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O3b Satellite Broadband — Google Cell Play?

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O3b Networks delivers broadband connectivity everywhere on Earth within 45 degrees of latitude north and south of the equator.

Our vast coverage area includes emerging and insufficiently connected markets in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Australia, with a collective population of over 3 billion people.

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SatMagazine 2010 Year In Review on O3b

O3b Networks: A far-out plan to deliver the Web (CSM)

Africa, Web Access: What Google's Doing Right (ABC)

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Solar-Powered Internet Hot Spots–Anywhere

Autonomous Internet, Collective Intelligence
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SolarNetOne: Solar-powered networking for anyone

Linux and open technologies deliver the Internet anywhere

Summary: In many parts of the world, the power grid is shoddy, computers are scarce, and connectivity is even rarer. Thus, as with many other modern practices and technologies, populations are increasingly bifurcated into the “computing haves” and the “computing have-nots.” But many are addressing the divide. SolarNetOne is a turnkey Internet hotspot—power, computers, and satellite uplink—you can install virtually anywhere, for less than the cost of a subcompact car.

Phi Beta Iota:  This is not to be confused with OpenBTS and $2 a month cellular service, but it does appear to be promising.  Read more at the IBM developerWorks page for SolarNetOne.

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Range Networks: The ONLY OpenBTS Real Deal

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Today Burning Man, Tomorrow Three Billion Poor

Phi Beta Iota: We have noticed with irritation the number of beltway bandits and think tanks claiming to have OpenBTS well in hand, and vying for the declining government dollar.  There is only one company that has a legitimate claim to offering OpenBTS, and that company's name is Range Networks, featured at DEMO 2010 and a spin-off from Kestrel Signal Processing.

The technical minds behind OpenBTS in its current and rapidly maturing form are David A. Burgess, now Chief Technical Officer of Range Networks, and Dr. Harvind S. Samra, a pioneer of novel signal processing algorithms for exploiting packet transmissions.  We posted information earlier about their stunning success at Burning Man 2010, where Brother Dave Warner of MindTel was again scouting for follow-ons to STRONG ANGEL III and TOOZL.

To create Range Networks, profitable in year one, they recruited as Chief Executive Officer Glenn Edens, whose background at ZeroOne, Sun Microsystems, and Hewlett Packard is extraordinary–he is a peer of John Gage, who showed off the first hand-held Internet server at OSS '92.

Learn more below the line….

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What are the fundamental requirements and building blocks of a distributed internet?

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Michel Bauwens

What are the fundamental requirements and building blocks of a distributed internet?

In preparation for the Contact summit in NYC 20 October 2011, we want to understand the current landscape of projects/initiatives building a distributed internet and the fundamental requirements so we can better coordinate efforts.

ANSWER ONE: Michel Bauwens

Here is a proposed definition of conditions, in non-technical language:

What is a p2p infrastructure:

1) A P2P communications and cooperation infrastructure is a technological and social infrastructure which allows any individual to voluntarily aggregate with others for purposes of communication or the creation of common value

2) A P2P technological infrastructure allows any agent to initiate actions from any point within the network, on the basis of equality of communication (network neutrality) and without any censorship impeding free speech and the freedom of association and cooperation. It is a distributed infrastructure in which elements of decentralisation and centralisation can only serve the efficiency of the network, and not issues of control or profit.

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MIRROR: How to Communicate & Restore Collective Power if the US Government Shuts Down the Internet

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HOW TO COMMUNICATE IF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT SHUTS DOWN THE INTERNET

02-07-2011 8:48 pm – Wallace

Liberty News Online

Scenario: Your government is displeased with the communication going on in your location and pulls the plug on your internet access, most likely by telling the major ISPs to turn off service.

This is what happened in Egypt Jan. 25 prompted by citizen protests, with sources estimating that the Egyptian government cut off approximately 88 percent of the country's internet access. What do you do without internet? Step 1: Stop crying in the corner. Then start taking steps to reconnect with your network. Here’s a list of things you can do to keep the communication flowing.

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PREVENTIVE MEASURES:

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Reference: Wireless Mesh Internet–A List

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Venessa Miemis

16+ Projects & Initiatives Building Ad-Hoc Wireless Mesh Networks

For those interested in alternative internet infrastructures, I’ve been assembling a list of projects and initiatives working to build mesh network solutions, as well as communities and resources around this topic. I’ve also posted this on Quora. Please feel free to add any projects I’ve missed. We’re hoping to understand the landscape of this initiative and how these projects & communities can better coordinate their efforts, in preparation for the Contact Conference in NYC this October 20, 2011.

Projects:

– Open Mesh Project – building a mesh network for Egypt
– Open Source Mesh – group looking at how to build a reliable open source meshing software
– B.A.T.M.A.N. – better approach to mobile ad-hoc networking; routing protocol for multi-hop ad-hoc mesh networks
– Roofnet – 802.11b/g mesh network in development at MIT CSAIL
– GNUnet – framework for secure p2p networking that doesn not use any centralized or otherwise trusted services
– Dot-P2P – a free, decentralized, and open DNS system
– SMesh – seamless wireless mesh network being developed at John Hopkins University
– Coova – open source software access controller for captive portal (UAM) and 802.1X access provisioning
– Babel – a loop-free distance-vector routing protocol for IPv6 & IPv4
– SolarMESH – solar powered IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN mesh network  and relaying infrastructure solution
– WING – wireless mesh network for next-generation internet; partially built on Roofnet
– Daihinia – a tool for WiFi; turns a simple ad-hoc network into a multi-hop ad-hoc network
– P2P DNS – building a distributed p2p DNS system
– Digitata.org – develop an inexpensive infrastructure (low bandwidth internet terminals) for basic internet exposure to children in African countries
– Netsukuku – an ad-hoc netowork that uses only WiFi connectivity and a specifically-built adddress system that allows direct communications between machines without resorting to the HTTP protocol
– Tonika – open source organic network project; administration-free platlform for large-scale open-membership (social) networks with robust security, anonymity, resilience and performance guarantees

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Strategic Phasing Toward World Brain & Global Game

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Phi Beta Iota: We now see a three-phase path for creating the World Brain and Global Game.

Phase  One, which we now recognize must be first, is to create the aggregate people power to overcome secular corruption that is the source of all scarcity and conflict, is the distribution of simple free open source cellular access to the five billion poor. This includes both OpenBTS as a new global standard, and solar-powered mesh Internet that cannot be shut down by governments, corporations, or predatory non-governmental organizations.

Phase Two is not smart phones–an overpriced over-complex toy for the one billion rich–but rather the creation of national, regional, and virtual call centers that can both educate the poor one cell call at a time, and harness the distributed intelligence of all humans in all languages all the time–the back office functions and the desktop analytics of this second tier of intermediate processing are critical to machine speed information sharing and sense making.

Phase Three must be the application of the Strategic Analytic Model in conjunction with the establishment of “true cost” information for every product and service, and the coincident establishment of local water, power, and currency options that begin to dismantle the dysfunctional grid that wastes half of what it moves in the movement.