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

[Leandro Navarro <[e-mail]>]

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: 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, among other initiatives, will be there.

I hope to see some of you in our next GAIA workshop, 
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Leandro Navarro
http://people.ac.upc.edu/leandro	 http://dsg.ac.upc.edu