Paper: Community Networks and the Quest for Quality
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Sustainable Development Goals [UN, 2015] outline a transformative vision for economic, social and environmental development which addresses the need for a global society with more justice, equality, freedom and peace. Telecommunications play an essential role in implementing this vision while Internet stands out as an enabler of social change. Such an infrastructure provides means to reduce gaps that preclude people from content access and free exchange of knowledge. Community networks have provided an alternative infrastructure to bring connectivity to those places which lack of commercial interest and have urgent needs to be part of such a transformation. However, the expected social change has yet not fully occurred due to the nature of these networks which lack of resources to provide means for a complete user experience as in other fully funded networks.