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Community-Centred Connectivity Survey

Greetings. Welcome to the Community-Centred Connectivity Survey!

This questionnaire should take no longer than 15 minutes.

Background
Community networks and related community-centred connectivity initiatives are relatively new, and very little is known about what is happening in this space, especially as each country is different from the other, and little work has been done to understand these projects in depth. This is precisely the gap that this survey aims to fill as part of the research work that the APC LocNet project is conducting in order to help fulfil its mission of supporting community networks in the global South. For further information see: LocNet - Connecting the Unconnected.

The responses to the short set of questions here will help APC/LocNet map the community-centred connectivity providers operating around the world and better understand the services and benefits they provide, and ultimately the impacts they are having on local communities. This work will also help to ensure that national policies and regulations provide an enabling and supportive environment for community networks.

Aiming to capture the diversity of approaches to using digital technologies in remote and rural areas in the global South, the survey will help to inform us all of the different types of strategies people have adopted to solving their connectivity challenges. In this respect we are looking to gather data at the level of the grassroots initiatives that are based in the field.

We also hope that the results of this study, which we will share with you as soon as a draft is available, will help to inform your own strategic planning and institutional development. To further support this process, we would like to conduct follow-up interviews if you agree.

All information received in this survey will be kept in full confidentiality, and we will only be publishing aggregated results based on merged data from all the networks studied. In future we may publish a map with indications of the presence of community network projects in a particular country.

This survey is for individual/independent local initiatives. If you are providing data for multiple local initiatives, then please submit the data for each network in a separate questionnaire. You can save your work until then, after which the survey will still be available but your data may not be included in the report we plan to publish.

There are 18 questions in this survey.
Survey
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A. I agree that the data I submit here may be used (in an anonymized aggregated form) in APC reports.
(This question is mandatory)
B. APC is considering publishing the general location of community networks on a map. Please indicate here if you would like this for your network.
(This question is mandatory)
C. Are you willing to have an online interview with us about your initiative?
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1. What is the name of the organization that is responsible for the initiative?
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2. What is the name of your initiative/project?
3. Web link/URL of the project, if available, or the organization.
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4. Which country is the project located?
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5. What is the name of the village/settlement and/or the nearest town?: (You can include a maps pin or GPS coordinates if you have them)
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6. When did, or when will the project start?:
Open date/time selector
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7. Is the project:
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8. What are the services provided or being planned to be provided?
If the answer to the above included “other”, please provide more details about the services your community connectivity initiative provides / will provide.
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9. How are the project's services provided? (In the case of planned or ceased projects, please indicate how the services will be/used to be provided).
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10. From 0 to 10, please rate how strongly your connectivity initiative adheres to the following principles (0=not at all, 10=completely).
1. Is provided in rural, remote and/or marginalised communities
2, Allows the community to shape the local connectivity they build and use in ways that are positive for the well-being of the community while actively minimising the risk of potential harm to the community
3. Allows the community to shape the local connectivity they build and use in ways that are affordable, aiming to strengthen local economies, rights, languages and cultures
4. Allows the community to shape the local connectivity they build and use in ways that reflect the interests and relationships within the community, including when the community does not directly provide the physical infrastructure and services itself
5. Allows the community to participate in deploying and operating the infrastructure they build
6. Adds value to people’s personal, social, political and/or economic lives, particularly people in the community who are poorer and more marginalised than the majority,
7. Takes into account dynamics of power and gender
8. Strives for operational and financial viability/sustainability, local ownership and community participation in the governance of the network
9. Is interested in being a part of a broader national and global ecosystem that shares experiences and supports initiatives with similar principles
10. Supports collective action to influence, diversify and shape wider internet access markets, including building awareness and use of environmentally and socially sustainable solutions.
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11. What motivated your organization to begin this initiative?
(This question is mandatory)
12. How is the local community involved in the initiative?
13. Do you know other initiatives similar to yours? (We would appreciate it if you could name them, and provide a contact to follow up with them) or please feel free to forward the survey link to them.
 
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