Desarrollo de una red comunitaria en el Municipio de Buenos Aires, Cauca
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As a consequence of the armed conflict during the last 50 years in Colombia, the centralization of the state and the low population density, there are communities that have been left out of the development of infrastructure and technology, one of places is the municipality of Buenos Aires, Cauca. For this reason, since 2017 Colnodo has been working on the development of a Community Telephony Network local cell phone that reduces the lack of mobile coverage on the municipality, of this initiative currently two BTS are installed in strategic points of the territory, however this network has not been implemented by the lack of permits to operate on the Global System frequencies for Mobile Communications (GSM), technology that the stations use base (BTS). Due to this situation and the lack of wireless connectivity observed in the municipality, in 2018 it was proposed to create a community network of local content and Internet access. This project has been developed together with the support of different strategic allies such as the Association for the Progress of Communications (APC), Telecom Infra Project, Internet Society, Rhizomatica, Frida-LACNIC, Altermundi, NuestraRed, among others. The methodology that has been used for the development of the project has been divided into three stages: analysis and design, implementation and evaluation. This process has resulted in the deployment of the backbone, the transport network, and the access network; the latter currently has the operation of eight internet connection nodes for the end users, these are distributed among the different paths of the townships of El Ceral and El Porvenir. It has been proven that it is possible develop community networks in Colombia that will provide communities the ability to analyze, deploy and maintain its own infrastructure of telecommunications, through the use of free software and hardware, which contributes to reduce the digital gap and improve their quality of life.