Policy supports and barriers for community networking projects
Community networking projects like those described in this unit must engage with a complicated array of legal, policy, and regulatory frameworks. These conditions link to centuries of settler colonial policies and practices, and result in significant challenges for Indigenous community networking projects. We discuss these challenges in more detail in Unit 10, which also presents the e-Community framework as a potential solution.
As an introduction to some of these issues, listen to a short CBC North radio interview with members of the First Mile Connectivity Consortium and KFN. The interview describes their attempts to revise the regulatory requirements for broadband development in Canada’s far north. These partners appeared before the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission in summer 2013 to suggest ways that the rules governing broadband infrastructure and funding might be revised to support community networking projects.
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Read more news coverage of these activities at the First Mile Connectivity Consortium website.
You can read a detailed summary of this intervention in an article published in the Journal of Community Informatics.
Community networking projects like those described in this unit must engage with a complicated array of legal, policy, and regulatory frameworks. These conditions link to centuries of settler colonial policies and practices, and result in significant challenges for Indigenous community networking projects. We discuss these challenges in more detail in Unit 10, which also presents the e-Community framework as a potential solution.
As an introduction to some of these issues, listen to a short CBC North radio interview with members of the First Mile Connectivity Consortium and KFN. The interview describes their attempts to revise the regulatory requirements for broadband development in Canada’s far north. These partners appeared before the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission in summer 2013 to suggest ways that the rules governing broadband infrastructure and funding might be revised to support community networking projects.
MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
Read more news coverage of these activities at the First Mile Connectivity Consortium website.
You can read a detailed summary of this intervention in an article published in the Journal of Community Informatics.
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