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Sarantaporo.gr wireless community network event
INVITATION TO AN EVENT Saturday 10 December 2022, Tavern "The Throne", Pythio, Elassona, Greece at 20:30 The Sarantaporo.gr Non Profit Organization...
Tuesday 6 December 2022
Sarantaporo.gr Won the 2nd Place at the IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Challenge 2022
Sarantaporo.gr Non Profit Organization won the second place in the international competition of the IEEE organization on the subject: Connecting The...
Friday 4 November 2022
Messages of gratitude to Sarantaporo.gr Community Network from Elassona Municipality villages' students
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically brought to the fore the need for internet access , for all the residents of our villages, professionals and...
Tuesday 19 January 2021
Open letter to the Minister of Digital Government with proposals for the new Code of Electronic Communications
Sarantaporo.gr and Homo Digitalis contributed their comments in the online consultation , which expired on July 17, 2020, on the draft law on the...
Monday 20 July 2020
Sarantaporo.gr wireless community network expansion to the village of Sykea in the Municipality of Elassona
The village of Sykea in the Municipality of Elassona is another case of settlement, as is the settlement of Akri village, which which lacks access...
Tuesday 28 April 2020
Partnership aimed at enhancing the access of all citizens to the internet
Homo Digitalis and Sarantaporo.gr are officially announcing their partnership to promote and defend digital rights, with an emphasis on the right of...
Tuesday 11 February 2020
Sarantaporo.gr is winner of the European Broadband Awards 2019!
We are thrilled to share some very good news with all of you. Sarantaporo.gr Community Network has been awarded the first prize at the European...
Thursday 5 December 2019
Sarantaporo.gr at the Finalists of the European Broadband Awards 2019
Sarantaporo.gr Community Network is one of the three finalists at the European Broadband Awards 2019 ! Acknowledging the significant impact of the...
Monday 4 November 2019
Sarantaporo.gr at the 85th World Libraries and Information Sciences Conference
From the 24th to the 30th of August Greece had the great honor of hosting the 85th World Congress of Libraries and Information Sciences of the...
Wednesday 4 September 2019
The birth of Kalentzi Community Network in Tzoumerka
Kalentzi is a small mountain village of approximately 350 inhabitants, located in the south of Ioannina Prefecture, 30km from the city of Ioannina....
Saturday 15 December 2018
International conference in Sarantaporo: building the community in community networks
On July 7-9, researchers, business representatives and prominent personalities in the development of Community Networks worldwide will visit one of...
Sunday 1 July 2018
FundAction’s ‘Rethink’ grant supports Sarantaporo.gr expertise sharing to Tzoumerka
Last July we organized a two-day event in Sarantaporo which comprised ICT & Networking training for the locals and a discussion entitled:...
Tuesday 13 February 2018
Sarantaporo.gr Community Network receives ISOC’s Beyond the Net grant
Since over a year now in Sarantaporo.gr Non Profit Organization we have been in contact with Internet Society ( ISOC ) in international meetings,...
Wednesday 31 January 2018
Sarantaporo.gr NPO in Geneva for IGF17
The 12th Internet Governance Forum (IGF17) was held this year in Geneva from December 18th - 21st, with the theme "Shaping Your Digital Future!"....
Tuesday 23 January 2018
Node-owners’ meeting, December 28 2017
On Thursday, December 28, 2017 all the node-owners, volunteers, supporters and new stakeholders of the Sarantaporo.gr Wireless Community Network...
Saturday 23 December 2017
Sarantaporo.gr Wireless Community Network Upgraded!
During the recent months something extraordinary has been happening with the wireless community network Sarantaporo.gr. Starting in May 2017, on the...
Monday 2 October 2017
Series of Seminars and Open Discussion in Sarantaporo village on July 15-16, 2017
Saturday July 15, 2017, 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm Pantelopoulos Cultural Center of Sarantaporo Seminar on "How Networks Work" : Aimed at people already...
Thursday 13 July 2017
Sarantaporo.gr participates in the UniverSSE 2017 international conference
ΣIn the frame of the UNIVERSSE 2017 international conference, Sarantaporo.gr is taking part in the discussion on "Digital Infrastructure as a...
Saturday 10 June 2017
Sarantaporo.gr makes good use of the award from "The People's Trust"
On October 24th 2016, at a special event held at Orange Grove in Athens, Sarantaporo.gr NPO was awarded a prize by " Ashoka Greece " and " The...
Monday 8 May 2017
Sarantaporo.gr close to the Elassona farmers
In the municipality of Elassona, livestock farming is one of the main activities that support the economy of the area. Especially in the area of the...
Monday 10 April 2017
Looking for synergies around the pillar of Sarantaporo.gr community network
Since 2013 I have been actively involved in the community network Sarantaporo.gr, an initiative of people from the village of Sarantaporo. The...
Saturday 8 April 2017
Open letter on Community networks to EU policy makers
Joint Press Release of 35 organizations from around the world Today, 16 March 2017, more than 25 European Community networks and alternative...
Sunday 19 March 2017
A student from Flambouro Elassona excelled in this year's Panhellenic exams without even an hour of private tutoring
We are pleased to host on our website a chat with Ms. Ioanna Boubounara from Flambouro Elassona, a student who has managed to excel in this year's...
Sunday 4 December 2016
Improved weather forecast for the villages of Olympus
For residents, but especially for professional farmers and breeders in the area of Sarantaporo, opposite Olympus, in the municipality of Elassona,...
Saturday 10 September 2016
Watch online the documentary on Sarantaporo.gr Community Network
The documentary about the Sarantaporo.gr wireless community network has been published online . The documentary has been shot over the last 3 years...
Friday 22 July 2016
Sarantaporo.gr gives an interview on ERT1 on "Double Look" - 12/06/16
On Sunday 12/06/2016 we had the opportunity to be hosted at the National TV ERT at the "Double Glance" broadcast, where we presented our work on the...
Sunday 12 June 2016
Documentary screening in Elassona on Saturday 18 June 2016
We are pleased to invite you to the screening of the documentary "Building Community of Commons in Greece. A Documentary about The Sarantaporo.gr...
Sunday 12 June 2016
Documentary screening in Athens Impact Hub on Monday 6th June 2016
We are pleased to invite you to the screening of the documentary "Building Community of Commons in Greece. A Documentary about The Sarantaporo.gr...
Saturday 4 June 2016
The Stories of Community Networks in the House of Arts and Letters - Onassis Stegi
Community Networks Stories - albeit with different names - can be traced back to the early days of the Internet, but come back with much greater...
Thursday 2 June 2016
Participation of Sarantaporo. gr in health conference
On Saturday 28 May 2016 at 17.00-17.10 in the conference "Social Policy and Social Innovation in Health" Dr. Christos Klissiaris, Assistant...
Saturday 28 May 2016
Documentary screening in Sarantaporo village on Friday 6th of May 2016
We are pleased to invite you to the screening of the documentary "Building Community of Commons in Greece. A Documentary about The Sarantaporo.gr...
Thursday 5 May 2016
Exploiting digital technology as a growth factor in remote and rural areas
Postgraduate Thesis: "The Exploitation of Digital Technology as a Growth Factor in Remote and Rural Areas - The Case of the Sarantaporo Nonprofit...
Monday 18 April 2016
