From gary.belvin@gmail.com Fri Jul 6 02:33:03 2018 From: Urbanus Z To: cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org Subject: [HacDC:Byzantium] USAID Tech Challenge Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 02:33:03 +0000 Message-ID: <172289280743.3881296.1979505719218076083.generated@mail.pglaf.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0088040386886724453==" --===============0088040386886724453== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Greetings, It's been a while since I've checked back in with HacDc, and I'm impressed=20 with the progress Byzantium has made.=20 There's a tech challenge from=20 www.humanityunited.org. and USAID opening in Feburary that a few of you=20 might be interested in. Here's the problem description.: During acute crises, vulnerable populations are often *cut off from=20 > critical information* and *have limited, if any, ability to communicate*ins= ide or outside of their communities. While there are a number of=20 > existing efforts aimed at *improving information flow* in these contexts,=20 > many focus on the *outflow of information* from communities or rely too=20 > heavily on *existing communications infrastructure* or *basic literacy*. > Which basically sounds close enough to Byzantium to be worth applying for.=20 Let me know if anyone has interest.=20 Some side questions for the tech folks:=20 Does Byzantium work across non WiFi IP stacks? Would it be reasonable=20 to attach it to Packet Radio over HAM radio? Sincerely, Urbanus --=20 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pr= oject Byzantium (Emergency Mesh Networking)" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/hacdc.or= g/d/msg/Byzantium/-/Gz0wUKNBphsJ. To post to this group, send email to Byzantium(a)hacdc.org. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to Byzantium+unsubscribe(a)hacdc.o= rg. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/a/hacdc.org/gr= oup/Byzantium/?hl=3Den. ----- End forwarded message ----- --=20 Eugen* Leitl leitl http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE --===============0088040386886724453==--