From gabe at pwd.ca  Thu Jul  3 19:17:10 2008
From: gabe at pwd.ca (Gabe Sawhney)
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 19:17:10 -0400
Subject: [wirelesstoronto-discuss] Fwd: [isf-vol] tracey's (from ogwifi)
	paper on CWN's
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From: Michael Lenczner <mlenczner at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 4:40 PM
Subject: [isf-vol] tracey's (from ogwifi) paper on CWN's
To: Volontaires Ile sans Fil <volontaires at listes.ilesansfil.org>


cool / interesting that she's using the term community wireless
infrastructure instead of community wireless networks.  I like it much
better :-)


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Discuss and Critically Assess Community Built Communication
Infrastructures as Possible Solutions for Contested Territories: With
Nagaland and its Environs as a Case Study.

By: Tracey P. Lauriault June 25, 2008

Abstract

Infrastructures have traditionally been built by experts, politicians,
technocrats and entrepreneurs with little or no input by citizens or
understanding of the values embedded within them nor the context
within which they are constructed. Communication infrastructures like
transportation, water, and power infrastructure are complex socio,
cultural and technological systems found in all human habitats. Humans
communicate and have developed communications, media and
infrastructures to transmit information, knowledge and stories. The
infrastructure and the stories it technologically mediates is an agent
in the creation of a community's collective consciousness, archive,
and imagination. These communications can assist with maintaining
community cohesiveness, a shared identity and forming a social space.
Community communication networks / infrastructures (CCN/Is) are
emerging as significant grassroots technosocial movements worldwide.
These can be a Wireless Local Area Network, a sneaker net, or a fully
connected Internet mesh network. Irrespective of the infrastructure's
architecture, CCIs are community created and maintained. CCIs often
consciously and sub-consciously embed local, social, cultural and
political values in the technological and social infrastructures being
constructed. The expertise, commitment of members, the spirit of open
source coding, hacker/tinkerer ethic and free culture associated with
these and the unique mix of citizens involved, combined with the
propagation of knowledge, support, and inexpensive technology is quite
unique and characteristic of the Web 2.0 ethos. Infrastructures are
complex social, technical and culturally specific artifacts that are
shaped by and in turn shape societies. It is suggested that citizens
can be active agents in the creation and maintenance of as opposed to
passive recipients of infrastructures. It is argued that the social
and technological innovations of CCIs, relatively easy access to ad
hoc yet very powerful networks of experts and literature combined with
the ability to build low cost solutions for a variety of contexts may
provide people living in contested territories with the means to
construct their own communication infrastructures as part of
pre-existing information ecologies, social spaces, local knowledge and
physical geographies. The research approach is for this paper is
analogous to Activist scholarship, positioned objectivity and
experiential learning. Nagaland is the contested territory
investigated.

http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2008/06/25/oh-yeah-my-comp-paper-is-on-its-way-to-the-readers/
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From gabe at pwd.ca  Thu Jul  3 19:17:10 2008
From: gabe at pwd.ca (Gabe Sawhney)
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 19:17:10 -0400
Subject: [wirelesstoronto-discuss] Fwd: [isf-vol] tracey's (from ogwifi)
	paper on CWN's
In-Reply-To: <2ec66f2d0806251340p63d6e1dbwd1874bff1799a46d@mail.gmail.com>
References: <2ec66f2d0806251340p63d6e1dbwd1874bff1799a46d@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <95b1c3780807031617m5466f816la520dcb86973de8b@mail.gmail.com>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Michael Lenczner <mlenczner at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 4:40 PM
Subject: [isf-vol] tracey's (from ogwifi) paper on CWN's
To: Volontaires Ile sans Fil <volontaires at listes.ilesansfil.org>


cool / interesting that she's using the term community wireless
infrastructure instead of community wireless networks.  I like it much
better :-)


---------------------
Discuss and Critically Assess Community Built Communication
Infrastructures as Possible Solutions for Contested Territories: With
Nagaland and its Environs as a Case Study.

By: Tracey P. Lauriault June 25, 2008

Abstract

Infrastructures have traditionally been built by experts, politicians,
technocrats and entrepreneurs with little or no input by citizens or
understanding of the values embedded within them nor the context
within which they are constructed. Communication infrastructures like
transportation, water, and power infrastructure are complex socio,
cultural and technological systems found in all human habitats. Humans
communicate and have developed communications, media and
infrastructures to transmit information, knowledge and stories. The
infrastructure and the stories it technologically mediates is an agent
in the creation of a community's collective consciousness, archive,
and imagination. These communications can assist with maintaining
community cohesiveness, a shared identity and forming a social space.
Community communication networks / infrastructures (CCN/Is) are
emerging as significant grassroots technosocial movements worldwide.
These can be a Wireless Local Area Network, a sneaker net, or a fully
connected Internet mesh network. Irrespective of the infrastructure's
architecture, CCIs are community created and maintained. CCIs often
consciously and sub-consciously embed local, social, cultural and
political values in the technological and social infrastructures being
constructed. The expertise, commitment of members, the spirit of open
source coding, hacker/tinkerer ethic and free culture associated with
these and the unique mix of citizens involved, combined with the
propagation of knowledge, support, and inexpensive technology is quite
unique and characteristic of the Web 2.0 ethos. Infrastructures are
complex social, technical and culturally specific artifacts that are
shaped by and in turn shape societies. It is suggested that citizens
can be active agents in the creation and maintenance of as opposed to
passive recipients of infrastructures. It is argued that the social
and technological innovations of CCIs, relatively easy access to ad
hoc yet very powerful networks of experts and literature combined with
the ability to build low cost solutions for a variety of contexts may
provide people living in contested territories with the means to
construct their own communication infrastructures as part of
pre-existing information ecologies, social spaces, local knowledge and
physical geographies. The research approach is for this paper is
analogous to Activist scholarship, positioned objectivity and
experiential learning. Nagaland is the contested territory
investigated.

http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2008/06/25/oh-yeah-my-comp-paper-is-on-its-way-to-the-readers/
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