Aiutare le comunità svantaggiate a espandere l'accesso a Internet gratuitamente

Internet è diventato centrale per la nostra vita, particolarmente nell'ultimo anno. Eppure, metà della popolazione mondiale non ha accesso a Internet e tante altre persone sono limitate a una connettività scadente, costosa e inaffidabile. Nonostante i grandi livelli di investimenti pubblici e infrastrutture private, questo accesso irregolare e ingiusto a Internet persiste. In risposta, sono emerse reti di proprietà e gestite all'interno delle comunità colpite per risolvere il problema dell'accesso e dimostrano costantemente successo. Con una formazione e un supporto minimi, le comunità stanno costruendo le proprie reti locali in modo economico e affidabile con hardware di base e apparecchiature non specializzate.

Progetto Pangea è l'impegno di Cloudflare per aiutare a fornire alle comunità meno servite una connettività sicura a Internet attraverso la rete globale e interconnessa di Cloudflare. Collaboriamo con le comunità per aiutare a connettere le loro reti locali a Internet, gratuitamente.

The Challenges

Communities around the world are increasingly investing in physical infrastructure to promote Internet connectivity, including WiFi antennas, fibre cables. However, even after communities establish local connections, the connection to the global Internet can be prohibitively expensive -- if it can be found at all.

Cloudflare's Approach

Cloudflare’s mission is to help build a better Internet, for everyone. Project Pangea extends the Internet we’re helping to build - a faster, more reliable, more secure Internet - to people who might not otherwise be able to access it. With Project Pangea, Cloudflare can help communities solve the network challenges of routing traffic to and from the Internet on behalf of the local or community network, while also providing state of the art security, privacy, and performance.

Cloudflare launched Cloudflare Network Interconnect in August 2020 to allow our customers to connect directly to our network for improved performance and reliability. Magic Transit and Magic Firewall provide those same customers with protection from malicious traffic like DDoS attacks. While we have used these services to help large enterprises improve the reliability and security of their networks, these same tools, with the same security and privacy protections built in, can be used by underserved populations who would not otherwise have reliable Internet access.

Project Pangea

Cloudflare is offering our suite of network services - Cloudflare Network Interconnect, Magic Transit, and Magic Firewall - for free to eligible non-profit. community networks, local networks, or other networks primarily focused on providing Internet access to local underserved or developing areas. This service dramatically reduces the cost for communities to connect to the Internet, with industry leading security and performance functions built-in:

Cloudflare Network Interconnect

Cloudflare Network Interconnect provides access to Cloudflare’s edge at 200+ cities across the globe through a flexible patchwork of physical and virtual connectivity options.

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Magic Transit

Magic Transit acts as a conduit to and from the broader Internet and protects community networks by mitigating DDoS attacks within seconds at the edge.

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Magic Firewall

Magic Firewall gives community networks access to a network-layer firewall as a service, providing further protection from malicious traffic.

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Industry Support

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“Communities need connectivity to thrive and to connect to schools, to jobs, to opportunity, and to each other. Since 2010, we’ve been working with partners around the world to scale community networks and to empower the people who need the Internet to also build it. This is why we’re excited to see how Cloudflare's Project Pangea can help make these networks more secure and efficient–and ultimately contribute to a more open, globally connected, and secure Internet.”
Jane R. Coffin
Senior Vice President of Internet Growth at Internet Society
"Access to the internet should be open, accessible and affordable to all. Mozilla has long been committed to supporting communities across the world, particularly in rural areas, to bring people online. Today, we are excited to see the launch of Cloudflare's Project Pangea for the approach it is taking to help communities benefit from more affordable access to the global internet backbone."
Alice Munyua
Director Africa Mradi at Mozilla
"At the Association for Progressive Communications, we focus on creating an enabling environment for community networks, supporting those unconnected who want to connect themselves. One of the challenges the community network movement faces is the high costs for secure and reliable Internet–a roadblock that we believe Cloudflare is well positioned to help”
Carlos Rey-Moreno
Co-Lead of the Local Networks initiative at APCovercome
“Access to the Internet is a fundamental requirement of life, and trustworthy and secure internet services are a vital pillar of Digital Trust. From our work on the Internet for All initiative all the way through the new Edison Alliance, the World Economic Forum has expanded access to the internet and spurred global cooperation on the public goods of cybersecurity, digital trust, and good governance of technology. We welcome Cloudflare’s Project Pangea as a valued contributor to a more equal, accessible, and trustworthy global Internet.”
Daniel Dobrygowski
Head of Governance and Trust at the World Economic Forum

Pangea Participants

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"At guifi.net, we welcome the contribution of a leading company such as Cloudflare to the community networks ecosystem. Project Pangea addresses the recurrent blocking factor of Internet access in a meaningful manner (free for the small, at cost for the larger) from a privileged position. Thus, we are convinced that this project can become a milestone in the history of community networks."
Ramon Roca
President of the Guifi.net Foundation
“HUBS is a cooperative of community networks in Scotland with a goal of enabling reliable, fast Internet through affordable technical solutions. By connecting rural areas with Internet infrastructure and services, we can give people in those communities access to and representation on the Internet. Cloudflare’s Project Pangea will help make it easy for networks to ensure affordability and reliability for the community while also feeling at ease that they’re secure and protected.”
Gordon Hughes
Executive Director of HUBS CIC
"As a community-owned wireless ISP based in rural South Africa, we advocate for digital equity and for Internet that is truly affordable. To do this, we work with a range of partners to help make Community Networks become mechanisms for positive change. With Cloudflare's Project Pangea, we see an opportunity to further improve how communities can gain affordable and secure connectivity to the Internet."
Sol Luca de Tena
Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Zenzeleni Networks NPC
"As a group of activists for free community networks in Argentina, Altermundi strives to help solve connectivity problems in populations neglected by the market. Low costs and high performance are necessary for networks to help their communities thrive– which is one of the reasons we're intrigued by the potential of Project Pangea could bring to bridging the connectivity divide that many areas face."
Nicolás Echániz
Founder of AlterMundi

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Eligibility requirements

Project Pangea is intended to help extend more secure and reliable Internet access to underserved communities. To be eligible, participants must be non-profit entities, cooperative community networks, or private or small commercial networks operating in the interest of the community, and must be primarily focused on providing Internet access to local, underserved communities.

Bandwidth cannot exceed 5Gbps at the 95th percentile (Cloudflare may update this figure upon 15 days notice).

Resale of Cloudflare's Internet provisions and security services provided under Project Pangea are for the benefit of the community network only and not available for resale to other networks, individuals, or entities.

Project Pangea may not be available in all jurisdictions.

Technical requirements

At this stage, the program includes two technical requirements.:

The network has its own IPv4 space (v6 support coming soon);
The network has or can establish ‘backhaul’ to an exchange point at eligible Cloudflare public or private peering locations found here.

As the project evolves, we may be able to modify these technical requirements.

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