Open Garden Foundation
= a San Francisco-based startup dedicated to net neutrality and internet access for everyone.
URL = http://opengarden.net/about-us/
Open Garden, a product of the Open Garden Foundation, provides mesh networking through an app that creates a wirelesh mesh network, enabling everyone to have faster downloads, and stronger and cheaper connectivity. [1]
Description
"Open Garden advocates principles of Net Neutrality, enhancing the wireless broadband Internet, equalizing knowledge access and promoting innovation.
To follow our mission, we are developing a protocol, “the Open Garden Mesh Protocol” that optimizes communications between wireless devices and access to the Internet. Open Garden Mesh Protocol enables people to create their own network and to become an extension of the internet. The network will grow with the amount of people using Open Garden application on their mobile devices. Open Garden is also partnering with the handset and hardware manufacturers to embed the Open Garden application for the benefit of their users.
Our technology is offering solutions to the mobile telco industry by avoiding congestion of wireless data networks and providing a better Internet access through carrier aggregation, peer2peer and mesh technology.
On a longer term vision, Open Garden is willing to enable a free wireless broadband Internet in rural zones to improve access to knowledge, education and stimulate innovation and entrepreneurship." (http://opengarden.net/about-us/)