Community networks and smart solutions in remote areas – a bottom-up approach to digital citizenship – WS 12 2020

12 June 2020 | 11:30-13:00 | Studio Trieste | |
Consolidated programme 2020 overview / Day 2

EuroDIG Partners agreed to adapt the programme to a virtual meeting and it was advised to reduce the number of sessions. Therefore WS 12 was merged with WS 16. Kindly follow the new merged session at this page.

Proposals: #23, #33, #44, #61, #69, #70, #91, #95 (#55, #83)

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Session teaser

Community-led initiatives to digital services and connectivity

Session description

The Session offers a discussion about needs, challenges and best practices in offering applications and services based on broadband infrastructure developed with the participation of Rural communities. The session will cover recent events caused by COVID 19, however, it will also discuss issues that will exist in the aftermath of the current pandemic.

Format

Until 11 May 2020.

Please try out new interactive formats. EuroDIG is about dialogue not about statements, presentations and speeches. Workshops should not be organised as a small plenary.

Session materials and Further reading

• Community Network Project in Georgia 2019 - Arkhoti Region Video (4')

• Freifunk initiative (community networking in Germany)- Video

• Bremke – making a village digital - Slides

• The Things Network - Nova Gorica Video (3'22)

• Air pollution and SARS-CoV-2 high lethality Paper

• Air quality monitoring network Online map

• Sarantaporo.gr Wireless Community Network Video (4')

• Sarantaporo.gr community member interview Video (1')

• Sarantaporo.gr Project Slides

• ETNO - Impact of COVID on the telecom sector providing recommendations to policymakers for the recovery phase: Paper

• SmartVillages Project - Interreg Alpine Space Video (3')
• SmartVillages Project - Website

People

Until 27 April 2020.

Please provide name and institution for all people you list here.

Subject Matter Expert

• Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond
• Frédéric Donck
• Ceren Unal

Focal Point

• Sandro Karumidze

Organising Team (Org Team) List them here as they sign up.

• Carlo Vigna
• Roberto Gaetano
• Amali De Silva-Mitchell
• Paolo Perucci
• Carola Croll
• Luis Martinez
• Vassilis Chryssos
• Tom Puc
• Gianluca Lentini
• Valensiya Dresvyannikova
• Nenja Wolbers

Key Participants

• Carola Croll , Researcher, Digital Opportunities Foundation - Stiftung Digitale Chancen
• Gianluca Lentini , Researcher and Project Manager, Poliedra - Politecnico di Milano
• Maarit Palovirta Director, Regulatory Affairs at ETNO
• Massimiliano Stucchi Technical Advisor, European Bureau at Internet Society
• Tom Puc IoT Evangelist and LoRAWAN Advocate, Core Team Member of TheThingsNetwork Community Nova Gorica
• Vassilis Chryssos Co-founder at Sarantaporo.gr

Moderator

• Frédéric Donck Regional Vice President - Europe, Internet Society

Remote Moderator

Trained remote moderators will be assigned on the spot by the EuroDIG secretariat to each session.

Reporter

• Marco Lotti, Geneva Internet Platform

Current discussion, conference calls, schedules and minutes

See the discussion tab on the upper left side of this page. Please use this page to publish:

• dates for virtual meetings or coordination calls
• short summary of calls or email exchange

Please be as open and transparent as possible in order to allow others to get involved and contact you. Use the wiki not only as the place to publish results but also to summarize the discussion process.

Messages

A short summary of the session will be provided by the Reporter.

Find an independent report of the session from the Geneva Internet Platform Digital Watch Observatory at https://dig.watch/resources/community-networks-rural-areas-best-practice.

Video record

Video recording of the session WS12 & WS16 - Youtube

Transcript

Will be provided here after the event.