6 Projects for Internet Access as an Inalienable Right

Internet Is Easy Prey For Governments http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/07/014258/Internet-Is-Easy-Prey-For-Governments
Global net crackdown to shatter ‘utopian’ internet: experts http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/global-net-crackdown-to-shatter-utopian-internet-experts-20110204-1ag3i.html

As the Egyptian protests show, technologies that democratize communications can also centralize control http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/02/egypt-technology.html

(How Was Egypt’s Internet Access Shut Off? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=egypt-internet-mubarak )

(USA: Internet ‘kill switch’ bill will return: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20029282-281.html 
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/01/kill-switch-legislation/ http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/01/30/0044222/Internet-Kill-Switch-Back-On-the-US-Legislative-Agenda
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Cybersecurity
 Bill: https://cdt.org/files/pdfs/20100624_joint_cybersec_letter.pdf
Cf. http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2011/01/Myth-v-Reality.pdf )

(How To Stop Domain Names Being Seized By The US Government http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-stop-domain-names-being-seized-by-the-us-government-110205/ )

(Communicate if Your Government Shuts Off Your Internet http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Communicate_if_Your_Government_Shuts_Off_Your_Internet )

Should Internet access be an inalienable right? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/28/AR2011012806250.html

#Egypt Proves We Need a New Net http://rushkoff.com/2011/02/05/egypt-proves-we-need-a-new-net/ (“And, as we saw when push came to shove over WikiLeaks in the United States, how quickly this very same authority can be used to cut off “enemies of the state” from access and funding.”)

Projects:

1. Dot-P2P

Dot-P2P http://dot-p2p.org/ , an alternative DNS hierarchy that resists censorship. The project aims to create a new top-level domain, .p2p, and name-resolution software that will hook into the normal client DNS resolver. (However, the new software will not interfere with name resolution for traditional TLDs like .com and .net.) Dot-p2p developers expect the .p2p service infrastructure to be mobile and hence flexible under attack; by contrast, administration is currently expected to be centralized. However, the developers would like to see a design for decentralized administration as well.
HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1954391
Cf. Why the P2P DNS project will not work http://sam.sargeant.name/post/2109713451/p2p-dns-wont-work http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1972834

2. Tonika

Tonika http://5ttt.org is an administration-free platform for large-scale open-membership (social) networks with robust security, anonymity, resilience and performance guarantees.
Comparison: http://blog.5ttt.org/2011/01/egypts-internet-fiasco.html

3. Starfish

Goal “Enable the creation of a world-wide user-controlled network of both wired and wirelessnodes based on a distributed architecture.” http://kemenczy.at/files/Starfish%20Concept.pdf

http://kemenczy.at/index.php/starfish

4. Digitata

http://digitata.org plans to provide the resources and information to local communities, NGOs, aid orginisations on how to build a digitata and technical specifications to manufactures who wish to support the principals by creating the hardware. To become a central repository of technical specifications and experiences to help everybody. The ultimate vision to see digitatas grown all over the world where access to the internet and teaching resources is limited, that children around the world have the opportunity to discover technology for themselves. Achieving this by means of low cost mass produced standardised kits which can customised to their environments.

5. Daihinia
Daihinia™ http://daihinia.com/ is a tool for WiFi. It turns a simple Ad-Hoc network into a Multi-hop Ad-Hoc network. Multi-hop Ad-Hoc networks offer a higher level of flexibility than the usual Infrastructure Mode: in Infrastructure Mode all the computers have to be in the range of the Access Point, while in Multi-hop Ad-Hoc networks they have to be within one another’s range.

6. Netsukuku
Netsukuku http://netsukuku.freaknet.org/ is designed to be a distributed, anonymous mesh network that relies only on normal wireless network cards. FreakNet is even building its own domain name architecture. http://www.masternewmedia.org/the-alternative-p2p-wireless-internet-network-the-netsukuku-idea/
Code: http://dev.hinezumi.org/browser/netsukuku/sandbox/lukisi/branches