Digital inclusion

Beyond Connectivity: Networks of Care
Beyond Connectivity: Networks of Care 04 June 2020 APC and Rhizomatica

What happens to communities in rural and underserved urban areas lacking access to the internet? What happens to those without access to machines and devices or whose lives do not fit into a digital model of e-learning and e-commerce?

Community Networks and Local Access Monthly Newsletter - Number 25
Community Networks and Local Access Monthly Newsletter - Number 25 28 May 2020

Welcome to the 25th monthly round-up of developments impacting your local access networks.

Community Networks Stories: "Pink... the colour of my internet"
Community Networks Stories: "Pink... the colour of my internet" 28 May 2020 Anjali Vajre for Gram Marg Rural Broadband

Anjali Vajre shares a personal account of how the connectivity enabled by the Gram Marg Rural Broadband project has changed her life and how she would like to use the skills she has gained to empower other women in her village.

Rising Voices: Tweets about digital rights and African languages
Rising Voices: Tweets about digital rights and African languages 27 May 2020 Rising Voices

This five-week social media campaign invited five language digital activists from across Africa to focus on a particular digital rights issue in order to explore some considerations and implications for the use of African languages online.

Protocol for Accompanying Community Network Deployments in Social Isolation Scenarios
Protocol for Accompanying Community Network Deployments in Social Isolation Scenarios 26 May 2020 AlterMundi

In the current scenario of social isolation, the network deployment work stages have been adapted through this specific protocol that guarantees the recommendations for social distancing and prevention of COVID-19.

Community Networks Stories: On the road to building internet access for all, why not take our children with us?
Community Networks Stories: On the road to building internet access for all, why not take our children with us? 26 May 2020 AlterMundi

For some time now, AlterMundi has been looking for ways to include children in their activities, both because of family dynamics and also because of how enjoyable it can be to share these experiences with children and the collective growth that can come out of them.

Community Networks Stories: Building access to digital learning in Malawi, where connectivity is usually "only accessible to a few elites"
Community Networks Stories: Building access to digital learning in Malawi, where connectivity is usually "only accessible to a few elites" 21 May 2020

The Centre for Youth and Development (CYD) is working with the community of Mzuzu, in northern Malawi, to build a low-cost wireless wide area network architecture for providing access to local digital resources and services and later to the internet.

CIPESA: Uganda’s social media tax undermining COVID-19 fight
CIPESA: Uganda’s social media tax undermining COVID-19 fight 19 May 2020 Juliet Nanfuka for CIPESA

In Uganda, social media is one of the avenues for disseminating information on COVID-19 to citizens. however, the effectiveness has been undermined by the social media tax, which requires telecom subscribers to pay a daily subscription in order to access popular social media platforms.

Community Networks Stories: Creating songs with children in an Indonesian indigenous village
Community Networks Stories: Creating songs with children in an Indonesian indigenous village 18 May 2020 Common Room

As part of the digital storytelling workshops held with residents of Kampung Kasepuhan Ciptagelar, Indonesia, Common Room also facilitated music and songwriting workshops with the local children. to improve their ability to express themselves through music in a simple way.

Community-led Connectivity: Assessing the potential of community network models in the context of forced displacement in East Africa
Community-led Connectivity: Assessing the potential of community network models in the context of forced displacement in East Africa 15 May 2020 Association for Progressive Communications (APC)

This report aims to further examine frameworks for extending access to connectivity out to refugees and their hosting communities, by exploring the potential of community-based approaches to provision of connectivity services.

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