Community networks: building digital sovereignty and environmental sustainability

Abstract

This book is the official 2023 outcome of the Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity (DC3), which is a component of the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF). Community networks are crowdsourced initiatives relying on the active participation of local communities in the design, development and management of network infrastructure as a common resource. add text. This volume is the latest collective effort elaborated by DC3 and is dedicated to “Community Networks: Digital Sovereignty and Environmental Sustainability” to provide a missing, yet essential, perspective to the community networks debate: their role as drivers of commons-based notions of digital sovereignty and environmental sustainability. For further information on DC3 and all previous reports can be found at www.comconnectivity.org