Problem Statement

Low-income neighborhoods with no internet access are often isolated and do not offer the same educational and professional opportunities to their citizens because they are often financially unattractive for mainstream internet service providers

Target Group

Citizens of los 40 Guasos, Cordoba, Argentina

Proposed Solution

The main objective of the Community Internet Networks project is to develop a community internet network in the low-income neighborhood of "Los 40 Guasos" in Cordoba, through a model of participatory construction adapted to a public with little technical training, in order to guarantee access to the internet for the community and thus to educational and employment opportunities.

Community Internet networks present the following benefits:

• Facilitate the construction of low-cost autonomous technological infrastructures to create Internet networks.


• Enable decentralization of traditional commercial Internet networks


• Generate community among people working for a common good.


• Facilitate access to the right to communication The network of community internet networks have a peer-to-peer contract of free transit and free interconnection, respecting neutrality. The networks have a commercial service to connect with the rest of the Internet, through a contractual relationship that is not peer-to-peer, but provider-consumer.

Hub Activities

Short & Long-Term Goals/Results

This project is expected to create nodes and distribution within the neighborhood to be carried out by the community, with workshops and accompaniment, - Creation of a cooperative - Fiber optic home connection - Connection of public spaces: "Parque Educativo Sureste", schools and central square.

Available Metrics

Impact on 100-115 families

Collaborators