Index: script.txt ================================================================== --- script.txt +++ script.txt @@ -4,14 +4,14 @@ ** 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 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).