[wsfii-discuss] [CWN-Summit] guifi.net awarded by the government of Catalonia

[Wolfgang Nagele]

Hi Ramon,

great to hear and congratulations. You're really doing great work and
therefor it's very nice to hear that it's also being awarded by your
locals.

Regards,
Wolfgang



2007/11/7, Ramon Roca <ramon.roca at guifi.net>:
>
> I'm very happy to share with all the freenetworkers friends here that
> guifi.net has been awarded by the Catalan Government with the National
> price for Telecommunications category, which was collected in the
> official ceremony yesterday.
>
> Press Release (in Catalan):
> http://www20.gencat.cat/portal/site/CulturaDepartament/menuitem.cc396c23f1b1adc20985bdb1b0c0e1a0/?vgnextoid=a73e20d66949b010VgnVCM1000000b0c1e0aRCRD&vgnextchannel=a73e20d66949b010VgnVCM1000000b0c1e0aRCRD&vgnextfmt=detall&contentid=bbd1a19ddf0f5110VgnVCM1000008d0c1e0aRCRD
>
> This award, which also have categories for Television, Radio and
> Internet, has significant relevance here and is getting attraction of
> the local media.
>
> Here I translate the extract which describes the reasons of why the
> price went to guifi.net:
>
> "The jury awards Guifi.net with the National Award of Telecommunications
> because is an open network, with broadband access and neutral that under
> the respect of the current legislation is capable to provide high level
> features at a low cost, and provides universal broadband access to the
> information age and creates value add services where is deployed. The
> jury has also remarked the already 2.700 online nodes on a network which
> has a high growth rate in Catalonia, and therefore becomes a significant
> contribution to the territory development and to help in relief the
> digital divide."
>
> Personally I would say that this is an outcome of a combination of
> several things, like a good job of lots of people, got a multi-thousand
> member community, using the right approach in terms of networking model
> (participative, open and neutral), and, of course, an outcome of the
> support we've got from the international communities, like the SAX-WSFII
> event we had this summer so please, consider that this award also goes
> to all of you and your communities.
>
> We're planning to use the raised funds of this award (€15K) to create a
> foundation for helping the development of open free networks. We just
> think that this is another small step forward in the long journey of
> getting awareness of the open networking model, which we hope will
> increase over time and and over the world.
>
> Thanks,
> Ramon Roca.
>
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