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From Sustainable Community Networks to Sustainable Community Clouds

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The advent of community networks has shown that citizens can take action not only at the technical level to expand the Internet but also at the governance level. What started as isolated and uncoordinated efforts to, mainly, bring connectivity to undeserved areas (using hacked WiFi devices -- the so called Wireless communities) has evolved into self-organised groups offering effective tools to empower people to self-satisfy their telecommunication needs under sustainable alternative models to the dominant one in the global Internet. Inspired by the success of community networks we propose the community network cloud (community cloud) as an instrument to fight the threat posed by the concentration of vast amount of data in few multinational corporations (privacy, vendor lock-in, etc.) and to make the use of the community network infrastructure more efficient.

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R. Baig, R. Roca, L. Navarro, and F. Freitag. guifi.net, a crowdsourced network infrastructure held in common. Elsevier. Computer Networks - In-press, September 2015.
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E. Ostrom. Governing the commons: the evolution of institutions for collective action. Cambridge University Press, Nov. 1990.

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    DEV '15: Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Symposium on Computing for Development
    December 2015
    186 pages
    ISBN:9781450334907
    DOI:10.1145/2830629
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    1. Community networks
    2. community clouds
    3. sustainability

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    • Spanish government

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    December 1 - 2, 2015
    London, United Kingdom

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