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Building Networks

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Does OTI build networks?

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No. OTI creates resources and tools for communities to design, build and govern their own communications tools and infrastructure, and conducts hands-on trainings with people and communities building their own networks.

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Does OTI build networks? How does OTI decide where to work? How does it decide where to deploy Commotion? How does OTI decide who to work with in those countries? And how does OTI connect with people on the ground?

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OTI does not deploy Commotion. OTI supports the work of communities by providing trainings, tools, and resources. OTI looks to community partners to decide how they want to engage and how they want to use our tools. We follow their lead.

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We have partnered with individuals and groups who work on a wide range of social justice issues. OTI promotes affordable, universal, and ubiquitous communications through partnerships with communities, researchers, industry, and public interest groups, and is committed to maximizing the potentials of innovative open technologies. In the field, OTI works directly with communities by using the tools of project-based learning and participatory design to build and support community controlled tech infrastructure as means of self-governance. Community partners decide how they want to engage and how they want to use our tools. OTI only lists partners and projects that would like to be listed on our website.

I read about {Community Network X} - how can I do that in my community?

OTI and partners have developed a set of learning tools - the Commotion Construction Kit - to help other communities in thinking about how to build sustainable community networks. The CCK is freely available on our website (http://commotionwireless.net/docs/cck) and is continually updated along with the Commotion software. To start, we recommend working with other individuals and groups in your community and starting with the Planning section. If there is a specific network or case study that you think is a model for your community, you should definitely join the Commotion discussion email list to connect directly with the groups that have done those implementations.