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In times of crisis, community networks proved that an infrastructure is only as robust as the more caring of its communal nodes. We are glad to present the special edition: Infrastructures of resistance: Community networks hacking the global crisis. Read the editorial article, by Adriana Labardini.

Feminist talk

In Vale do Ribeira, São Paulo, Brazil, a group of ecological, quilombola farmer women, in partnership with two feminist organisations: APC and Sempreviva Organização Feminista (SOF), managed to deploy and operate their Wi-Fi mesh network. Bruna Zanolli highlights the importance of building trust, empathy and feminist...

 
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Bruna Zanolli

Bruna Zanolli is an activist, community media consultant and self-taught technician in the areas...

Feminist talk

Marcela Guerra shakes us through her tarot card “The Tower”, raising awareness of the urgent need for a fresh start, for human-centred societies and infrastructures, or perish as Mother Nature agonises, and inequalities are exacerbated.

 
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Marcela Guerra

Marcela Guerra is a mother and craftswoman with a focus on technological appropriation and...

Feminist talk

Upasana Bhattacharjee further builds on this notion of community network not only as a local connectivity infrastructure serving the unserved people and rural areas left out by markets or states, but mainly as a social actor that builds knowledge, autonomy and agency at the local level, through a community-owned...

 
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Upasana Bhattacharjee

Upasana is an interdisciplinary researcher working at the intersection of cyberculture and...

In depth

Miami Chirilele writes about how Murambinda Works, a community network in North Buhera, Zimbabwe, has been able to connect 108,000 people, and is hacking the crisis bottom-up.

 
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Miami Chirilele

Miami Chirilele is a final-year student studying for a bachelor’s degree in business studies and...

In depth

This article situates the role of community networks that strive to deliver on technology’s promise of greater gender equality, making the case for recentring the needs of women and communities in technology-making and connectivity, as infrastructures of resistance in times of crisis.

 
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Sarbani Banerjee Belur

Dr. Sarbani Banerjee Belur, is currently the Asia Regional Coordinator for Association for...

In depth

Kira Allmann’s podcast will transport you to the rural north of the United Kingdom to invite you witness one of the Broadband for the Rural North (B4RN) community network assembly meetings, where knowledge is shared, and empathy transpires.

 
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Kira Allmann

Kira Allmann is a public engagement researcher at the Ada Lovelace Institute (London, UK), where...