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  "title": "Learning from COWs: Community Owned Wifi-Mesh",
  "publishedAt": "2020-11-01T00:00:00.000Z",
  "textContent": "Published in Branch Magazine (Issue 4), this piece reflects on facilitating community network spaces and developing principles for open climate networks. \"COWs\"- Community Owned Wifi-Mesh- is both acronym and metaphor: a grounded, unglamorous, collectively maintained form of infrastructure, explored further in the framework for establishing a generative community mesh network.\n\nThe article draws on our experience building and maintaining mesh networks in rural Karnataka- including the Bidar project- to propose principles for how community practices and local engagement can inform the design of climate-responsive digital infrastructure. It asks what \"open\" means when the communities in question have never been centred in conversations about openness, a question also taken up in the Alternatives and Demands in Network Ruins panel.\n\nRead the full piece on Branch Magazine",
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