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

David Johnson <david.lloyd.johnson@gmail.com> Tue, 17 November 2015 14:32 UTC

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