The Community Village at the APC Community Gathering 2024 is a space for the network to present projects and initiatives. During the three days, participants will have the chance to experience a series of creative presentations here in a diversity of formats like videos, photos, posters and demonstrations, allowing them to learn about interesting projects that network members are implementing.
Here are links to some audiovisual projects that have been shared for the Cinema space at the Community Village.
Common Room Networks Foundation, Indonesia
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/18Qnv8m4n3k2FHS8h5iWppfVCy1UfD53W?usp=sharing
Common Room Networks Foundation is an open platform for art, culture, information and communication technology (ICT) and media, committed to maintaining a space for freedom of expression and community empowerment that utilises arts and culture, ICTs and digital media in Indonesia. This resource presents video presentations of various community-based internet infrastructures initiatives as well as training materials from the School of Community Networks initiative.
Digital Empowerment Foundation, India
https://www.youtube.com/defindia
Digital Empowerment Foundation aims to connect unreached and underserved communities of India in an effort to bring them out of digital darkness and empower them with information access through last mile connectivity, digital literacy and digital interventions. Their video channel contains more than a thousand videos from their work in the areas of in the areas of Access & Infrastructure, Education & Empowerment, Governance & Citizen Services, Markets & Social Enterprises, Knowledge Hub & Network and Research & Advocacy.
EngageMedia, Indonesia
https://engagemedia.org/podcast
EngageMedia is a media, technology and culture organisation focused on the strategic use of video to address critical social and environmental issues in the Asia-Pacific region. Their Pretty Good Podcast is dedicated to mainstreaming digital rights in the Asia-Pacific by amplifying regional voices and linking current affairs to issues on and related to digital rights.
Pangea, Spain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr-o02_hwbc
Founded in 1993, Pangea promotes the strategic use of communication networks and ICTs for development and social justice. This link provides a video demonstration of Pangea’s IdHub, which addresses the need for more decentralized, verifiable, secure, privacy-respecting, and user-friendly ways to manage identity-related information for authentication, authorization, and accreditation.
Pollicy, Uganda
https://www.youtube.com/@pollicy9371/videos
Pollicy is a feminist collective of technologists, data scientists, creatives and academics working at the intersection of data, design and technology to craft better life experiences by harnessing improved data. Their video channel presents various news, events and insights from their ongoing work in the field.
Servelots, India
https://vimeo.com/799968976
Servelots was founded in 1999 to provide a highly cost-effective but user-friendly software for SME's with a special focus on the organisations working in the social development sectors. This video is about a bamboo tower building that opens up the possibility where local material is discovered and a tower is put together by the community for their communication needs.
SFLC.in – Software Freedom Law Center, India
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLae3FkSrH1xxY_y6VZKbEl2DNLYOIisVh&si=yysvMiy923eBaAhJ
SFLC.in is a donor-supported legal services organisation that has united lawyers, policy analysts, technologists, business professionals, students and citizens to protect freedom in the digital world since 2010. This link presents the Free Speech Podcast, with engaging conversations with lawyers, journalists, activists and scholars on free speech in India and its changing landscape in the internet-enabled world.
APC
https://www.apc.org/en/podcasts/routingforcommunities
The Routing for Communities podcast of 12 episodes showcases life stories of people connecting themselves while defending the rights and well-being of their communities in remote, rural and urban areas across the globe.
https://www.apc.org/en/podcasts/ftx
In these five episodes, This Feminist Internet Life podcast takes you on a journey of exploring stories of over 15 feminist tech activists from the global south.