Catalonia: Guifi.net, scaling up a community network

Citizen-driven access initiatives such as community networks are often considered as the last and least “serious” option to bring connectivity to regions or sectors of the population unattended by the “serious” options – that is, private sector and publicly funded deployments (which in many cases ar...

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Autores: Baig Viñas, Roger|||0000-0001-9813-7678, Navarro Moldes, Leandro|||0000-0003-4775-5526, Roca Tió, Ramon, Freitag, Fèlix|||0000-0001-5438-479X
Tipo de recurso: capítulo de libro
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/416533
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/416533
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Community networks
Connectivity
guifi.net
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Telemàtica i xarxes d'ordinadors
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spelling Catalonia: Guifi.net, scaling up a community networkBaig Viñas, Roger|||0000-0001-9813-7678Navarro Moldes, Leandro|||0000-0003-4775-5526Roca Tió, RamonFreitag, Fèlix|||0000-0001-5438-479XCommunity networksConnectivityguifi.netÀrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Telemàtica i xarxes d'ordinadorsCitizen-driven access initiatives such as community networks are often considered as the last and least “serious” option to bring connectivity to regions or sectors of the population unattended by the “serious” options – that is, private sector and publicly funded deployments (which in many cases are carried out by the same companies doing the market-driven deployments). guifi.net is a community network with tens of thousands of working nodes, and hundreds of volunteers, professionals and public administrations involved. It proves that community networks not only can deliver “serious” services to unattended areas (e.g. fibre to rural areas), but that this can be done in a very efficient way, converting almost all investment in deployment into profitable deployments, socially and economically. This in turn refutes another globally accepted assumption imposed by “the establishment”: that some regions as well as some sectors of the population will always need to be subsidised.Association for Progressive Communications (APC)20182018-01-0120242024-10-24book parthttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_3248VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPartapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2117/416533reponame:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPCinstname:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/4165332026-05-27T15:37:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Catalonia: Guifi.net, scaling up a community network
title Catalonia: Guifi.net, scaling up a community network
spellingShingle Catalonia: Guifi.net, scaling up a community network
Baig Viñas, Roger|||0000-0001-9813-7678
Community networks
Connectivity
guifi.net
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Telemàtica i xarxes d'ordinadors
title_short Catalonia: Guifi.net, scaling up a community network
title_full Catalonia: Guifi.net, scaling up a community network
title_fullStr Catalonia: Guifi.net, scaling up a community network
title_full_unstemmed Catalonia: Guifi.net, scaling up a community network
title_sort Catalonia: Guifi.net, scaling up a community network
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Baig Viñas, Roger|||0000-0001-9813-7678
Navarro Moldes, Leandro|||0000-0003-4775-5526
Roca Tió, Ramon
Freitag, Fèlix|||0000-0001-5438-479X
author Baig Viñas, Roger|||0000-0001-9813-7678
author_facet Baig Viñas, Roger|||0000-0001-9813-7678
Navarro Moldes, Leandro|||0000-0003-4775-5526
Roca Tió, Ramon
Freitag, Fèlix|||0000-0001-5438-479X
author_role author
author2 Navarro Moldes, Leandro|||0000-0003-4775-5526
Roca Tió, Ramon
Freitag, Fèlix|||0000-0001-5438-479X
author2_role author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Community networks
Connectivity
guifi.net
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Telemàtica i xarxes d'ordinadors
topic Community networks
Connectivity
guifi.net
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Telemàtica i xarxes d'ordinadors
description Citizen-driven access initiatives such as community networks are often considered as the last and least “serious” option to bring connectivity to regions or sectors of the population unattended by the “serious” options – that is, private sector and publicly funded deployments (which in many cases are carried out by the same companies doing the market-driven deployments). guifi.net is a community network with tens of thousands of working nodes, and hundreds of volunteers, professionals and public administrations involved. It proves that community networks not only can deliver “serious” services to unattended areas (e.g. fibre to rural areas), but that this can be done in a very efficient way, converting almost all investment in deployment into profitable deployments, socially and economically. This in turn refutes another globally accepted assumption imposed by “the establishment”: that some regions as well as some sectors of the population will always need to be subsidised.
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