[Chapter-delegates] Lybian Internet Outage

[Joly MacFie]

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Building the Technology Stack for Internet Freedom

Hillary Clinton called for the U.S. to promote Internet freedoms earlier
this week and introduced a $25 million fund for technology companies that
might help with the task. The New America Foundation has already applied for
a grant under the program, which includes a $3.5 million proposal, of which
$500,000 will be funded by the New America Foundation itself.

The mission? To build the technology stack for a distributed, open-source
telecommunications system. The project would combine well-known projects —
such as the open source voice projects Asterisk and OpenBTS – with new
projects for mesh networking known as The Serval Project and Commotion,
open-source firmware to enable routers to create an open mesh network. Dan
Meredith, a technologist at New America, broke it down for me, and said the
hope is to deliver communications in areas where Internet access is scarce,
but also among populations unable to use communications because of
government interference. While this technology stack would have been of
limited use in Egypt, it actually could have helped protesters in the
country stay connected to each other if not to the wider Internet.




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