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

Jim Forster <jrforster@mac.com> Tue, 17 November 2015 13:55 UTC

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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 <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-ever-european-broadband-award <https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/five-projects-got-first-ever-european-broadband-award>
> The video about guifi.net <http://guifi.net/>: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD3HYeD4Lm4 <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 <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
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