This is interesting and timely for us here in the Philippines. Just yesterday the government <a href="http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=766453&publicationSubCategoryId=63">ordered the country's two leading telephone companies</a> (we fondly call telcos) to <a href="http://noelcolina.tumblr.com/post/15561266667/kill-switch-turned-on-today">suspend mobile services</a> in areas around the huge Black Nazarene procession. If they can use "terrorist threats" to shut down services on a religious procession, they can easily do this again on protest actions.<br>
<br>Sorry, I have no experience and can't do much on app development. But I'm volunteering to run tests once the alpha version is up.<br><br>Gladys<br clear="all"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br>---</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">BS Applied Physics</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">University of the Philippines</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Joshua Marker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joshua@nowhereville.org">joshua@nowhereville.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
A a friend-of-a-friend contacted me about a project she calls 'dovetail'. It's a peer-to-peer message transfer system designed to route messages without reliance on cell phone networks/etc - eg, when cities or governments shut them down to prevent protesters communicating. It uses adhoc wifi and bluetooth to flip messages around.<br>
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Good idea, I was surprised it didn't exist. They're raising money with a kickstarter to get it done - they're serious people, I think UN/etc NGO level stuff, but the idea of needing that much money to write this seemed absurd to me. It sounded like something Hackupy would do in a few evenings. I told her so. She's interested in talking to someone at NB/Hackupy/anyone about it. Anyone interested?<br>
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<a href="http://www.dovetailproject.org/" target="_blank">http://www.dovetailproject.org/</a><br>
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