We
>     will consider what communities do to tackle the infrastructures, or
>     taken-for-granted arrangements, that affect deploying and adopting
>     telecoms. 
> 
> 
>     ICTs involve many infrastructures that arise from and support
>     social, technical, political, legal, administrative, methodological
>     and institutional structures and processes. Infrastructures can be
>     physical (e.g. cables); software (e.g. code); methodological (e.g.
>     standards); organizational (e.g. engineering professions);
>     institutional (e.g. academic structures); and, many more.
>     Communities often devise ways to compensate for constraints and
>     weaknesses of infrastructures in their local telecom projects.
>     Communities have, for instance, tackled policy infrastructures,
>     because laws do not support their telecoms, and integrated their own
>     social infrastructures to align with their community values. 
> 
>     *
>     *
> 
>     *Workshop Activities *
> 
>     We will facilitate conversations between members and users of
>     community-based telecoms, researchers, practitioners and activists.
>     These conversations aim for these different groups to: 
> 
>       * • learn from each other's experiences in responding to
>         infrastructures; 
>       * • recognize the ways infrastructures affect community-based
>         telecoms; 
>       * • identify how community-based telecoms can influence future
>         infrastructures; 
>       * • form relationships to enable ongoing sharing of experiences
>         around infrastructure. 
> 
> 
>     We will use video-conferencing to connect directly to
>     community-based telecoms. A community network in South Africa has
>     already agreed to participate remotely, and we invite other
>     community-based telecoms too (see 2. below). 
> 
>     *
>     *
> 
>     *How to Participate *
> 
>     We invite participation by members and users of community-based
>     telecoms, researchers, practitioners and activists
>     involved/interested in local Wi-Fi or GSM, hyperlocal radio or other
>     local telecoms. To indicate your interest please submit by *April 20
>     2019 *responses to the questions below. 
> 
> 
>     You may respond using the online form
>     https://forms.gle/7tdBeG7G4KA6bzGSA or by emailing your responses
>     to: [e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>: 
> 
>     1. Your details (name, email, project) 
> 
>     2. Your participation – if you will participate in Vienna, Cape
>     Town, or if you propose to host a workshop or participate remotely.
>     If you propose to host a workshop or participate remotely, please
>     use the questions in the form to guide you in providing details
>     about how you will facilitate it. 
> 
>     3. Include a short file, which can be: 
> 
>     • Media about a community-based telecom, e.g. a short text or audio
>     description of an initiative 
> 
>     • Art depicting interactions between existing infrastructures,
>     community-based technologies and future infrastructures 
> 
>     • A 2-page academic-style, position paper about infrastructures
>     revealed by, or created for, community-based telecoms 
> 
>     • Something else that pertains to the workshop topic and is
>     accessible to both practitioners and academics 
> 
> 
>     You will be required to sign into Google in order to upload your
>     document. Please submit up to one file (document, PDF, image, audio,
>     video, zip) of up to 100MB in size. All submissions must be in English. 
> 
>     We will select participants based on how their submissions
>     contribute diverse experiences in ways that are accessible to
>     diverse perspectives. 
> 
> 
>     *Organisers *
> 
>     *Nicola J Bidwell *International University of Management, Namibia 
> 
>     *Melissa Densmore *University of Cape Town, South Africa 
> 
>     *André van Zyl *OVCOMM cooperative, Ocean View, South Africa 
> 
>     *Sarbani Banerjee Belur *Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India 
> 
>     *Nicolás Pace *Association for Progressive Communications and
>     Altermundi, Argentina 
> 
>     *Nic Bidwell *is founding mentor of Groot Aub CN, Namibia, a mentor
>     on Afchix’s gender-sensitive CN project and, in 2018, conducted
>     multiple case-study research on CNs in six countries in the global
>     south. In 2013 she was awarded IFIP’s inaugural award for
>     interaction design for social and economic development for research
>     that was a pre-cursor to Zenzeleni CN. 
> 
>     *Melissa Densmore *is a senior lecturer in UCT’s Centre in ICT4D,
>     South Africa. Her research explores community-based digital content
>     creation for CNs, and has previously included studying telecoms
>     adoption in an NGO in Uganda, and wireless infrastructure
>     deployments in Ghana, India, and DR Congo. 
> 
>     *Sarbani Banerjee Belur *is a senior researcher on Gram Marg’s rural
>     broadband project, India, winner of Mozilla’s Equal Rating
>     Innovation Challenge. Since 2015 she has facilitated connectivity to
>     remote villages. Her research focuses on gendered use of
>     connectivity and seeding CNs in Indian villages. 
> 
>     *Andrè van Zyl *is a Computer/IT Teacher at Ocean View Secondary
>     School, and a Director of the OVCOMM cooperative that administers a
>     community network in Ocean View, a town-ship in Cape Town, South
>     Africa. 
> 
>     *Nicolás Pace *is the Movement Building Coordinator for the
>     Association for Progressive Communication’s Local Access Networks
>     initiative. He supports CNs around the world, is part of AlterMundi,
>     that develops models and technologies for CNs, and REDES AC, that
>     supports CNs in Indigenous Mexico. 
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