Routing For Communities

We are happy to announce the launch of the Routing for Communities podcast on 1 June. We invite you to listen to the podcast teaser and subscribe here to get the episodes as soon as they are released.

In our first episode, we will discover an inspiring experience from South Africa: the Mamaila Community Network, which is connecting a rural area that had been ignored by major communications providers, while building digital skills.
 

Our second episode takes us on a trip to Kenya to visit TunapandaNET, an initiative that combines digital networks with community-led action to enable communication, education and health in Kibera, the biggest slum in Africa.
 

Come with us on a journey to meet the “Wiki Katat”, the first indigenous virtual operator providing internet and mobile phone services in Mexico. In this episode, you will get to know Flor Lino, who is part of the Wiki Katat and also of a community indigenous radio station in the country.

Bienvenidos/as a nuestro primer episodio en español. Acompáñanos en un viaje para conocer “Wiki Katat”, el primer operador virtual indígena que brinda servicios de internet y telefonía móvil en México.

In this episode you will get to know the Amadiba Community Network, a project that has been strengthening the community's fight to defend their land, the coast of their country and their people, through access to the internet.

In this episode, you will travel to a rural area in Córdoba, Argentina. There we will get to know the Quintana Libre community network. With a strong community networks movement, in the last years, Argentina started to develop state programmes in support of community-led models for connectivity. 

Hoy viajaremos a una zona rural de Córdoba, en Argentina, donde conoceremos la red comunitaria Quintana Libre. En los últimos años, Argentina comenzó a desarrollar programas estatales para garantizar el acceso a internet, incrimentando considerablemente el número de redes comunitarias en el país.

Let's go to Indonesia together to meet the Common Room Networks Foundation, an organisation that works with art, culture, communication and new technologies. They helped build the community network in Ciptagelar Traditional Village, in West Java.

In this episode, we share a story from Brazil. We talked to Daiane Araújo, who works on community networks projects and reflects on their intersection with gender, race and class. We also talked to Luísa Bagope, one of the creators of the project “Nodes that Bond”, which focuses on gender and feminist issues. 

Bem-vindes ao Brasil e ao nosso primeiro conteúdo em português! Neste episódio, vamos conhecer iniciativas e pessoas que pensam sobre as redes comunitárias não apenas a partir das desigualdades de conectividade, mas também sobre a necessidade de agir sobre relações de poder e diferenças de gênero, raça e classe.

In our eighth episode, we travel to the African continent once again! In Nigeria, we meet Harira Wakili and CITAD to learn more about their work on community networks. We also hear from Josephine Miliza about the importance of women in building enabling policy and regulation.

In our ninth episode, you’ll get to know an initiative that has already connected over 7,000 homes in England’s northwestern rural areas to the internet: the Broadband for the Rural North project, more commonly known as B4RN.

For this season’s 10th episode, you will get to know more about another story from Latin America. We’re talking about an experience in the countryside of Colombia, in an Indigenous community, where the Jxa'h Wejxia Casil Community Network is operating.

En el décimo episodio de esta temporada, conocerás más sobre otra historia de América Latina. Estamos hablando de la experiencia de una comunidad indígena en una región rural de Colombia donde opera la Red Comunitaria Jxa'h Wejxia Casil.

The story you’ll hear in the 11th episode of our season takes place in Thailand. We are going to learn about Professor Kanchaná Kanchanásut’s pioneering venture, which took the internet to this Southeast Asian country.

We’ve reached the last episode of our season together. And the story in it will inspire you, while showing how community networks are essential and possible when different people get involved.

En este nuevo episodio especial del podcast, escucharás a las personas que participaron en la fiesta radial Tz’ikin, celebrada en abril de 2024 en ciudad de Guatemala.

En este nuevo episodio especial del podcast, escucharás a las personas que participaron en la fiesta radial Tz’ikin, celebrada en abril de 2024 en ciudad de Guatemala.