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

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
> <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
> 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 <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
>
>
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