In times when most governments scrambled and stumbled to take life-saving, effective and empathetic steps towards providing reliable and immediate health and education services while in a complete shutdown, communities stepped in to care for themselves and their neighbours. The spectrum of community networks activities covered a wide range of life-saving and dignifying actions and services through providing communication, health information, facilitating telemedicine applications, setting up education services, expanding internet access and reach, to preventing and tending to online and offline gender-based violence. Community networks proved that infrastructure is only as robust as the more caring of its communal nodes. In this second year of living in times of unequal global health crisis, we are glad to present this special edition of GenderIT.org: Infrastructures of resistance: Community networks hacking the global crisis and to share with our readers how intersectional approaches in community networks have been transforming these realities by embodying infrastructures of resistance and bringing hope to their communities.

Author

Various (GenderIT.org)

Year Published

2021

Country / Region of focus

Africa

Complexity

Addresses basic elements of the subject, no prior knowledge is required

Keyword

Network Type

Community-Based Network

License Type

Other

Item Type

​Website

Language

English

Specific Subject - Social

​Gender inclusion and leadership

Specific Subject - Technical

N/A

Specific Subject - Economic

N/A

Specific Subject - Regulatory

N/A

Gender Perspective

Yes

Accesible to people with visual or hearing impairments

No

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