Connection, Resistance and Autonomy in Peripheral Communities
In the midst of technical, economic, political and sociological struggles, many communities in Latin America have been marginalized by major telephone operators due to high infrastructure costs and low profit margins. Most are still relying on exorbitant landline and satellite services. Despite the ideals of freedom, collaboration, shared knowledge and more equitable distribution of power that are at the mythical origin of the Internet, it has become clear that we are living within a context of concentration of power over the network infrastructure.
In this session, we will talk about three Latin American community internet/intranet networks that appear simultaneously as the subversion of this process of concentration and as the resumption of ideals of freedom in the network.
