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Boquerón Community Network

Part of the NANUM initiative to connect Indigenous women in the Chaco. The Fa’ay Lhavoquey—the Women Carob Harvesters Group—overcome digital isolation by building community networks to benefit native Nivaclé communities. With access, they’ve expanded their carob flour business, improved their savings, and expanded access to educational materials in the local schools. Thanks to them, over a thousand Nivaclé people are connected.

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Puesto García Community Network

Puesto Garcia community network is also part of the NANUM—Connected Women initiative, offering Internet access to nearly 50 households of Indigenous women in the Chaco region of Bolivia. The network offers a 30mbps bandwidth, runs on wireless technology, and provides digital opportunities for local women to market artisanal community-made products.

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Veryvine Community Network

This community network is not active.

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Santa Rosa Community Network

This community network is part of the NANUM—Connected Women initiative, offering Internet access to nearly 50 households of Indigenous women in the Chaco region of Paraguay. The network runs on wireless technology, connecting a local school and hospital. The network offers digital literacy training to women, helping them publish local content and news. This helps them promote local farming businesses and publish their native culture and oral and written language.

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Reyeshogpan Community Network

A pilot effort in 2020 by the community of Reyeshogpan, Cuetzalan del Progreso, Puebla led to the development of an LTE Mobile Community Network Service by Telecomunicaciones Indígenas Comunitarias. The Mobile LTE final services were later implemented in Mexico and Colombia.

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After several years of stagnation, Bolivia’s Internet Exchange Point (IXP), PIT Bolivia, now doubles its exchanged traffic every six months.

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The first-ever Chapterthon in which only Latin America and the Caribbean chapters participated under connectivity as the common theme.

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RedINC Community Network

RedINC community network (short for Indigenous, Black, and Peasants Network in Spanish) serves nearly 50 households living in a pacified zone of Colombia. The network runs on a mobile 4G technology offering a 20 Mbps bandwidth to keep this small community online, and provides Internet access to local homes and a local school.

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