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

Wolfgang Nagele mail at wnagele.com
Thu Nov 8 16:56:20 UTC 2007


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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