Building sustainable community networks: lessons from Italy
August 14, 2007 at 8:24 PM by Esme Vos
Gigi Tagliapietra, who founded Italy’s first community network 13 years ago, shares his thoughts on the qualities needed to sustain civic networks through changes in political administrations and challenges to funding.When Gigi Tagliapietra speaks, I listen.
Gigi has been on the forefront of community networking since he launched MediaTeca, Italy’s first community computing lab and its associated network, Onde.net, in his hometown of Desenzano13 years ago. Gigi was one of Italy’s first systems integrators. Now retired, he remains involved in IT…
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