In this episode you will get to know the Amadiba Community Network, a project that has been strengthening the community's fight to defend their land, the coast of their country and their people, through access to the internet. Guiding us on this journey is Lungelo Mtwa, from Pondoland, a region on the coast of South Africa bathed by the Indian Ocean. Also in this episode, we interviewed Mike Jensen, an internet pioneer working at the Association for Progressive Communications (APC). We’ll talk about ideas for thinking about connectivity and community networks.

“Routing for Communities” is a twelve-episode podcast. Here you are going to listen to life stories of those who build innovative and bold community-led projects to connect the third of humankind that is still living offline. 

>>> Read the transcript of the episode: https://routingforcommunities.apc.org/ 

Credits

This podcast is an initiative from the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and Rhizomatica, produced by Rádio Tertúlia. Script and production: Vivian Fernandes. Presentation: Renata Porto. Editing: Beatriz Pasqualino. Sound: Lua Gatinoni. Coordination: Beatriz Pasqualino and Débora Prado. Consulting Board: Bruna Zanolli, Cynthia El Khoury, Daniela Bello, Flavia Fascendini, Kathleen Diga ​​​​and Nils Brock. Translation: Marcio Miranda. Illustrations: Gustavo Nascimento. Webdesign: Avi Nash and Cathy Chen. 

This production was supported by the “Connecting the Unconnected: Supporting community networks and other community-based connectivity initiatives” project with support from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida); and also by the project “Supporting Community-led Approaches to Addressing the Digital Divide” with support from the UK Government’s Digital Access Programme.