Welcome! In this channel you will receive monthly updates on the Routing for communities podcast. During our season together, we will get inspired by stories and voices that are intertwined, connected by a common thread: building internet and communication community networks.

Hi dear all 🙂

We are delighted to announce the launch of the Routing for Communities podcast, with the first 2 of 12 episodes now out!

▶️ In our *first episode*, we will discover an inspiring experience from South Africa: the *Mamaila Community Network*, which is connecting a rural area that had been ignored by major communications providers, while building digital skills. You can listen to it here: https://www.apc.org/en/podcasts/women-connecting-village

▶️ Our *second episode* takes us on a trip to Kenya to visit *TunapandaNET*, an initiative that combines digital networks with community-led action to enable communication, education and health in Kibera. Check it out here: https://www.apc.org/en/podcasts/vibrancy-kibera-residents

EP 1 - Women connecting a village

EP 2 - The vibrancy of the Kibera residents

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Hi everyone,

We hope you are starting July well. We have exciting news to share: our podcast’s new episodes are up!

▶️ This month we invite you to come with us on a journey to meet Wiki Katat, the first Indigenous virtual operator providing internet and mobile phone services in Mexico:
https://www.apc.org/en/podcasts/3-wiki-katat-first-indigenous-virtual-operator-mexico

▶️ In the fourth episode you will get to know the Amadiba Community Network, a project that has been strengthening the community in the defence of their land, the coast of South Africa and their people:
https://www.apc.org/en/podcasts/4-amadiba-community-network-and-people-resisting-south-africas-wild-coast

If you support community-led approaches to connectivity and communications, please help us to spread these inspiring stories and leave your comments here :)

In our third episode you will meet Flor Lino, who is part of Wiki Katat and also of an Indigenous community radio station in the country. You will also meet Lilian Chamorro, who works in many organisations related to the field of community networks in Latin America.

Guiding us in the fourth episode is Lungelo Mtwa, from Pondoland, a region on the coast of South Africa bathed by the Indian Ocean. Today, the region is one of the last vestiges of the country's untouched coastline, known as the Wild Coast. But Amadiba is known not only for its natural beauty and the preservation of its traditions, but also as a community that is threatened by a titanium mining project.

In this episode we also interviewed Mike Jensen, an internet pioneer working at the Association for Progressive Communications (APC). We explored ideas for thinking about connectivity and community networks.

Greetings everyone,
How are you?

It is August and we are delighted to share the two new episodes of the Routing for Communities podcast.

This month we go together on a journey to Argentina and Indonesia to meet inspiring community-led initiatives:

▶️Episode 5: Learning from communities in Argentina
https://www.apc.org/en/podcasts/5-learning-communities-argentina

▶️Episode 6: Community networks enabling art, culture and communication in Indonesia
https://www.apc.org/en/podcasts/6-community-networks-enabling-art-culture-and-communication-indonesia

We hope you enjoy them. Please, leave your comments and help us to share them with others :)

Hi all, how are you? Coming back here to share the audios from the August episodes. Please feel free to share it with people who would like it :)

Episode 5: Learning from communities in Argentina

In this episode, you will travel to a rural area in Córdoba, Argentina. There we will get to know the Quintana Libre community network. With a strong community networks movement, in the last years, Argentina started to develop state programmes in support of community-led models for connectivity. For this story, we talked to Jessica Giudice, a Quintana Libre member and AlterMundi co-founder. We also talked to Natalia Vinelli, who is also in Argentina and deputy director of Special Projects at ENACOM – the country’s regulation authority for communication media and telecommunications.

https://routingforcommunities.apc.org/

Episode 6: Community networks enabling art, culture and communication in Indonesia

Let's go to Indonesia together to meet the Common Room Networks Foundation and its co-founder Gustaff Iskandar. This is an organisation that works with art, culture, communication and new technologies. They helped build the community network in Ciptagelar Traditional Village, in West Java. This inspiring initiative presents alternatives for community-led connectivity in a country where around 12,000 villages are still disconnected. In this episode, we also spoke with Carlos Rey-Moreno, from the Association for Progressive Communications (APC).

https://routingforcommunities.apc.org/

Hi everyone,
How are you?

I'm back here with some exciting news: Today we're launching two new episodes of the Routing for Communities podcast!

▶️ Episode 7: https://www.apc.org/en/podcasts/7-thinking-about-gender-and-race-two-community-led-experiences-brazil

▶️ Episode 8: https://www.apc.org/en/podcasts/8-overcoming-challenges-promote-womens-participation-community-networks-spaces-nigeria

This month, we travelled to Brazil and Nigeria to find out more about experiences with community networks that are reflecting on how inequalities of access combine with those of gender and race. And also how the community-centred approach could help us build more inclusive spaces.

We hope you like them! Please share your comments when you have a chance to listen to the new episodes.

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Greetings everyone,
How are you?

We are launching two new episodes of the Routing for Communities podcast today!

This month, we travel to Colombia and England. And we find out more about two inspiring experiences of community networks that take place in very different contexts, but with one element in common: their construction reflects the power of joint action to realise dreams in communities.

You can listen to them here:

▶️ Episode 9: The story of B4RN and the power of joint action

▶️ Episode 10: The network of the wind from the Nasa Indigenous community in Colombia

We hope you enjoy the new episodes! And please help us to share these voices by sending this message to others :)

Hi everyone,

We hope you are starting November well. We have exciting news to share: today we are launching the last two episodes of the first season of the Routing for Communities podcast!

This month, we travel to Thailand and Kenya to discover inspiring stories of pioneering actions centred on local communities. Find out more:

▶️ Episode 11: Thailand’s first community network connects around 500 homes

▶️ Episode 12: Celebrating community networks making change in Kenya

If you support community-centred approaches to connectivity and communications, please help us to spread these inspiring voices and stories. Recommend this podcast to people who you know will appreciate it. Also available on Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Thank you :)

Hello,

We are writing in this channel again to share some good news: some episodes of our Routing for Communities podcast are now available in Spanish and Portuguese. These episodes were re-recorded in the language in which the interviewees shared their experiences and reflections with us.

In the month marked by International Women's Day, these episodes feature the voices of women who are cultivating community connectivity as a way of improving the well-being of their communities and challenging gender and race inequalities.

For those who understand these languages, see below for more information on the episodes in Spanish and Portuguese:

- [En español] Episodio 3: Bienvenidos/as a nuestro primer episodio en español. Acompáñanos en un viaje para conocer “Wiki Katat”, el primer operador virtual indígena que brinda servicios de internet y telefonía móvil en México. ESCUCHAR AQUÍ.

- [En español] Episodio 5: En este episodio, viajaremos a una zona rural de Córdoba, en Argentina, donde conoceremos la red comunitaria Quintana Libre. En los últimos años, Argentina comenzó a desarrollar programas estatales para garantizar el acceso a internet a través de iniciativas comunitarias. ESCUCHAR AQUÍ.

- [Em português] Episódio 7: Bem-vindes ao primeiro episódio do nosso podcast sobre redes comunitárias em português. Nele, conversamos com a Daiane Araújo e Luísa Bagope sobre conectividade e comunicação comunitária, e as desigualdades de gênero, raça e classe nesse campo no Brasil. OUÇA AQUI.

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