A case for research with and on community networks
Bart Braem, Chris L. Blondia, Christoph Barz, Henning Rogge, Fèlix Freitag, Leandro Navarro, Joseph Bonicioli, Stavros Papathanasiou, Pau Escrich, Roger Baig, Aaron L. Kaplan, Axel Neumann, Ivan Vilata i Balaguer, Blaine Tatum, Malcolm Matson · ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review · 2013
Community Networks are large scale, self-organized and decentralized networks, built and operated by citizens for citizens. In this paper, we make a case for research on and with community networks, while explaining the relation to Community-Lab. The latter is an open, distributed infrastructure for researchers to experiment with community networks. The goal of Community-Lab is to advance research and empower society by understanding and removing obstacles for these networks and services.