Reminder: This is at 3:30 pm today! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Esther Jang <infrared@cs.washington.edu> Date: Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 5:13 PM Subject: Super Special Extra Change Seminar: Nico Pace- Community Wireless Networks Around the World To: change@change.washington.edu Please join us for an unexpected extra Change Seminar this *Friday 2/9/2018 (tomorrow)* in *EEB003, our usual seminar room*! *Who: *Nico Pace, Altermundi *What:** Community Wireless Networks Around the World* *When:* Friday, Feb 9th, 3:30pm *Where:** EEB003* [image: Inline image 1] *Bio:* Nicolás is a full-time nomad. He works for AlterMundi <https://www.altermundi.net/>, a Grassroots organization devoted to support communities in the self-provision of telecommunications infrastructure mainly through wireless mesh networks. He has been traveling around countries of America, Africa, Europe and Asia to understand the different needs of rural global south communities and to create a bond between them to collaborate in the creation of empowering telecommunications solutions to grow in the exercise of their freedom and power. He also does outreach and training activities in the context of Wireless Mesh Community Networks and is part of the LibreMesh development project. source <http://radicalnetworks.org/participants/nicolas-pace> *Abstract:*
From an Association for Progressive Communications <https://www.apc.org/en/blog/expanding-community-networks-around-world-altermundi> blog post this January: "One year ago, our members’ network was joined by Altermundi, an Argentina-based NGO that strives to promote a new paradigm based on freedom gained through peer-to-peer collaboration. AlterMundi explores different forms of such collaboration from a technological perspective and with an emphasis on wireless community networks in small towns and rural areas. Through projects such as LibreMesh and LibreRouter, they contribute to a model based on accessible technologies that can be used by people with no expertise in this area. AlterMundi members describe themselves as nomads. Over the past year, their mission to expand their model of community networks has led them to cross several continents, to participate in projects in large capital cities and in small towns and to divide themselves between global meetings with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and small, rural communities."
