OUR COMMITMENT TO COLLECTIVE CARE

All LocNet Cop sessions, virtual and physical meetings, are intended to be caring spaces and we ask participants, facilitators, interpreters, documenters and everyone involved to hold space for one another and to do our best to:

1. Create a safer space for all participants, in every moment.
2. Extend compassion and kindness to those who are in the same space.
3. Acknowledge the various histories and current lived experiences of who is in the room.
4. Be collaborative and participatory in our approach.
5. Make room for all emotional, spiritual and physical experiences and states.

6. Respect and be mindful of the privacy and boundaries of participants in the room.
7. Remember language diversity and encourage various forms of expression.
8. Embed / Infuse / Root contextual and local politics and practices of self and collective care.

All of us present in the room are responsible to support healthy discussions and acknowledge a diversity of opinions and experiences. As such, we expect everyone in the room to treat one another with respect and kindness.
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ANTI-HARASSMENT

Kindly keep in mind that the LocNet team does not tolerate discrimination and harassment against all those who are present in this room in any form. We will take action in response to harassment related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, nationality, caste, ethnicity or religion.

Harassment includes, but is not limited to:

1. Offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neurodivergence, neuro(a)typicality, physical appearance, body size, race, caste, ethnicity or religion.
2. Unwelcome comments regarding a person’s lifestyle choices and practices, including those related to food, health, parenting, drugs, and employment.
3. Physical or virtual contact and simulated physical or virtual contact without consent or after a request to stop.

4. Deliberate intimidation and attempts of silencing.
5. Sustained disruption of discussion and boundary breach.
6. Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease.
7. Sexual harassment.

Communities of practice

What is a community of practice?

Communities of Practice (CoP) focus on sharing best practices and creating new knowledge to generate advances in a given field.

What is the focus of LocNet's CoPs?

LocNet's CoPs approach brings together people and activities aimed at improving support for key issues of interest to community networks (CNs), addressing the lack of meaningful connectivity, but also other digital exclusions, human rights issues (e.g. anti-discrimination, against oppression) and the quest for a better collective and individual quality of life.

Active practitioner communities

1. Passive infrastructure
1.1. bamboo
1.2. solar energy

2. Active infrastructure
2.1. mesh network technologies
2.2. antennas

3. Sustainability & local services
3.1. time banks
3.2. social currencies
3.3 local services

And this how we roll…

● Regular online meetings
● Webinars and thematic online courses
● Research and documentation
● Design and development