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Community networks recognition: Local Networks initiative and projects from Tosepan and IBEBrasil nominated for the WSIS Prizes 2021

17 March 2021 The Local Networks (LocNet) initiative and two projects from its peers – Tosepan (Mexico) and IBEBrasil (Brazil) – are among the nominees for this year’s World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Prizes, a contest developed to evaluate activities that leverage the power of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to advance sustainable development.  Led by APC in partnership with Rhizomatica, LocNet aims to directly support the work of community networks and contribute to an enabling ecosystem for the emergence and growth of community-based connectivity activities in developing countries. The nomination is a recognition of community networks as an important and viable alternative for promoting the rights to access and communications, and for supporting sustainable development. 

Landmark ruling in Mexico allows communities to provide service in areas that the telecoms market does not reach

For years, Telecomunicaciones Indígenas Comunitarias A.C. (TIC AC), Mexico s fourth largest cell phone operator, has been fighting to provide telecommunications services to the most disadvantaged people in Mexico, specifically the 18 Indigenous communities that form part of it. Now TIC AC, backed by Rhizomatica and Redes por la Diversidad, Equidad y Sustentabilidad A.C., organisations that help communities build and manage their own low-cost, open-source communications infrastructure, is celebrating a historic victory: exemption from paying fees for the use of radio spectrum. Since 2016, when they won their first radio spectrum concession, these non-profit organisations have faced various obstacles as well as discrimination. Had it not been for the tenacity they have shown in court, the process would not have resulted in this victory, says Carlos Rey-Moreno, local access policy and regulation coordinator for APC’s community networks project. There were moments that seemed insu

APC, Rhizomatica and 48percent org join efforts to support community network responses to COVID-19 | Association for Progressive Communications

APC, Rhizomatica and 48percent org join efforts to support community network responses to COVID-19 | Association for Progressive Communications
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