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#+title: Community-Lab: A Community Networking Testbed for the Future Internet
* Introduction
** Community networks
- Origins: In spite of the importance of the Internet, companies and
governments left behind people and regions of little economic interest for
them. Thus some groups started coordinating the deployment of their own
networks for self-provision.
- Characteristics: Open participation, open and transparent management,
distributed ownership, works and grows according to users' interests.
- Prospective: Strategic importance for the expansion of broadband access
throughout Europe (as stated in the European Digital Agenda).
- A challenge: How to support the growth and sustainability of community
networks 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).
- Partners (list with logos): (community networks) guifi.net, Funkfeuer,
Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network; (research centres) Universitat
Politècnica de Catalunya, Fraunhofer Institute for Communication,
Information Processing and Ergonomics, Interdisciplinary Institute for
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#+title: Community-Lab: A Community Networking Testbed for the Future Internet
* 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 (according to the European Digital Agenda).
- A challenge: How to support the growth and sustainability of community
networks 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).
- Partners (list with logos): (community networks) guifi.net, Funkfeuer,
Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network; (research centres) Universitat
Politècnica de Catalunya, Fraunhofer Institute for Communication,
Information Processing and Ergonomics, Interdisciplinary Institute for
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