[liberationtech] Telecommunications Reclaimed is out!

[Yosem Companys]

Awesome work! Thanks for sharing the news. I am getting my copy.

On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 8:17 AM Félix Tréguer <ft at laquadrature.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> netCommons (www.netcommons.eu), the European project on network
> infrastructure as commons, is proud to announce the release of
> "Telecommunications Reclaimed: A Hands-On Guide to Networking Communities".
>
> This book is a guide on how to build a community network, a shared local
> telecommunications infrastructure, managed as a commons, to access the
> internet and other digital communications services. It was written
> collectively by a group of community network pioneers in Europe,
> activists and researchers during a writing residency week held in Vic,
> Catalonia in October 2018. It was a time of hard work and fast writing,
> but also of discussions in a friendly environment.
> Meant for a wide audience, the book includes practical knowledge
> illustrated by several hands-on experiences – a set of 32 real-life
> stories – as well as legal, technical, governance, economic and policy
> material extracted from netCommons, a three-year-long research project
> supported by the European Commission. Its goal is to guide the reader
> through a set of actions aimed at setting up and fostering the growth of
> a community network, but also, for policy makers, local administrations
> and the general public, to create the right conditions to let community
> networks bloom and flourish.
>
> Download the Open Access book PDF at
> https://www.netcommons.eu/?q=telecommunications-reclaimed
>
> Many thanks to all those who made this possible, and in particular to
> ISOC and APC who supported the book production after the European
> project funding of the writing.
>
> It can be purchased at
>
> https://www.amazon.com/Telecommunications-reclaimed-hands-networking-communities/dp/929511311X
>
> Suggestions of a commons-based or cooperative print-on-demand platform
> are welcome, as we are looking for an alternative to Amazon (choice of
> our publisher) for a print-on-demand solution.
>
> The book's editors, Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay and Félix Tréguer
>
> PS: Sorry for cross-posting!
>
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