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      distributed ownership **[+]**
    - Open, Free, neutral networks  
    - Mutual agreement texts
- Key for EU Digital Agenda

# … distributed ownership (1/3)

![Private network and Internet access](imgs/network-private.png)

# … distributed ownership (2/3)

![Public network, private Internet access](imgs/network-public.png)

# … distributed ownership (3/3)

![Community network, assorted services](imgs/network-community.png)

# Community networks (CNs)

- Broadband self-provision
- Similar to Free software:
    - Open participation & management,  
      distributed ownership
    - Open, Free, neutral networks  
    - Mutual agreement texts
- Key for EU Digital Agenda

# The CONFINE project

- Partners **[+]**
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# … Partners

![CONFINE project partners](imgs/confine-partners.png)

# The CONFINE project

- Partners



- Support sustainable growth of CNs via research  
  (technologies & services)
- Help other projects boost CNs (Open Calls) **[+]**
- Provide a testbed for CNs: Community-Lab

# … (Open Calls)

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# The CONFINE project

- Partners
- Support sustainable growth of CNs via research  
  (technologies & services)
- Help other projects boost CNs (Open Calls)


- Provide a testbed for CNs: Community-Lab

# Community-Lab

- A testbed built on community networks
- Like PlanetLab:
    - Global scale
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    - Fair to other users  
      (no spying, no low-level, routing & above)
    - Simple, tolerant to network failures
- Free software: build your own testbed!

# Community-Lab as community infrastructure

- Extend CNs with Community-Lab nodes and links **[+]**
- Community-Lab for hosting services
- [Clommunity](http://clommunity-project.eu/): community clouds

# … Extend CNs …

![Extending community networks](imgs/extend-network.png)

# Community-Lab as community infrastructure

- Extend CNs with Community-Lab nodes and links
- Community-Lab for hosting services
- [Clommunity](http://clommunity-project.eu/): community clouds

# Architecture and technologies

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      distributed ownership **[+]**
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- Key for EU Digital Agenda

# … distributed ownership (1/3)

![Public network, private Internet access](imgs/network-public.png)

# … distributed ownership (2/3)

![Private network and Internet access](imgs/network-private.png)

# … distributed ownership (3/3)

![Community network, assorted services](imgs/network-community.png)

# Community networks (CNs)

- Broadband self-provision
- Similar to Free software:
    - Open participation & management,  
      distributed ownership (public > private > community)
    - Open, Free, neutral networks  
    - Mutual agreement texts
- Key for EU Digital Agenda

# The CONFINE project

- Partners **[+]**
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# … Partners

![CONFINE project partners](imgs/confine-partners.png)

# The CONFINE project

- Partners
    - CNs: guifi.net, AWMN, Funkfeuer
    - Research: UPC, iMinds, FKIE
    - NGOs: Pangea, OPLAN
- Support sustainable growth of CNs via research  
  (technologies & services)
- Help other projects boost CNs (Open Calls) **[+]**
- Provide a testbed for CNs: Community-Lab

# … (Open Calls)

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# The CONFINE project

- Partners
- Support sustainable growth of CNs via research  
  (technologies & services)
- Help other projects boost CNs (Open Calls)
    - 5 current ones
    - 15+ more to come
- Provide a testbed for CNs: Community-Lab

# Community-Lab

- A testbed built on community networks
- Like PlanetLab:
    - Global scale
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    - Fair to other users  
      (no spying, no low-level, routing & above)
    - Simple, tolerant to network failures
- Free software: build your own testbed!

# Community-Lab as community infrastructure

- Extend CNs **[+]**
- Community-Lab for hosting services
- [Clommunity](http://clommunity-project.eu/): community clouds

# … Extend CNs …

![Extending community networks](imgs/extend-network.png)

# Community-Lab as community infrastructure

- Extend CNs (with Community-Lab nodes and links)
- Community-Lab for hosting services
- [Clommunity](http://clommunity-project.eu/): community clouds

# Architecture and technologies

<!--- testbed architecture diagram --->
- Testbed