This year, Rural ICT Camp carries the theme “Meaningful Community Centered Connectivity Initiatives.” The theme follows up on the National Consultation on CCCI for Meaningful Access, organized by ICT Watch and the Rembuk Nusa coalition in Jakarta on 19 November 2024.
Rural ICT Camp 2025 will bring together representatives from the National School of Community Network (NSCN), operating in 10 locations across 8 provinces in Ind nesia: Pulo Aceh (Aceh Province), Kasepuhan Gelaralam and Ciracap District (West Java), Tembok Village (Bali), Sukadana Village (Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara), Mata Redi Village and Don Bosco Training Center (East Nusa Tenggara), Taliabu Islands (North Maluku), Maros Regency (South Sulawesi), and Ngata Toro (Central Sulawesi).
Rural ICT Camp 2025 will present a series of activities, including:
● Book Launches
○ Beginner’s Guide to IoT and AI Integration – a straightforward and hands-on reference for getting started with IoT projects and AI integration.
○ Technical Manual for IoT-based Marine Water Quality Monitoring – a practical field
guide for designing, deploying, and operating the marine water quality monitoring system.
● Mini Exhibition: Co_LABS & National School of Community Network
A small exhibition showcasing sensor prototypes used in the Co_LABS program in Pulo Aceh and Maros, along with photo and video documentation from National School of Community Network training activities.
● Co_LABS Program Dissemination
Sharing lessons learned from appropriate technology (AI, IoT, and open data) for climate resilience, including Q&A and hands-on practice sessions.
● Policy Dialogue
A multi-stakeholder discussion on policies, governance, financing schemes, and scaling up community network models in rural and remote areas.
● Gender Equality & Social Inclusion (GESI) Session
Inclusive and safe approaches to ensure women, persons with disabilities, and marginalized groups can participate and benefit equally.
Rural ICT Camp 2025 continues the tradition of previous camps held in Kasepuhan Ciptagelar (2020–2021), Tembok Village–Bali (2022), Pulo Aceh (2023), and Ciracap–Sukabumi (2024). This initiative is part of ongoing efforts to accelerate equitable access to the internet and digital technologies, and to promote meaningful use of internet access in rural and remote regions of Indonesia.
Contact: Tisha Amelia (Common Room)
Email/WhatsApp: [tisha@commonroom.info / 08195523325]
About Common Room
Yayasan Mitra Ruang Kolektif—also known as the Common Room Networks Foundation (or simply Common Room)—is a non-profit organization registered in 2006 that serves as an open platform for developing creative and innovative potential. The organization began as a project of the Bandung Center for New Media Arts, which ran multidisciplinary arts programs and activities in Bandung until 2006.
Initiated as a platform to bridge dialogue and interaction, foster multidisciplinary collaboration, and connect diverse individuals, Common Room has since engaged co munities from a wide range of social and cultural backgrounds. From its early development, Common Room has been committed to advancing freedom of expression and community empowerment through the arts, culture, and the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and digital media.
Since 2013, Common Room has been actively involved in developing an urban–rural collaboration platform pioneered with the Kasepuhan Ciptagelar Indigenous community. The main objective of this platform is to cultivate creativity, innovation, social entrepreneurship, and cooperation among urban and rural communities in both local and international contexts.
Website: commonroom.info