Roger Baig obté Cum Laude en la seva tesi doctoral sobre infraestructures col·lectives

Guifi·net as an example of a Community Network in their study

On November 18th, at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), the oral defense of the doctoral thesis of Roger Baig Viñas, a voluntary member of the guifi·net project and former employee of the Foundation, took place. The study is entitled Development and management of collective network and cloud computing infrastructures and is affiliated with the Department of Computer Architecture.

The thesis was supervised by Leandro Navarro Moldes, professor at the Department of Computer Architecture (UPC), also a volunteer of Guifi·net  and member of the Association for the Expansion of the Open Network. The study received advice from Ramon Roca Tió, president of the Foundation's board of trustees Guifi·net and co-founder member of the project Guifi·net.

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The thesis, which has received the grade of Cum Laude, represents a research on governance and participation models in the construction of network infrastructures based on the commons model. It explores aspects such as scalability and sustainability. The work analyzes and formalizes various key aspects of organization, financing, deployment, and operation of participatory network and cloud computing infrastructures of collective ownership and management in contrast to the private and non-participatory model. The thesis studies and validates the Guifi·net model as a successful case of citizen initiative in building community network infrastructure, while proposing a model that can be generalized to other infrastructures. 

From the Foundation Guifi·net we congratulate Roger Baig Viñas for his thesis and his tireless dedication to the community and citizen network model. 

We take this opportunity to inform you that we will organize a public presentation in Catalan of the thesis, we will soon inform you of the date and location. 


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