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21 entradas

Semillero de Redes Comunitarias en Cherán

El 19 a 24 de junio de 2019 estuve invitado a facilitar junto con Jesi y San, el primer taller del Semillero de Redes Comunitarias del Abya Yala, en Cherán K’eri, Michoacán, México. Antes de viajar, me animaba la perspectiva de reencontrar a varias personas que habia conocido en experiencias anteriores, principalmente del primer TechioComunitario (Oaxaca, MX, 2017). Fui con varios objetivos concretos: por un lado, ver de cerca el desarrollo del Semillero, con intención de poder replicar la experiencia […]

Mesh is in the Air!

AlterMundi endorses «Mesh is in the Air»:https://www.wireless-meshup.org – this years mesh up of the «Wireless Battle of the Mesh»:https://www.battlemesh.org and «Wireless Community Weekend»:https://wiki.freifunk.net/Wireless_Community_Weekend_2018.

If you are a mesh networking enthusiast, community activist, have an interest in wifi or dynamic routing protocols, you can’t miss this event!

Autonomía Digital en el Cauca

Taller práctico para la construcción de Internet Comunitario Popayán, Colombia – 23 de enero al 29 de enero de 2017 La Organización para el Desarrollo Urbano y Campesino (ORDEURCA) se propuso realizar un taller práctico de la construcción de Internet Comunitario y nos invitaron a compartir nuestra experiencia. “Reconociendo la importancia de contar con herramientas seguras de comunicación en las comunidades campesinas, indígenas y afro, la falta de acceso al internet en muchas zonas rurales y la monopolización de las […]

LibreRouter presentation at Metalab

On 11th November, Isa and Gui held a session about LibreRouter at the Metalab in Vienna, Austria. A quick overview of the networks in Latin America was given, explaining the motives behind the LibreRouter initial idea, and how the recent progress unfolded. Drawing connections with other movements, and taking the opportunity to promote the upcoming BattleMesh v10 Edition, while at the same time remarking the current lack of diversity of the developers community (mostly white males) and how projects like […]

First experience at IETF 96

Last week, we were cordially invited to take part in the IETF 96 in Berlin with the exceptional support of Christian from ISOC.It was an interesting experience, a little bit daunting at first, but very valuable to meet the people that define the Internet standards, and to witness the consensus process in first person. Gui attended the event representing AlterMundi, along with Gio (core LibreMesh developer), Axel (BMX6 developer), Al (guifi.net member), and Lusy (Freifunk). We were very happy to […]

Una semana en MulukukuLibre

Hacia el final de Enero 2016, estuve 10 días conociendo a la gente maravillosa de la Cooperativa Maria Luisa Ortiz, en el pueblito de Mulukuku, Nicaragua. Compartimos una semana intensiva de capacitación de Red Comunitaria estilo AlterMundi, a fin de que aprendieran a montar todo con sus propias manos. La premisa desde el primer día fue que mi papel era facilitar el aprendizaje, y no montar ningún equipo yo mismo. El objetivo principal no era tener una red andando, sino […]

Workshops at the IFF 2016

Gui and Isa were representing AlterMundi at the Internet Freedom Festival in Valencia, Spain. In 2 sessions we shared our experiences from Quintana Libre, the beginnings of Delta Libre and the Fumaça Project in Brasil. Many people asked us about building a network in other parts of the world like Nigeria, Colombia and Cuba. The first session was called Autonomous Wireless and GSM Networks We invited Gio from Italia and people from guifi.net, to share the experiences of building mesh […]

Experiencias con Telefonía Celular Comunitaria

Hace un par de semanas, el martes 19 de enero de 2016, organizamos junto con Bruno de Nuvem.tk un workshop de GSM (telefonía celular) en Casa Nuvem, Rio de Janeiro. Empezamos con una ronda de presentaciones, donde quedó claro que la convocatoria había juntado un grupo muy interesante: un par de personas de Nuevas Fronteras del Control, un activista de Fight for the Future, otro de Tactical Tech, varias de Espectro Livre / Radio Livre, y gente de la Casa […]

Join us at Battle of the Mesh v9!

The Wireless Battle of the Mesh is an event that aims to bring together people from across the globe to test the performance of different routing protocols for ad-hoc networks, like Babel, B.A.T.M.A.N, BMX, OLSR, and 802.11s. Many developers and community networkers will join the event to hack, test, discuss, explain and learn. If you are interested in dynamic routing protocols or wireless community networks you can’t miss this event! The BattleMesh is free of charge and open for all, […]

Timeline April-November 2015

This year we received funding from 3 different sources: «LACNIC’s FRIDA Award»:/article/ganamos-los-premios-frida-2015/, a «SEED Grant by the Open Technology Institute»:/article/community-technology-seed-grant/, and a «Flash Grant from the Shuttleworth Foundation»:/article/shuttleworth-flash-grant/.

Back in March, we outlined a roadmap with the activities we wanted to carry out along the year, and by combining the grants we managed to exceed our expectations! So here’s a quick retrospective on what was accomplished.