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guifi.net: a network infrastructure commons

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Roger Baig,

Ramon Roca,

Leandro Navarro,

Felix FreitagAuthors Info & Claims

ICTD '15: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2737856.2737900

Published: 15 May 2015 Publication History

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Community networks refers to open, free and neutral network infrastructure built and maintained by citizens and organisations who pool their resources and coordinate their efforts. Among many examples of community networks around the world, this paper presents an analysis of the case of guifi.net, probably the largest in number of nodes and participants, and a success case of a community network daily used by thousands of participants, focusing on the organisational structures developed within the community. guifi.net is organized around the principle of a Common Pool Resource, a viable model for the development of network infrastructure commons. Following an action-research method, the paper describes the processes and tools developed by the community, the current status of its implementation, local impact and lessons learned for more than a decade.

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guifi.net: a network infrastructure commons
1. Networks
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2. Social and professional topics
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ICTD '15: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development

May 2015

429 pages

ISBN:9781450331630

DOI:10.1145/2737856

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Nanyang Technological University
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University of California, Berkeley

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