Zenzeleni

A model for people-owned telecommunications that helps communities to build and control their own phone/data networks, lowering costs and connecting lives!

[Coenraad Loubser 🇿🇦 @dagelf]

#CommunityNetworks are built by the most inclusive, diverse group of people, everywhere from rural @ZenzeleniNet where fast #WiFi came before literacy, roads, water and electricity, to Big City @NYCmesh, where business as usual still falls short of serving everybody. #SwitchItOn

[Internet Society Africa @ISOC_Africa]

The awesome @ZenzeleniNet co-op team @Afchix @UhuruTelecoms

[Carlos Rey-Moreno @CreyM]

@ISOC_Africa team preparing their wireless router for the site visit today to @ZenzeleniNet #ShapeTomorrow #SwitchItOn

[Internet Society Africa @ISOC_Africa]

. @ZenzeleniNet co-op team connecting the unconnected in #Zitholele #SwitchItOn #CommunityNetworks

[Carlos Rey-Moreno @CreyM]

Tribal authority from Mankosi receiving the participants from the 3rd summit on #communitynetworks in Africa. At the place where @ZenzeleniNet started. #SwitchItOn #ShapeTomorrow

[Zenzeleni @ZenzeleniNet]

DAY 5 IS HERE! We are going into the community today, doing final preperations Zithulele here we come! @DtpsZA @ICASA_org @APC_News @ISOC_Africa @jane_coffin #SwitchItOn #ShapingTomorrow #Zenzeleni #wildlubanzi

[Soweto Wireless @Sowug]

Looking forward to the site visit....😀!

[Zenzeleni @ZenzeleniNet]

Woman are very under-represented in policy and regulatory spaces… how can we do more to include women in these spaces - carlos rey moreno Creating Enabling Policies and Regulations for Community Networks @DtpsZA @ICASA_org @APC_News #SwitchItOn #ShapingTomorrow #Zenzeleni

[Zenzeleni @ZenzeleniNet]

Dont be scared of donors - Jane @jane_coffin @DtpsZA @ICASA_org @APC_News #SwitchItOn #ShapingTomorrow #Zenzeleni

[Soweto Wireless @Sowug]

It's all about donor Relationships and Sustainability #Day 4 #SwitchItOn #ShapeTomorrow

[Zenzeleni @ZenzeleniNet]

Good Morning Africa, we would like to share a glimpse of the dedication to the community network summit here, zenzeleni team planning for the site visit happening tomorrow. SO EXCITED! @DtpsZA @ICASA_org @APC_News #SwitchItOn #ShapingTomorrow #Zenzeleni

[Carlos Rey-Moreno @CreyM]

Starting the 4th day of the summit in #communitynetworks in Africa starting with a session on "financing models" @jane_coffin @ZenzeleniNet Machado Works and Muranbinda #SwitchItOn #ShapeTomorrow

[Zenzeleni @ZenzeleniNet]

I would love to see a xhosa child, speak xhosa on YouTube and know that there is nothing wrong with it - Nomsasa (headman´s wife) Mankosi, Eastern Cape, South Africa - @DtpsZA @ICASA_org @APC_News #SwitchItOn #ShapingTomorrow #Zenzeleni

[Zenzeleni @ZenzeleniNet]

"When we first opened our Centre in India, it was the girl child that was climbing the walls to participate" - Ritu Srivastava (DEF India) @DtpsZA @ICASA_org @APC_News #SwitchItOn #ShapingTomorrow #Zenzeleni

[Zenzeleni @ZenzeleniNet]

"We are the pillars, we don´t give up" - Zenzeleni Women Mankosi & Zithulele, Eastern Cape, South Africa - Third Community Networks Summit, Lubanzi EC, SA. @DtpsZA @ICASA_org @APC_News #SwitchItOn #ShapingTomorrow #Zenzeleni

[Zenzeleni @ZenzeleniNet]

Answers included, I charge the phones, i attend the meetings, I cook for the meetings, I sell the vouchers to access the zenzeleni internet and more. @DtpsZA @ICASA_org @APC_News #SwitchItOn #ShapingTomorrow #Zenzeleni

[Zenzeleni @ZenzeleniNet]

We often talk about what should and should not be or can be when it comes to gender inclusion in community networks, but what are women in community workers already doing? @DtpsZA @ICASA_org @APC_News #SwitchItOn #ShapingTomorrow #Zenzeleni

[Zenzeleni @ZenzeleniNet]

Who are you raising your daughter to be? a question being asked at the Community Networks Summit where we are talking about promoting gender inclusion. @DtpsZA @ICASA_org @APC_News #Zenzeleni #SwitchItOn #ShapingTomorrow

[Nicolas Pace @nicopace]

@ZenzeleniNet technical team made the african #CommunityNetworks summit connected, as well as part of the #easterncape rural communities. Congrats!!! @CreyM @dagelf

[Nicolas Pace @nicopace]

Ownership and sustainability can come from the community, demonstrated by @ZenzeleniNet and shared by Jay #communitynetworks #SwitchItOn

[Internet Society Africa @ISOC_Africa]

The word of the day from @ZenzeleniNet at the 3rd #CommunityNetworks Summit-
A COLLECTIVE MIND SET. NO ONE CAN BE LEFT BEHIND!
#ConnectAfrica #SwitchItOn