The Community Network Manual: How to Build the Internet Yourself

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This volume is the result of the 2018 Call for Papers of the UN IGF Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity (DC3) and is the Official 2018 DC3 Outcome. This book is the third volume of a trilogy demonstrating the vitality, quality and interest of the contributions, projects and policy suggestions developed by DC3 members.

Author(s): Luca Belli (ed.)
Edition: 1
Publisher: FGV, ITU, ISOC
Year: 2018

Language: English
Commentary: from https://comconnectivity.org/the-community-network-manual-how-to-build-the-internet-yourself/
Pages: 256
City: Rio de Janeiro

PREFACE by Bruno Ramos. ..................................................9
ABOUT THE AUTHORS .......................................................13
1 Community Networks: Bridging Digital Divides through the
Enjoyment of Network Self-determination ....................................23
Luca Belli
PART I: How to Build your Community Network .......................................41
2 Building Community Wireless Networks: A How-to Guide
for the Curious ............................................................43
Steven Mansour and Sascha Meinrath
3 Building Community LTE Networks with CoLTE..................................75
Spencer Sevilla, Pathirat Kosakanchit, Matthew Johnson and Kurtis Heimerl
4 The MAZI Toolkit for Do-It-Yourself Networking .............................103
Harris Niavis, Stavroula Maglavera, Aris Dadoukis and John Mavridis
5 LibreRouter: the Hardware and Software Platform for
Community Networking .......................................................119
Nicolas Echániz and Florencia López Pezé
PART II: Scalable, Sustainable and Law-compliant Community Networks ...........131
6 Multiple Dimensions of Community Network Scalability ...................133
Roger Baig Viñas, Leandro Navarro and Ramon Roca i Tió
7 Federating Community Networks:
A Case-study from France ...............................................159
Félix Tréguer
8 Fostering Sustainability of Community Networks:
Guidelines to Respect the European Legal Framework .....................177
Virginie Aubrée and Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay
9 Complementary Networks Meet Complementary Currencies:
Guifi.net Meets Sardex.net ............................................189
Panayotis Antoniadis, Jens Martignoni, Leandro Navarro and Paolo Dini
10 What Could Blockchain do for Community Networks ........................223
Panayotis Antoniadis and Jens Martignoni
11 DECLARATION ON COMMUNITY CONNECTIVITY .................................248