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     3      3   * Introduction
     4      4   ** Community networks
     5      5   - Infrastructure deployed by organized groups of people for self-provision of
     6      6     broadband networking that works and grows according to their own interests.
     7      7   - Characteristics: Open participation, open and transparent management,
     8      8     distributed ownership.
     9         -- CNs are of strategic importance for the universal availability of broadband
    10         -  networking (an initiative for the European Digital Agenda).
    11         -- A challenge for researchers: How to support the growth and sustainability of
    12         -  CNs by providing the means to conduct experimentally driven research.
            9  +- The EU regards CNs as fundamental for the universalization of broadband
           10  +  networking.
           11  +- New research challenge: How to support the growth and sustainability of CNs
           12  +  by providing the means to conduct experimentally driven research.
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    14     14   ** The CONFINE project: Community Networks Testbed for the Future Internet
    15     15   - Takes on the previous challenge.
    16     16   - Project supported by the European Community Framework Programme 7 within the
    17     17     Future Internet Research and Experimentation Initiative (FIRE).
    18     18   # List partner's logos.
    19     19   - Partners: (community networks) guifi.net, Funkfeuer, Athens Wireless