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Many Internet users see the network as a system that tries to be open, convivial, wide-ranging in thought, and conducive to building bonds among different types of people. No movement today reflects these ideas better than community networking. It consists of a broad range of organizations that encourage membership by everyone in a geographic region, or all the members of a dispersed ethnic group such as American Indians.
To create this article, I asked seven leaders of the movement, in the United States and elsewhere, to talk about government policy in relation to community networks.