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<p>Hi there,</p>
<p>I want to react on the following: "Have we reached a point where
people are entitled to demand connectivity as a fundamental human
right?" I'd answer "No, never".</p>
<p>Indeed, societies need to grow less dependable on the power
infrastructure (including networks), and not enforce its
availability in human rights. Indeed, in the long run, our
civilizations will not be able to keep up with the "always
available" policy for energy, and we should rather learn to have
"some of the lights off" sometimes, as proposed by <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/12/keeping-some-of-the-lights-on-redefining-energy-security.html">this
LowTech Magazine article</a>. The power supply should be
prioritized for vital infrastructures e.g. healthcare, primary
goods delivery and the like, but the average citizen would be
better off if they learned how to cope without electricity
sometimes.</p>
<p>I hope this adds grain to your mill, and wish you bravery,<br>
Regards,<br>
Adrien<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/08/2019 11:29, David Stodolsky
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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
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<div class="">Serval is a mature project supporting both
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href="https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-use-serval-mesh-to-chat-to-other-mobile-phones-without-a-phone-network-android/"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-use-serval-mesh-to-chat-to-other-mobile-phones-without-a-phone-network-android/</a></div>
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moz-do-not-send="true">https://gotenna.com/</a></div>
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href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xyg5jd/gotenna-mesh-networking-for-smartphones"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xyg5jd/gotenna-mesh-networking-for-smartphones</a></div>
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href="https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/using-old-access-points-to-make-a-mesh-network.3346843/"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/using-old-access-points-to-make-a-mesh-network.3346843/</a></div>
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<div class="">Blockchain based:</div>
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<div class=""><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.04078"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.04078</a></div>
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href="https://decenter.org/en/what-is-the-mesh-network-and-why-is-it-our-future"
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moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.rightmesh.io/</a></div>
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moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.blockmesh.io/</a></div>
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<div class="">Toronto:</div>
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href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4xa3zq/toronto-gets-its-own-free-encrypted-mesh-network-CRTC-meshnet"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4xa3zq/toronto-gets-its-own-free-encrypted-mesh-network-CRTC-meshnet</a></div>
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href="https://www.reddit.com/r/darknetplan/comments/4h1jx1/toronto_gets_its_own_free_encrypted_mesh_network/"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.reddit.com/r/darknetplan/comments/4h1jx1/toronto_gets_its_own_free_encrypted_mesh_network/</a></div>
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<div class="">Germany:</div>
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<div class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freifunk"
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<div class="">Oakland, CA:</div>
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href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26285-hong-kong-protesters-use-a-mesh-network-to-organise/"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26285-hong-kong-protesters-use-a-mesh-network-to-organise/</a></div>
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<div class="">Legalistic framework:</div>
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href="https://uk.pcmag.com/wireless-networking/87178/the-best-wi-fi-mesh-network-systems"
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<p style="line-height:23px; padding-right:20px;" class=""><a
href="http://www.tidepools.co/" class=""
moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.tidepools.co/</a></p>
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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>
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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. <br class="">
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Check out variations of Tidepools <img
src="http://www.tidepools.co/img/svg/wild.svg" class=""
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class="">IN THE WILD</b></span> above, to see how
Tidepools has been used in <a
href="http://tidepools.co/redhook" target="_blank"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">Red Hook, Brooklyn</a>, <a
href="https://rhiwifi.co/status/" target="_blank" class=""
moz-do-not-send="true">Hurricane Sandy</a>, <a
href="http://tidepools.co/gezi" target="_blank" class=""
moz-do-not-send="true">Gezi Park Protests</a> in Turkey,
or for the <a href="http://tidepools.co/testbed" class=""
moz-do-not-send="true">Allied Media Conference</a> in
Detroit. </p>
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<div class="">On 9 Aug 2019, at 17:06, Josh Levy <<a
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following this and it's awful. How are people in the
region communicating with the outside world and asking for
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State of Jammu and Kashmir were subjected to a total
telecommunications blackout this week, as the Indian
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Institute for Social Informatics<br class="">
Tornskadestien 2, st. th., DK-2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark<br
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