Latin American Community Networks Organisation for Technological Appropiation (ORCAL)

ORCAL is a joint initiative of Latin American community networks and network builders to reinforce their individual and collective sustainability through three objectives:

1. Political advocacy to legalise community networks and facilitate access to universal service funds and radio spectrum.

2. Collective, organised implementation of LibreRouter technology, including homologation.

3. Strengthening the regional integration of the network of community network organisations and mutual support for community network deployment projects.

Institutions involved:

• Coolab (Brazil peer)

• Instituto Bem Estar (Brazil peer)

• Colnodo (Colombia peer)

• AlterMundi (Argentina peer)

• InterPueblo (Ecuador)

• Universidad de Oriente (Cuba) 

• Rede Moinho (Brazil) 

• NuestraRed (Colombia)

Project representatives: 

• Hiure Anderson Alves da Silva Queiroz (Coolab, Brazil peer)

• Thiago Paixão (Instituto Bem Estar, Brazil peer)

• Lilian Chamorro Rojas (Colnodo, Colombia peer)

• Jésica Giudice (AlterMundi, Argentina peer)

• Patrick Gibbs (InterPueblo, Ecuador)

• Gustavo Cervantes Moreno (Universidad de Oriente, Cuba)

• Luandro Pedreira Vieira (Rede Moinho, Brazil)

• Juliana Hernández Díaz (NuestraRed, Colombia)

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