Aljibe de Conocimiento

Del Muisca, Conocimiento, o sentido = Huichca

• Community networks develop and manage a commons (like traditional communal grasslands or irrigation systems), i.e., the telecommunications infrastructure, that produces an extractable resource from this common infrastructure, which is connectivity (regional or global). Participants develop and manage the network infrastructure commons to achieve social objectives.

• Community networks are not clubs, closed groups, to self-provide their own connectivity, but they are commons infrastructures that are open to anyone in the community. Anyone is welcome to participate to, or benefit from, the commons according to the access and participation rules. Natural commons, including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable earth, deal with the preservation of a pre-existing resource system. In contrast, human-made commons such as irrigation systems, or computer networks in our case, are open as they are extensible by crowdsourcing. As new people and new locations join the network, the reach of the infrastructure expands, and therefore more new people becomes on reach. If the expansion comes with proportional contributions, not only the reach but also the capacity and resilience of the infrastructure can grow.