[Chapter-delegates] Community Forum on Community Networking ; ) 28 June 2016 @ 1300 UTC on Zoom

Wed Jun 22 14:10:57 PDT 2016

Hi Abdeldjalil and all Chapter colleagues!

Help us get the word out and Join us!!

Next week – Tuesday 28 June @1300 UTC for an event that also will look at key issues related to access – where amazing people/champions are helping create community networks, providing connectivity and local solutions.

Community Networking
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Tuesday, June 28, 2016, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM (UTC) Coordinated Universal Time
Español abajo<https://connect.internetsociety.org/events/event-description?CalendarEventKey=d964b36a-bd0a-4507-a50c-45c51b8c9753&EventTypeKey=&Home=/events/calendar#Spanish> | Français en dessous<https://connect.internetsociety.org/events/event-description?CalendarEventKey=d964b36a-bd0a-4507-a50c-45c51b8c9753&EventTypeKey=&Home=/events/calendar#French>
The Internet Society is organizing a special live event focused on ‘Community Networking’. These are projects that bring Internet connectivity to communities previously isolated from the digital revolution.
Be it high into the Himalayas, deep into the country side of India or the hills of Mexico, we will hear from people are taking the Internet to places where a cell phone connection can help save lives, educate children or connect loved ones.
Join us on June 28 at 1pm UTC for a discussion about Community Networking projects:
To join the event, please save this link: https://isoc.zoom.us/j/687870801 (only active during the conference)
 Links for simultaneous translations and captioning (only active during the conference):
- Traduccuión en vivo para Español<https://secure.livestream.com/translateyourworld>
- Traductions simultanées en Français<https://secure.livestream.com/translateyourworldChannel2>
- English captions<https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=ISOC>

  1.  Rajnesh Singh, ISOC Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau Director:High-level overview of ISOC’s Wireless for Communities Project (W4C)<http://wforc.in/> in APAC that has been running since 2010, and the impact he is seeing through in the communities we work in with our partners.
  2.  Osama Manzar, Director/Founder, Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF)<http://defindia.org/>, ISOC has forged a partnership with DEF to support their W4C efforts.Through our partnership with DEF over 13 Indian villages in rural India have been connected, micro-enterprises have been started, health centres and schools brought online, and the community trained to build and roll-out community networks.
  3.  Mahabir Pun, Nepal Wireless Networking Project<http://www.nepalwireless.net/> an ISOC Hall of Fame awardee, Mr. Pun's work provides connectivity to villages in Nepal through community wireless projects. He also has assisted ISOC’s APAC team by training trainers for our W4C efforts in the region. In late 2015 his team helped expand the W4C project to Nepal by connecting 8 villages in earthquake-affected areas.
  4.  Roger Baig Vinas, Guifi.net<https://guifi.net/> project and ISOC Catalan Chapter member:Guifi.net is an award winning Commons-based wireless for community project in Catalonia, Spain. Members from Guifi.net are part of the ISOC Catalan chapter, and a key part of the technical training and network development team.
  5.  Mike Jensen, Association for Progressive Communications (APC), is an active supporter of community based networks and innovative radio spectrum use. He has worked to raise awareness of the potential for TV White Space technology in reaching the unconnected, and operates a mesh-wifi network for his neighbours.
  6.  Peter Bloom, Rhizomatica<https://rhizomatica.org/>, Peter Bloom founded Rhizomatica in 2009 to address a need to transfer photos and videos between human rights defenders in Nigeria without passing through the networks of large telecommunication companies. Now this organization has become an umbrella that supports communities without cellular coverage to build and manage their own mobile networks.
  7.  Jane Butler/Sebastian Beuttrich – Wireless Networking in the Developing World<http://wndw.net/>, the team behind WNDW have been key drivers of training programs for wireless networking community development.
Moderator: Jane Coffin, Director for Development Strategy, Internet Society

From: Abdeldjalil Bachar Bong <abdeldjalil.bachar at gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 at 5:01 PM
To: janecoffin <coffin at isoc.org>
Cc: "chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org" <Chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>
Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] A4AI - Tomorrow 23 June 1300 UTC - Discussion on policies needed to achieve Universal Access - ow.ly/zeJv301xnrr

Thanks Coffin i Will participe remotely it is an important session ;

Le mercredi 22 juin 2016, Jane Coffin <coffin at isoc.org<mailto:coffin at isoc.org>> a écrit :
Hi All –

A4AI has an event on 23 June at 1300 UTC :  http://ow.ly/zeJv301xnrr on policies needed to achieve Universal Access.

Best,
Jane

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Subject: [Chapter-delegates] OECD Session on Open Internet webcast - now

In case you are interested - the OECD session on Open Internet is taken place now, in Cancun, Mexico:
http://www.oecdministerial.tv/hall_a.html

(English, French and Spanish languages are optional choices)

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Best,

Veni Markovski

Internet Society - Bulgaria

www.isoc.bg<http://www.isoc.bg>

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Cordialement
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