Index: script.txt ================================================================== --- script.txt +++ script.txt @@ -1,21 +1,19 @@ #+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. +- 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, 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). + 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) +** 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