Strenthening community networks in South Africa

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STRENGTHENING
COMMUNITY NETWORKS
IN SOUTH AFRICA

October 2019 to April 2020
Zenzeleni Networks NPC led
a pilot mentoring project to
develop community networks
in South Afr...

To understand and test methods of accelerating the
seeding and strengthening of community networks in
South Africa and, in...

WHY?
Zenzeleni Networks NPC receives
weekly requests from new communities
that want to
lower their costs to communicate
he...

Zenzeleni approached this mentorship based on their eight
years’ experience working directly with the Mankosi and
Zithulel...

HOW WAS THIS
PILOT DONE?
Mentoring process
Through a mentoring process that
enabled access and application of
expert input...

WHICH WERE THE
COMMUNITIES INVOLVED?
Rural and low income peri-urban
communities in South Africa in
the Western and Easter...

These are communities
That struggle with
reliable power
connectivity
Where economic
sustainability is
rarely experienced
i...

HOW WAS THE
MENTORSHIP
STRUCTURED? Uses of the internet
Community networks
social enterprise design
Network technological
...

The knowledge
sharing and exposure
was carried out through
Co-designing with expertsWebinar workshops
Site visits
to commu...

WHICH ACTIVITIES WERE DEVELOPED?

Pre-mentorship:
Fourth African Summit on Community Networks
(October-November 2019)
Before the mentorship pilot started, d...

Selection of communities
(November 2019)
Five communities that met the selection criteria answered
the call for mentorship...

The mentorship programme was designed to
guide mentees through a learning process that
resulted in a practical product. Th...

Programme design:
Responding to challenges4
Access to telecommunications sector information
Access to business and ﬁnancia...

Programme design:
Applicable expert input5
Training webinars
Business sustainability to develop community
network seeding ...

Programme design:
Site visits to community networks6
Three different community networks were
visited, based on group discu...

Programme design:
Community engagement7
Mentees were asked to ground the new ﬁndings and the
expert input throughout the m...

WHAT ARE THE KEY LESSONS
LEARNED FROM THIS PILOT?

There is a huge interest
from communities to
COLLABORATE AND COME
TOGETHER.

Community engagement
and buy-in takes time, because
it is about building trust.
COMMUNITY READINESS IS
DEVELOPED OVER TIME.

and other systemic issues
affecting under-serviced
communities where community
networks can bring high value,
are present ...

affect mentees and should be understood
in order to effectively design the course,
and to contemplate what is feasible
and...

affect the learning process for both mentees
and the communities of which they are part.
The capacity to incorporate new c...

as a group makes a big difference
to learning, as language, cultural
and social barriers are lowered,
and the grasping of ...

in addition to the materials, expertise
and support provided. Mentees need
time to assimilate, question and test
concepts ...

throughout the programme.
Therefore, it is important to
be realistic as to how many
communities a single
mentor can carry....

as it is easier to translate and for second
language speakers to understand. This
helps the mentees focus on their skills ...

It is important to most mentees to
RECEIVE A CERTIFICATE AT
THE END OF THE PROGRAMME.
In these communities it is rare for
...

WHERE ARE THE MENTEES’
COMMUNITIES AT NOW?

Growing appreciation and
call for more sharing of
work, resources and effort.

Communities have the necessary
information to take an informed next
step, and there is a commitment to
take it, counting o...

More work is required to deﬁne the
set-up to deliver a shared services
approach, as it will affect the ability
to deploy a...

“This for me is very exciting.
It means I am learning, it
means I am growing.”

“The workshop instilled some level
of hope to the unemployed youth.”

“If the [community networks] ideology is to be
followed dogmatically, then the unconnected
connecting themselves will take...

“We have all learned that working together
as community networks and leveraging
resources from one another can only
make u...

This pilot project was funded through the Association for
Progressive Communications and the UK Government's
Digital Acces...

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