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<div class="span6 intro"><p style="line-height:23px; padding-right:20px;" class="">Social WiFi / Mesh Networks may be the only option, if centralize communication systems are being shutdown by the centralized governments. It looks like most of the software is ready to go and there are some hardware projects too. Here are some Mesh Network links.</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Serval is a mature project supporting both hardware and software:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.servalproject.org/" class="">http://www.servalproject.org/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-use-serval-mesh-to-chat-to-other-mobile-phones-without-a-phone-network-android/" class="">https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-use-serval-mesh-to-chat-to-other-mobile-phones-without-a-phone-network-android/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hardware:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://gotenna.com/" class="">https://gotenna.com/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xyg5jd/gotenna-mesh-networking-for-smartphones" class="">https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xyg5jd/gotenna-mesh-networking-for-smartphones</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><a href="https://beartooth.com/" class="">https://beartooth.com/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><a href="https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/using-old-access-points-to-make-a-mesh-network.3346843/" class="">https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/using-old-access-points-to-make-a-mesh-network.3346843/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="">Blockchain based:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.04078" class="">https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.04078</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://decenter.org/en/what-is-the-mesh-network-and-why-is-it-our-future" class="">https://decenter.org/en/what-is-the-mesh-network-and-why-is-it-our-future</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.rightmesh.io/" class="">https://www.rightmesh.io/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.blockmesh.io/" class="">https://www.blockmesh.io/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://ammbr.com/" class="">https://ammbr.com/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Toronto:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4xa3zq/toronto-gets-its-own-free-encrypted-mesh-network-CRTC-meshnet" class="">https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4xa3zq/toronto-gets-its-own-free-encrypted-mesh-network-CRTC-meshnet</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/darknetplan/comments/4h1jx1/toronto_gets_its_own_free_encrypted_mesh_network/" class="">https://www.reddit.com/r/darknetplan/comments/4h1jx1/toronto_gets_its_own_free_encrypted_mesh_network/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Germany:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freifunk" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freifunk</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Oakland, CA:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://peoplesopen.net/" class="">https://peoplesopen.net/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hong Kong:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26285-hong-kong-protesters-use-a-mesh-network-to-organise/" class="">https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26285-hong-kong-protesters-use-a-mesh-network-to-organise/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Legalistic framework:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://picopeer.net/" class="">http://picopeer.net/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Home oriented:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://uk.pcmag.com/wireless-networking/87178/the-best-wi-fi-mesh-network-systems" class="">https://uk.pcmag.com/wireless-networking/87178/the-best-wi-fi-mesh-network-systems</a></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><p style="line-height:23px; padding-right:20px;" class=""><a href="http://www.tidepools.co/" class="">http://www.tidepools.co/</a></p><p style="line-height:23px; padding-right:20px;" class=""> Tidepools is a re-skinnable collaborative mobile
mapping platform for gathering and sharing hyperlocal information and
culture through expressive, community maps and data feeds, enabling
greater connectivity and communication among neighbors and local
organizations. </p><p style="line-height:23px; padding-right:20px;" class=""><br class="">
Tidepools bridges the digital and physical space
of a neighborhood, storing its data on local servers and broadcasted
over WiFi so it can run even without reliance on an Internet connection.
It integrates location-specific civic data in situ, including real time
transit notifications and community safety issues. Community members
can share events, user-created map layers and landmarks, and other local
temporal information, creating a historical geospatial community
database.
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Check out variations of Tidepools <img src="http://www.tidepools.co/img/svg/wild.svg" class=""> <span style="opacity:.5" class=""><b class="">IN THE WILD</b></span> above, to see how Tidepools has been used in <a href="http://tidepools.co/redhook" target="_blank" class="">Red Hook, Brooklyn</a>, <a href="https://rhiwifi.co/status/" target="_blank" class="">Hurricane Sandy</a>, <a href="http://tidepools.co/gezi" target="_blank" class="">Gezi Park Protests</a> in Turkey, or for the <a href="http://tidepools.co/testbed" class="">Allied Media Conference</a> in Detroit. </p></div></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 9 Aug 2019, at 17:06, Josh Levy <<a href="mailto:josh@levjoy.com" class="">josh@levjoy.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">Thanks Arzak, I've been following this and it's awful. How are people in the region communicating with the outside world and asking for help? Is that even possible?<br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">On Fri, Aug 9, 2019, at 11:01 AM, Arzak Khan wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style="font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="direction: ltr; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""><div class=""><span id="qt-OutlookSignature" class=""></span>When critical infrastructure becomes a weapon.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div dir="auto" style="direction: ltr; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""><div class=""><b class="">Large parts of the Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir were subjected to a total telecommunications blackout this week, as the Indian government passed new legislation to reduce the region’s political autonomy</b><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">David Stodolsky, PhD Institute for Social Informatics<br class="">Tornskadestien 2, st. th., DK-2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark<br class=""><a href="mailto:dss@socialinformatics.org" class="">dss@socialinformatics.org</a> Tel./Viber: +45 3095 4070</div></div>
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