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October 11, 2022

Building Community Owned Decentralized Networks in rural India | Sanketh Kumar | IndiaFOSS 2.0

In the talk we will be mostly sharing stories from our experiences while connecting the unconnected in remote rural India - especially about our ongoing efforts in building a community owned network in few adivasi villages in Odisha.

FOSS aspects of our talk:

Why connectivity infrastructure as commons is essential in reducing digital divide and how FOSS plays a major role in this

Significance of building offline-first federated networks

Significance of Open Hardware and Open Software in remote rural India

Role of OpenWRT based routers in building our network

Usability of existing FOSS solutions in these regions

Calling on FOSS community to contribute to our efforts

About Us

COWDeNet – Community Owned Decentralized Networks. COWDe, phonetically similar to Kaudi, which is a traditional quilt made by stitching together smaller pieces of used fabrics. Through COWDeNet, we envision a coming together of various community networks that we are involved with, to form a larger fabric of internet, or dWeb.

Our WIP (Work In Progress) website - https://cowde.net/

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