COW Mesh

Community Owned Wireless Mesh in Rural Karnataka

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!

Docs

• 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 Maintenance doc

Diagram

• Cowmesh Diagram

• Marked Diagram