About two years ago, news reports described the State Department-funded
project of Sascha Meinrath as a way for overseas dissidents to overcome
repressive regimes that try to censor them by shutting down the
internet. This week a variation on the software he helped design will
launch here in the United States. It is called Commotion Wireless. You
can download the program on your cellphone or laptop computer in order
to create what is called a "mesh" network that allows you to share
Internet access with other devices on the network. “It challenges this
business model that everyone has to buy their own Internet connection,
and it really puts forth this notion of, ‘Why don’t we share resources?’
We can share them across our neighbors, we can share them within our
offices, we can share them across entire cities,” says Meinrath,
director of the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute.Video
Source: Democracy Now!
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