GAIA Community Networks: Sustainability & Regulation Workshop

This a GAIA workshop in Cambridge on January 26 & 27, 2017 about the development of local networking infrastructures using cooperative & open-access management schemes. We consider two main approaches:

• Open-access radio spectrum (and its availability, sharing, open access, etc),
• Community networks (with similar properties) providing open-access connectivity (and also IX-like infrastructures etc).

The workshop is funded by the Internet Society, EU H2020 RIFE Project, EU H2020 Netcommons Project and the EPSRC GCRF African Internet Measurement Observatory (AIMO) project.

We aim to have some travel funding for practitioners/regulators in developing regions (you might get some measurement boxes to go back and deploy too!)- so if you are interested, please send Arjuna an email.

If you are interested in giving a talk, send us (organization) an email on the topic with a short abstract. Talks will be brief (5-10 mins and slides) to leave time for discussions in small groups to elaborate ideas and then share the outcome to everyone.

Organization:

• Arjuna Sathiaseelan (UCAM), projects: EU H2020 RIFE, the EPSRC GCRF African Internet Measurement Observatory (AIMO)
• Marco Zennaro (ICTP)
• Leandro Navarro (UPC), projects: ISOC-Beyond The Net-Net4All, EU H2020 Netcommons Project

Participation:

We would like to know how many of you can make it - for catering & organisation purposes. Doodle poll is here

Agenda:

January 26 (Thursday)
Morning:

• Panel Open-access radio spectrum 1
• Small groups discussion
• Break
• Open-access radio spectrum 2
• Small groups discussion

• Panel Community networks 1
• Small groups discussion
• Break
• Community networks 2
• Small groups discussion
• SHARING LESSONS AND PLANS FOR COLLABORATION

January 27 (Friday)
Morning:

• Community networks 3
• Open-access radio spectrum 3
• Break
• Small groups discussion
• SHARING OVERALL LESSONS AND PLANS FOR COLLABORATION

Speakers: Carlos Rey Moreno - Zenzeleni Ivy Hoetu, Ghana regulator Invited David Johnson Steve Song - netCommons advisor Euan, Project First Light in DRC Kanchana Kanchasut - Thailand Arzak Khan - Pakistan Leandro Navarro - UPC

Participants: Arjuna Sathiaseelan, Renato Lo Cigno, Felix Freitag, Roger Baig, Adam Burns Melanie Dulong, Panayotis Antoniadis, Andres, Jon Crowcroft, Raluca Diaconu, Nishanth, Steve Song, Gareth, Federica, Yiota, Maria Zaghi - Guatemala, Jörg, Kanchana, Aravindh, Yehia, Ivy Hoetu, Leandro, Eiko, Ioannis Komnios, Julius Anani Akpalu, Euan Millar, Josephine Miliza