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     1      1   #+title: Community-Lab: A Community Networking Testbed for the Future Internet
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     3      3   * Introduction
     4      4   ** Community networks
     5         -- Origins: In spite of the importance of the Internet, companies and
     6         -  governments left behind people and regions of little economic interest for
     7         -  them.  Thus some groups started coordinating the deployment of their own
     8         -  networks for self-provision.
            5  +- Infrastructure deployed by organized groups of people for self-provision of
            6  +  broadband networking that works and grows according to their own interests.
     9      7   - Characteristics: Open participation, open and transparent management,
    10         -  distributed ownership, works and grows according to users' interests.
    11         -- Prospective: Strategic importance for the expansion of broadband access
    12         -  throughout Europe (as stated in the European Digital Agenda).
            8  +  distributed ownership.
            9  +- CNs are of strategic importance for the universal availability of broadband
           10  +  networking (according to the European Digital Agenda).
    13     11   - A challenge: How to support the growth and sustainability of community
    14     12     networks by providing the means to conduct experimentally driven research.
    15     13   
    16         -** The CONFINE project (Community Networks Testbed for the Future Internet)
           14  +** The CONFINE project: Community Networks Testbed for the Future Internet
    17     15   - Takes on the previous challenge.
    18     16   - Project supported by the European Community Framework Programme 7 within the
    19     17     Future Internet Research and Experimentation Initiative (FIRE).
    20     18   - Partners (list with logos): (community networks) guifi.net, Funkfeuer,
    21     19     Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network; (research centres) Universitat
    22     20     Politècnica de Catalunya, Fraunhofer Institute for Communication,
    23     21     Information Processing and Ergonomics, Interdisciplinary Institute for