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

Thanks Roger for the nudge

Africa is a tough environment and we continue to fight on. There are
some projects that are showing successes even in this tough
environment like the VillageTelco project in Mankosi (thanks to the
initiative of Steve song and co.) . Wireless User Groups (WUGs)
community built WiFi networks are also fairly popular in many cities
in South Africa. We also used some of our early mesh work to connect
200 rural schools and empower small rural village operators to expand
connectivity from these anchor clients - but its hard to keep this
sustainable when there is little economic activity in the area.

We keep exploring and iterating through different models - hoping more
open access fibre expanding across the country is also going to help
things. TV white space (our current focus) is also going to open up
opportunities to reach low density rural populations for less.

Regards
David

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Roger Baig Viñas <roger.baig@guifi.net> wrote:
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> David,
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> As we have witnessed in guifi.net, sometimes some initiatives/projects
> need some iterations. So please, do not give up. Give it another try,
> maybe this is the one!
>
> And one recommendation. Reuse as much as possible of what's out there
> to be able to focus your efforts in facing the particularities of your
> case.
>
> Best regards
>
> On 11/17/2015 03:32 PM, David Johnson wrote:
>> Well done to all - I feel like you got right what we were trying to
>> do in Wireless Africa back in 2006
>> (http://wirelessafrica.meraka.org.za) - after some inspiration from
>> Frefunk at the time but never quite got there
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Jim Forster <jrforster@mac.com>
>> 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>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks for sharing this Leandro.  Kudos to all involved in
>>> Guifi.net.  So well deserved!
>>>
>>> Cheers... Steve
>>>
>>> On 16 November 2015 at 18:25, Leandro Navarro
>>> <leandro@ac.upc.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> This evening we had the award ceremony in Brussels where the
>>>> guifi.net 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-
> ever-european-broadband-award
>>>>
>>>>
> The video about 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 (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, 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
>>>>
>>>>
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> Roger Baig Viñas
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