Setting up of the base-station of the Community Network at Channapatna Health Library, Channapatna.

Women Health Navigators of Channapatna checking out the base-station of the Community Network.

<aside> 📎 Our aim is to enable local communities and groups of people to be less-reliant on corporate network and data infrastructures, particularly for management of their knowledges and knowledge-linked economies.

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In 2019, we were part of a collaborative effort to catalyse community-network as an underlying infrastructure for local archives of rich creative, but oral practices of Bidar, supported by Association of Progressive Communication (APC).

Drawing inspiration from this engagement, and eith the support of Association of Progressive Communication and the Numun Fund, we have set up a community network enabled digital infrastructure that supports the community health knowledge work done by the women Health Navigators.

We focus on enabling the communities to not only use such infrastructure, but to co-imagine, design and implement, as a way to enhance their capabilities of using, fixing and maintaining, while ushering in a sense of ownership.