CNX APAC is an annual conference solely dedicated to Community Networks. As Raj Singh pointed out in the welcome, if half the world's population is unconnected, and half the world's population is in Asia Pacific, that is a big local issue! Session 3 is live now, All sessions, including audio and transcripts will be available for download in the archive <https://archive.org/details/cnxapac2020>. ISOC Live posted: "From 20 November to 2nd December 2020 the Internet Society in collaboration with the Digital Empowerment Foundation, and other partners, presents Community Network Exchange 2020 (CNX APAC 2020). The 4th annual CNX APAC will have the theme 'Meaningful acce" [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/cnxapac2020>From *20 November to 4th December 2020* the* Internet Society <https://www.internetsociety.org/regions/asia-pacific/>* in collaboration with the *Digital Empowerment Foundation, <https://www.defindia.org/>*and other partners, presents *Community Network Exchange 2020 <https://cnxapac.org/>* (CNX APAC 2020). The 4th annual CNX APAC will have the theme '*Meaningful access with Community Networks*' with ten sub-themes that will address various dimensions related to meaningful access with community networks and how local communities can leverage them. Webinars will be held online over 5 days, with 2 sessions per day, plus a final closing roundtable. All webinars will begin at *06:00 UTC* *20th November* - - *Session 1: Community Network Models & Best Practices* *Gustaff Harriman Iskandar*, Bandung Center for New Media Arts (Indonesia) *Ritu Srivastava*, Chair, IEEE Working Group Grades of service in rural areas *Senthil Kumar M*, Founder/CEO, Geomeo Informatics (India) *Peter Bloom*, General Coordinator/Founder, Rhizomatica *MODERATOR – **Rajnesh Singh*, Regional Vice President Asia-Pacific, Internet Society - - *Session 2: Access during the pandemic: Saving Democracy, Citizenship & Education* *Talant Sultanov*, Chair, Internet Society Kyrgyz Chapter *Svetlana Zens*, Senior Programme Associate, Digital Rights, Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business (MCRB) *Ananda Gautam*, Program/Policy Officer, Internet Governance Institute (Nepal) *MODERATOR – **Osama Manzar*, Founder/Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation (India) *23rd November* - - *Session 3: Policy & Regulation for Mass Adoption of Community Networks* *Carlos Rey-Moreno*, Co-Lead Networks Policy and Strategy, Association for Progressive Communications (Spain) / Co-Founder of zenzeleni.net (South Africa) – *Achia Nila*, Founder/CEO, Women in Digital (WIDBD) (Bangladesh) *John Jack*, Deputy Chief Information Officer, Vanuatu Government *Teddy Woodhouse*, Research Manager for Access and Affordability, , World Wide Web Foundation, UK (United Kingdom) *MODERATOR* – *Sarah Farooqui*, Research and Advocacy Manager, Digital Empowerment Foundation (India) - - *Session 4: Community Networks as a Model to fight Misinformation & Fakenews* *Waqas Hassan*. President, Internet Society Pakistan Islamabad Chapter *Lisa Garcia*, Executive Director, Foundation for Media Alternatives (Philippines) *Heru Tjatur*, Web Development Consultant (Indonesia) *MODERATOR* – *Osama Manzar*, Founder/Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation (India) *26th November* - Session 5: Gender Sensitive Community Networking - Session 6: Content, Context and Community for Community Networks *30th November* - Session 7: Community Radio & Broadcasting with Community Networks - Session 8: Training & Cadre Development for Community Networks *2nd December* – - Session 9: Partnerships & Collaborations for Community Networks - Session 10: Connecting Indigenous Communities *4th December* – Closing *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/cnxapac2020 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/cnxapac2020>* *AGENDA https://cnxapac.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CNX-AGENDA-2020.pdf <https://cnxapac.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CNX-AGENDA-2020.pdf>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3kKRySs <https://bit.ly/3kKRySs>* *TWITTER #CNXAPAC2020 <https://bit.ly/CNXAPAC2020> @DEFindia @ISOCapac * *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/isocasiapacific/live <https://www.facebook.com/isocasiapacific/live>* (AI Captions) *https://www.facebook.com/DEFIndia/live <https://www.facebook.com/DEFIndia/live>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/cnxapac2020 <https://archive.org/details/cnxapac2020>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/13031/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -