Community Broadband Initiatives: what makes them successful and why?

Claire Denise Wallace; Kathryn Vincent; Cristian Teodor Luguzan; Hilary Clare Talbot-Ponsonby

doi:10.1145/2768545.2768548

Community Broadband Initiatives: what makes them successful and why?

Claire Denise Wallace, Kathryn Vincent, Cristian Teodor Luguzan, Hilary Clare Talbot-Ponsonby

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Abstract

Although access to broadband has become a facility embedded in everyday life, many communities still have poor or no connectivity, especially in rural areas. The paper considers how some local communities have taken matters into their own hands and set up their own community broadband infrastructure in the UK. The paper examines four case study rural communities in terms of the organisation of broadband provision. It identifies common skills and resources that were necessary in order for these community broadband initiatives to be successful in the form of five capitals: human, technological, identity and financial.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	109-117
Number of pages	9
Journal	Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Communities and Technologies
Volume	C&T'15
Early online date	1 Jul 2015
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2768545.2768548
Publication status	Published - 2015

Keywords

community broadband
social enterprise
social capital
technology
communications technologies

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abstract = "Although access to broadband has become a facility embedded in everyday life, many communities still have poor or no connectivity, especially in rural areas. The paper considers how some local communities have taken matters into their own hands and set up their own community broadband infrastructure in the UK. The paper examines four case study rural communities in terms of the organisation of broadband provision. It identifies common skills and resources that were necessary in order for these community broadband initiatives to be successful in the form of five capitals: human, technological, identity and financial.",

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author = "Wallace, {Claire Denise} and Kathryn Vincent and Luguzan, {Cristian Teodor} and Talbot-Ponsonby, {Hilary Clare}",

note = "ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors would like to thank the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for their support through grant number (EP/G066051/1) Digital Economy Hub and grant number (EP/K003585/1) Communities and Cultures Network+",

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