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