community owned

community owned
of or pertaining to assets or organisations that are owned and controlled through some representative mechanism that allows a community to influence their operation or use and to enjoy the benefits arising.

For over seventy years, community owned rural telephony networks have flourished in the USA and about 1,000 exist today.


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