This is one of the best articles I've ever read on the topic of #DigitalColonialism

Digital colonialism is threatening the Global South

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/digital-colonialism-threatening-global-south-190129140828809.html

#FreedomBox #Mastodon #Swecha #FreeBasics #SelfHosting #CommunityHosting

The video of our talk is now available on the FreedomBox PeerTube channel.

Digital Empowerment in Rural India - powered by FreedomBox, XConf 2018, India
https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/3cd45772-e177-4221-a66a-f8a796e0826c

#FreedomBox #Swecha #XConfIndia

Mainstream media coverage of Community Wi-Fi networks powered by FreedomBox.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/events/hyderabad/every-old-computer-is-a-potential-server-that-can-bring-internet-connectivity-to-an-entire-village/articleshow/67833580.cms

#FreedomBox #Swecha

RMS of the #GNU project visits #India and this was his previous video about #Swecha #FSMI @swecha https://peertube.social/videos/watch/90666547-929d-4c37-974c-9c91c086feb1

Digital Empowerment in Rural India - powered by FreedomBox.

Sudhamsh Kandukuri and I presented yesterday at XConf India 2018.

An inspiring story of a grassroots movement where people rejected Facebook's Free Basics and installed low-cost community Wi-Fi networks instead.
A FreedomBox on the network provides most of the essential digital services required, offline.

Slides:
https://njoseph.me/~joseph/Digital%20Empowerment%20in%20Rural%20India.pdf

Video recording: coming soon!

#FreedomBox #Swecha #FSMI #XConfIndia #ThoughtWorks

I have been hosting all of my free software code on #Debian Salsa for the past 6 months. The free software community of my city called #Swecha hosts a GitLab instance too.

Let's try to find some instances hosted by organizations we can trust, instead of simply moving to the centralized gitlab.com which might meet a similar fate as #GitHub in the future.