August 2023 Senka HadzicOn 17 August, 2023 we presented the Demo paper, Community Networks powered by Community Currencies, at ACM Compass in Cape Town. The demo showed how a mutual credit-based community voucher or currency integrated with a community-owned network could be used to purchase digital services such as internet access on the iNethi platform. […]
April 2023 Senka HadzicIn April, 2023 we released the “Community Networks Meet Community Currencies” manual with the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), to provide guidelines to those who would like to launch a combination of a community network and a local community currency. APC’s Local Networks (LocNet) initiative in partnership with Rhizomatica is a collective […]
September 2022 David JohnsonFor many years, the current CEO of the Community-based Wireless Network in Ocean View, and a long time resident of the area, has spoken about the need for a community currency. In an interview in 2017, he spoke about the challenge of 90% of the economy leaving Ocean View and not getting […]
8 June 2022 Senka HadzicWe held two workshops in 2022 to introduce the Ocean View community to community currencies. Ganief Manuel, who now runs the local wireless community network in Ocean View had a vision of building a community currency, to help grow the local economy in Ocean View, as far back as 2017. Workshop 1 […]
8 June 2022 David JohnsonThe purpose of this trip was to build the Kilifi wireless network, setup the iNethi platform in Kilifi, discuss integration of Community Inclusion Currencies with the iNethi (to purchase internet vouchers and digital services on the iNethi platform), and chew through some disaggregation and decentralization philosophy on Stand-Up Paddleboards, over fresh […]
Two months after the project kicked off, we started planning our first in person meeting and decided it should take the form of a hackathon. At the end of September Keegan and Senka flew to Kenya and spent 12 days with the Grassroots Economics team in the beautiful town of Kilifi. Survey analysis Similar to […]
Incentivized network and localized services growth with blockchain-based community inclusion tokens In this ISOC funded project, we ask if decentralized blockchain-based economic systems combined with mesh and localized cloud services can incentivize vulnerable communities to create and grow their own networking infrastructure, services, and content and hence become more resilient.Our hypothesis is that lack of […]
The Rasta community on the hillside of Ocean View now has access to low-cost Internet at R20/GB and access to free locally hosted content thanks to the OVCOMM Dynamic community network and iNethi technology. The Libremesh-based mesh router, that is used to connect the community, is powered by wind and solar power as the city […]
The Rasta community on the hillside of Ocean View now has access to low-cost Internet at R20/GB and access to free locally hosted content thanks to the OVCOMM Dynamic community network and iNethi technology. The Libremesh-based mesh router, that is used to connect the community, is powered by wind and solar power as the city […]
10 November 2018The mesh node was installed by OV Comm Dynamic directors, Ganief and Cameron on the 3rd floor of the South block of the Sevens. The node has line of site to the gateway mesh node at OV High School. This is the first mesh node installed outside OV high school, with many more […]