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COW Mesh

Community Owned Wireless Mesh in Rural Karnataka

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Last updated 1 year ago

COWMesh (Community Owned and/or Operated Wireless Mesh) is a mechanism for communities to take ownership of local communications and reduce the cost of access to information while also demystifing the building blocks of Internet. COWMeshes use WiFI and other low cost deregulated media to share content locally, deploy services, for sub-communities who curate content for their needs and utilise a hyper-media archive architecture for their story telling, publishing and navigation needs or for online classes during the lockdown times of 2020.

Attempt to bring community ownership and delibrate on different technologies available over time started after 2004 Tsunami and has progressed every few years to a more viable state.

Community owned mesh networks and radios began with Namma School Radio where old phone booths were converted into radio nodes, powered by Raspberry Pi devices. The servers were powered by solar panels. It has now been setup with several nodes using Libre Routers and served a number of students attend online classes and facilitated some IT workers from the village to work from home!

COWMesh Maintenance doc

Janastu / Servelots Narrative report for APC 2019
APC Narrative report 2019
Narrative report for last quarter of 2019
Nico LibreRouter Mesh Tutorial Services
Dry run for distributed syncing across devices
DD Tumkur Link
COVID-19 Campaign - Namma Halli Radio
[draft] Local offline internet slices: Bringing pieces of the internet to our communities using WebArchives
Co-planning pad for cowmesh.net <-> tomesh.net
REG4COVID: Pragathi Foundation
lockdown libretalk v.3
Bidar DLL Located Reimaginations report
Designing Inclusive webinar modules for rural communities
Video script for Nils/APC
Cyn asks for a Covid time note
Interim report for APC. collecting points
A case for a Webinar Pi
Messy Meshes: Setting up CowMesh at DDHills
APC-COW-Film versions folder link
APC-COW-Film - doc for comments
COW_CommentsForFinalization
Janastu DA report-2
Mesh acts and networks
APC comments working doc
Locnet Inception 2020
Lockdown dWeb of Stories
Janastu DA report-2
Until the Cows Come Home / Aamne Saamne Pi
Libre Router and the COWs
final COW words
COW Mesh Project
Cowmesh 360
BAIF-Gram Marg Jawhar visit: 20 to 25 August 2019
Making_a_mesh_comic-layout-mesh.pdf
https://pad.riseup.net/p/cow221
Cowmesh Diagram
Marked Diagram