"Community Networks" in the African Context: Opportunities and Barriers

Most of this attention has been the result of the great impact that some of initiatives implementing the CN model are having around the world (guifi.net in Catalunya/Spain, Altermundi in Argentina, Rhizomatica in Mexico, Wireless for Communities in India, Nepal Wireless in Nepal). Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for third-party components of this work must be honored. For all other uses, contact the Owner/Author. Copyright is held by the owner/author(s). AfriCHI'16, November 21-25, 2016, Nairobi, Kenya ACM 978-1-4503-4830-0/16/11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2998581.2998620 Carlos Rey-Moreno U. Western Cape, South Africa crey-moreno@uwc.ac.za