Sepp Hasslberger: Mexico Leads the Way with Indigenous Co-Op Phone Company Serving 356 Municipalities

This piece on boingboing is short, but at the end you will find a link to a longer article with more information… Mexican indigenous groups form co-op phone company to serve 356 municipalities Telecomunicaciones Indígenas Comunitarias A.C. — a nonprofit telcoms company operated by and for indigenous groups in Chiapas, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Puebla, and Veracruz …

Sepp Hasslberger: Open Source Life — how the open movement will change everything

Sharing information instead of hiding it … that is the big change that will obsolete many of today’s centralised services and bring big change in physical production. Open Source Life: How the open movement will change everything Now consider this: the open-source concept doesn’t have to just apply to software. It can apply to anything …

Sepp Hasslberger: ABC Censors Wi-Fi Risk Story

Report about WiFi health effects aired in Australia was found to be too revealing and was withdrawn, along with a suspension of the reporter… was industry applying pressure? ABC Censors Catalyst Wifi Report, Suspends Reporter, and Embarrasses Itself Why the censorship, ABC? “Wi-Fried”: Why fried? What is the ABC trying to hide by taking down …

Sepp Hasslberger: Magic Mushrooms Cure Depression in ONE Treatment — No Wonder They Are Illegal

Now that would put a kink in the pharmaceutical business plan… Magic Mushrooms Found to CURE Depression in ONE Treatment — No Wonder They Are Illegal Researchers at Imperial College London recently went to great lengths to obtain psilocybin and use it in clinical tests to investigate its medicinal value for treating severe depression. The …

Sepp Hasslberger: User-Owned Networks

User owned networks – direct connection between users and internet access through pooling resources… PittMesh routers are owned by individuals If you have wireless networking equipment in your home that is capable of communicating with your neighbor’s equipment, why not just communicate directly with them? PittMesh is a new community-owned wireless network that runs OpenWrt, a widely supported, well …