1. BuB4EU. A contribution to theBottom-up Broadband initiativeBIG IDEA for the EU 2.020 Digital Agenda Commons4EUKick-off meeting November, 2,011

2. Agenda

guifi.net experience

3. BuB4EU Organization 4. The Concept

Commons definition(*):

The commons is terminology referring toresources that are owned in common or sharedbetween or among communities populations. These resources are said to be "held in common" andcan include everything from natural resources and common land to software . The commonscontains public property and private property , over which people have certain traditional rights. In some areas the process by which commonly held property is transformed into private property is termed enclosure.

5. The commons were traditionally defined as the elements of the environment - forests, atmosphere, rivers, fisheries or grazing land - thatare shared, used and enjoyed by all . (*) Wikipedia 6. The Concept (II)

Open Commons as opposed to Enclosed

Private or public property doesn't matter

Public property can be managed or used Enclosed

7. Private property can be Open to all Bottom-up Broadband

Bottom driven initiative to build Commons infrastructures and meet the Top-down

8. The guifi.net initiative Building the Commons from the Bottom

100% Bottom-up Broadband

Goals:

Broadband 4 ALL

9. Createself-sustainableecosystem. Any help might be appreciated as a facilitator or speed-up, however the network needs to be viable by itself, therefore:

Need to get rid from speculative interest or low value-add intermediaries

10. Based on organic growth By developingnew business models , enabling newstakeholders & self-provisioned operation 11. Room forinnovation & cooperationby addressing today's unmet challenges 12. 10 year perspective 2.009 2.001 2.005 2.003 2.007 2.002 2.001 2.004 2.006 2.008 Wireless communities as local experiences EU Directives Telecomm Package, general authorization guifi.net as aggregation ofCommunities, SME & municipalities cooperation Self service provisioning tools Formal P2P Agreements (Comuns XOLN) Network described and available to all Legal entity: Non-for profit foundation National Prize for Telecommunications Contacts with the Spanish NRA 100 6.000 2.000 500 nodes