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.