In this episode you will travel to a rural area in Córdoba, Argentina.There we will get to know the Quintana Libre initiative. It’s a community network in the township of José de la Quintana, which was developed with the local community by an organisation called AlterMundi. For this story, we talked to Jessica Giudice, a Quintana Libre member and AlterMundi co-founder.
Also in this episode, we talked to Natalia Vinelli, who is also in Argentina, but based in the country's capital city of Buenos Aires. She is an activist in social communication and deputy director of Special Projects at ENACOM – the country’s regulation authority for communication media and telecommunications.
In the last years, Argentina started to develop state programmes to guarantee access to the internet. Through groundbreaking policies, it was possible to considerably increase the number of Argentine community networks.
“Routing for Communities” is a twelve-episode podcast. Here you will be able to listen to the life stories of people who build inspiring community-led projects to connect the third of humankind that is still living offline.
>>> Read the transcript of the episode: https://routingforcommunities.apc.org/
Altermundi: https://altermundi.net
Enacom: https://www.enacom.gob.ar
Credits
This podcast is an initiative from the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and Rhizomatica, produced by Rádio Tertúlia. Script, production and voiceover: Vivian Fernandes. Presentation: Renata Porto. Editing and voiceover: 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: Thiago Moyano. 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.
