consolidated local telecommunications service

2011 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Local Telecommunications

scholarly journals Rural Uncommoning

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-50
Author(s):  
Nicola J. Bidwell
Keyword(s):  
Global South ◽  
Community Networks ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Communal Identity ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Rural Governance ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Local Telecommunications

Shared use of small-scale natural commons is vital to the livelihoods of billions of rural inhabitants, particularly women, and advocates propose that local telecommunications systems that are oriented by the commons can close rural connectivity gaps. This article extends insights about women's exclusion from such Community Networks (CNs) by considering ‘commoning’, or practices that produce, reproduce and use the commons and create communality. I generated data in interviews and observations of rural CNs in seven countries in the Global South and in multi-sited ethnography of international advocacy for CNs. Male biases in technoculture and rural governance limit women's participation in CNs, and women adopt different approaches to performing their communal identity while using technology. This situation contributes to detaching CNs from relations that are produced in women's commoning. It also illustrates processes that co-opt the commons in rural technology endeavours and the diverse ways commoners express their subjectivities in response.

Local Telecommunications

1984 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 159
Author(s):  
R.R. Teesdale
Keyword(s):  
Local Telecommunications

Competition in Local Telecommunications

2005 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Swann ◽  
David G Loomis
Keyword(s):  
Local Telecommunications
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