RHIZOMATICA

Rhizomatica began in 2009 as a quest to make alternative telecommunication infrastructures possible for people around the world facing oppressive regimes, the threat of natural disaster, or the reality of living in a place deemed too poor or isolated to connect... Rhizomatica supports communities who need or want to build and maintain self-governed and owned telecommunications and energy infrastructure... At Rhizomatica we believe that a telecommunications ecosystem that respects and upholds human rights, while clearly a governance issue, is also about how we as civil society impact upon the creation and operation of the infrastructure that underlies the Internet and cellular network that carry our information to and fro. This perspective has led us to advocate for spaces within regulatory frameworks at the national and international levels that facilitate and support small and local telcos and communities wishing to operate ICT services. This can mean access to funding, to radio..