What can you do?

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Erick Huerta Velázquez (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Erick Huerta Velázquez (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Erick is the institutional relations coordinator of Rhizomatica. He works with Indigenous communities in Mexico to build strategies that allow them to build, administrate, and operate their own media.

What can be done?

Decentralization helps restore the diversity and originality of the early internet. That’s why we should support communities’ efforts to build and operate their own networks.

Erick Huerta
Latin America

What happened?

In response to COVID-19 restrictions, several communities in many countries of the Americas created their own networks to access the internet.

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Investments in 5G infrastructure that benefit only narrow segments of the population who are already connected were often prioritized over ensuring connectivity for all.

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