Internet Society / Community Networks - Experiences from the Asia Pacific

Half of the world is still not connected, and COVID-19 highlighted how important the Internet has become for work, education, healthcare, and keeping in touch with loved ones. Community networks helped keeping people online during the pandemic in places such as India and Indonesia. 

Osama Mansar, founder and director at the Digital Empowerment Foundation in India, and Gustaff Iskandar, founder of the Common Room Network Foundation in Indonesia, share their first-hand experiences working with these networks. 

Learn how the Digital Empowerment Foundation supported hundreds of communities in India, using human networks to grow the Internet: internetsociety.org/issues/community-networks/success-stories/barefoot-wireless-engineers/