Routing for communities

We’re back! And this is the fourth and final episode of the second season of the Routing for Communities podcast . The regions where community networks are built have many differences between them. But there is one commonality: lack of interest from large telecommunications companies in providing affordable connectivity , or any connectivity at all. Populations that are often already marginalised...

On the air: The third episode of the new season of the Routing for Communities podcast ! Community-centred connectivity initiatives are complementary to the internet access offered by commercial providers and state-sponsored public networks. They help to diversify internet access markets, offering affordable and locally relevant content and service alternatives for communities.  We believe the soc...

While women continue to make essential contributions to the development of community-centred connectivity initiatives worldwide, they still face challenges that echo structural power imbalances and historical inequalities.  Digital technologies and decision-making processes are typically designed by men, with no gender-responsive lens. As an extension of the society in which they are embedded, the...

We’re back! The premiere of the second season of the Routing for Communities podcast is on the air! In our first season, you listened to life stories of those who create innovative, community-led projects that connect the one-third of humankind that is still living offline. Throughout the 12 episodes, we talked to more than 20 people from 15 countries . The topic provided us with a lot of content,...

We’re back! The second season of the Routing for Communities podcast will arrive soon with 4 new episodes! In our first season, you listened to life stories of those who create innovative, community-led projects that connect the one-third of humankind that is still living offline. Throughout the 12 episodes, we talked to more than 20 people from 15 countries. The topic provided us with a lot of co...

En este nuevo episodio del podcast, escucharás a las personas que participaron en la fiesta radial Tz’ikin, celebrada en abril de 2024, en ciudad de Guatemala, como parte del programa de formación de gestores de redes de tecnologías de la información y comunicación en comunidades indígenas y rurales de América Latina 2023-2024. Este programa híbrido incluye formación online y un bootcamp que contó...

En el décimo episodio de esta temporada, conocerás más sobre otra historia de América Latina. Estamos hablando de la experiencia de una comunidad indígena en una región rural de Colombia , donde opera la Red Comunitaria Jxa'h Wejxia Casil . Para contarte más sobre esta historia, hablamos con Edinson Camayo , miembro de la Nación Indígena Nasa y coordinador del proyecto. También viajarás con no...

Bem-vindes ao Brasil e ao nosso primeiro conteúdo em português! Este é o sétimo episódio do podcast, que está disponível em 12 episódios em inglês. Nesta edição, compartilhamos uma história de São Paulo, a maior cidade em população do Brasil e da América do Sul. Conversamos com a Daiane Araújo , que conta a experiência da “Casa dos Meninos”. Esta é uma iniciativa que trabalha tecnologias de inform...

La primera temporada de nuestro podcast tiene 12 episodios que están disponibles en inglés. Algunos episodios sobre experiencias latinoamericanas, como este, están disponibles también  en español o português. Hoy viajaremos a una zona rural de Córdoba, en Argentina, donde conoceremos la iniciativa Quintana Libre, una red comunitaria en la localidad de José de la Quintana, desarrollada con la comun...

Bienvenidos/as a nuestro primer episodio en español. Acompáñanos en un viaje para conocer “Wiki Katat”, el primer operador virtual indígena que brinda servicios de internet y telefonía móvil en México. En este episodio conocerás a Flor Lino , quien forma parte de Wiki Katat y de una radio comunitaria indígena del país. También conocerás a Lilian Chamorro , quien trabaja en varias organizaciones vi...

We’ve reached the last episode of our season together. And the story in it will inspire you, while showing how community networks are essential and possible when different people get involved. For that, we’ll travel to Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, to meet James Nguo from the Arid Lands Information Network (ALIN), which works especially with the country’s rural population. This initiative shows h...

The story you’ll hear in the 11th episode of our season takes place in Thailand. We are going to learn about Professor Kanchaná Kanchanásut’s pioneering venture, which took the internet to this Southeast Asian country. Nowadays, she is in charge of TakNet, Thailand’s first community network, which connects around 500 homes in 30 communities to broadband. Still in Asia, this time in the Philippines...

For this season’s 10th episode, you will get to know more about another story from Latin America. We’re talking about an experience in the countryside of Colombia, in an Indigenous community, where the Jxa'h Wejxia Casil Community Network is operating. To tell you more about this story, we talked to Edinson Camayo. He is a member of the Nasa Indigenous Nation and the project’s coordinator. You...

In our ninth episode, you’ll get to know an initiative that has already connected over 7,000 homes in England’s northwestern rural areas to the internet: the Broadband for the Rural North project, more commonly known as B4RN. To tell us this story, we interviewed Chris Conder, one of B4RN’s founders who was once recognised by Queen Elizabeth II for her work in taking internet connection to rural c...

In our eighth episode, we will travel to the African continent once again! In Nigeria, we will meet Harira Wakili and the Center for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) – a non-profit organisation promoting democracy and citizenship through information and communications technologies. We will learn more about their work on community networks and gender issues. We will also hear from Jos...

Welcome to Brazil! In the seventh episode of our season, we share a story from São Paulo, the largest city by population in the country and South America. We talked to Daiane Araújo and learned more about her experience at “Casa dos Meninos”, an initiative working on information and communication technologies with the youth on the city outskirts. She works on community networks projects and reflec...

Let's go to Indonesia together to meet the Common Room Networks Foundation and its co-founder Gustaff Iskandar. This is a project that works with art, culture, communication and new technologies. Gustaff helped build the community network in Ciptagelar Traditional Village, in West Java. According to him, there are around 12,000 villages that are still disconnected in Indonesia, and not only fr...

In this episode you will travel to a rural area in Córdoba, Argentina. There we will get to know the Quintana Libre initiative. It’s a community network in the township of José de la Quintana, which was developed with the local community by an organisation called AlterMundi. For this story, we talked to Jessica Giudice, a Quintana Libre member and AlterMundi co-founder. Also in this episode, we ta...

In this episode you will get to know the Amadiba Community Network, a project that has been strengthening the community's fight to defend their land, the coast of their country and their people, through access to the internet. Guiding us on this journey is Lungelo Mtwa, from Pondoland, a region on the coast of South Africa bathed by the Indian Ocean. Also in this episode, we interviewed Mike J...

Come with us on a journey to meet the “Wiki Katat”, the first indigenous virtual operator providing internet and mobile phone services in Mexico. In this episode, you will get to know Flor Lino, who is part of the Wiki Katat and also of a community indigenous radio station in the country. You will also meet Lilian Chamorro, who works in many organisations linked to the topic of community networks...

Our second episode takes us on a trip to Kenya to visit TunapandaNET, an initiative that combines digital networks with community-led action to enable communication, education and health in Kibera, the biggest slum in Africa. In order to tell you this story, our team has talked to Risper Akinyi Arose, who works in many projects of digital inclusion and communication there. We also talked to Peter...

Come with us on a journey to meet community-led experiences that have come up with solutions to overcome the challenges of digital inclusion in remote, rural, and urban areas across the globe. In this first episode, we will tell you about an experience straight from South Africa: the Mamaila Community Network, which is connecting a rural area that had been ignored by major communications providers...

This twelve-episode season podcast is a journey to meet community-led experiences that have come up with solutions to overcome the challenges of digital inclusion in remote, rural, and urban areas across the globe. Here you are going to meet life stories of those who build innovative and bold community-led projects to connect the third of human kind that is still living offline, and you´ll learn m...