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Session Nine | Oct 4

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Sustainability and Spectrum


About the Mentors


Adriana Labardini Izunza

Adriana Labardini Inzunza obtained her law degree cum laude from Escuela Libre de Derecho in Mexico City in 1987 and her master’s degree (LLM) from Columbia University in New York, on a Fulbright scholar in 1991. For four and a half years she served as Commissioner at the Federal Institute of Telecommunications (IFT), the Mexican independent regulatory body and competition authority for telecommunications and broadcasting industries. Currently an independent public interest lawyer and consumer rights expert, is collaborating with Rhizomatica promoting and advocating for sustainable, self-managed community networks to bridge the digital divide, promote rural and indigenous connectivity and media. She is also a founder of Conectadas a network of women in the ICT industries working for gender equality in Mexico.


JOSEPHINE MILIZA

Josephine Miliza is a network engineer passionate about enabling communities in Africa to leverage digital technologies for socioeconomic empowerment. In 2016 she started working as the project manager for TunapandaNET, a community network in Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya that focuses on promoting access for all, adoption of digital technologies and ICT capabilities for the local community. She is also the founder of Tech Dada, a women-in-tech initiative within Tunapanda Institute that seeks to educate, equip and empower young women and girls to become innovators and agents of change in the 21st century. She has become a champion for community networks in Africa, participating in organising the Africa community networks summit, awareness building, and capacity building forums. Her current interests are in bottom-up sustainable connectivity models and creative approaches to an enabling environment that fosters entrepreneurship and innovation, especially for youth and women in Africa. As the Africa regional coordinator Josephine is working under the Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet). Josephine is the regional coordinator nominated by KICTANet, the project implementing partner in Africa.


ABOUT THE SESSION

In this session you can expect to leave the room with the below takeaways:

  • the complexity of spectrum
  • the nature and works of the regulating body
  • access to spectrum and the models strategies for spectrum advocacy


OBJECTIVE

The session intends to provide some advocacy tools to participants around spectrum access as a public good and an enabler of universal access and inclusion. Based upon a survey of topics of interest by mentees, these are the topics of top interest:

  • Basic principles around spectrum and spectrum management and what does it have to do with sustainability.

  • Top innovations in spectrum management that can support CNs access and backhaul


Therefore, we will have an open flow dialogue on these issues.


SESSION PLAN


1. Introductions
2. Interactive Dialogue on:

  • Basic principles around spectrum and spectrum management.

  • Top innovations in spectrum management that can support CNs access and backhaul


3. Final Remarks



RESOURCES


We encourage participants, to the extent possible, to read this entry from ITU before the session


https://digitalregulation.org/spectrum-management-key-applications-and-regulatory-considerations-driving-the-future-use-of-spectrum/



See materials in this folder, plus:

https://digitalregulation.org/overview-of-national-spectrum-licensing/

https://www.networkworld.com/article/3560993/what-is-wi-fi-and-why-is-it-so-important.html

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/features-and-news/innovation-through-spectrum-sharing

https://www.thewirereport.ca/2022/09/30/spectrum-unceded-how-indigenous-people-are-fighting-for-digital-sovereignty-in-a-wireless-world/









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