When the information is not contextual

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To covid. Though they can connect to the world wide web, the fact that these . Networks maintain steady connectivity between local nodes with locally-hosted content is in many ways more . Valuable than their internet access.So how do their community networks steward connectivity and information in . This way? How do they work with their communities to produce local knowledge that feeds .

Their networks?Community networks contextualize informationsol luca de tena, director of zenzeleni networks non-profit corporation (npc), .

Spoke with us from cape town, south africa. Zenzeleni networks supports special database and seeds cooperatively-owned community . Networks. There are currently two community networks, zenzeleni mankosi cooperative and zenzeleni zithulele cooperative.
Together . They villages and are the first legally-recognized community networks that are owned and . Governed by their members in south africa. She described how the problem in rural south . Africa went beyond having access to reliable information.

The public health information regarding covid was . Not even useful given the realities of people, especially given that it was not even . Available in their languages:“so imagine in your [urban] Setting, all the safety] Guidelines that . Are being published by the government and by doctors, are about how to stay safe . When using a communal tap. How to stay safe when taking your cattle out, or . Tending for your crops.

Amidst the anxiety of knowing what to do, what’s real, what’s . Not. , and it’s not even in your first, or . Second, or third language, imagine the strain that creates.”the zenzeleni community networks serve areas where, .
Over the last decade, its network was largely built alongside its energy infrastructure. Its lack . Of public services and infrastructure was a direct legacy of underdevelopment due to the apartheid .