In the context of Organic Design, Internet refers to the problem of maintaining IP connectivity amongst the people independently of the large-scale corporate infrastructure. And also to maintaining the information content of the web amongst ourselves via independent caching solutions. This has a lot of crossover with the peer-to-peer concept, but while that article is concerned with the bottom-up distributed aspect of the net, this article focuses on the actual connectivity issues.
Related projects
- Byzantium Linux – The goal of Project Byzantium is to develop a communication system by which users can
connect to each other and share information in the absence of convenient access to the Internet
See also
- Our rural net connection
- Wifi – useful related info here such as “cantenna” Attachments
- Mesh
- Cypherpunkd: MondoNet – a Global Decentralized, Ad-Hoc, Wireless, P2P Mesh Network (Mondonet)
- 10 Projects to Liberate the Web
- IP over Avian Carriers