Personal Wireless Networks

= "inviting your neighbours, fellow travellers, or any strangers sharing the same public (digital) space".

Description

Panayotis Antoniadis:

"The presence of an invisible digital space can be announced through physical urban interventions: a visible marker on the device itself, a QR code, a poster, even through artistic performances or direct face-to-face communication.

Anyone in proximity can join without the need for credentials or other identification, except for being there, and without the need of any internet connection.

The ‘occupy here’ DIY network node, developed by Dan Phiffer during the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York.

Examples of successful uses of such personal networks include occupy.here or the PirateBox. Polylogue allows people in proximity to post short messages and see them printed live on a piece of paper that as it advances, gets shredded on the other end. A sort of hybrid, real-world Snapchat.

Soon it will be possible to build and customise a wide variety of such DIY networks using the MAZI toolkit." (https://theconversation.com/diy-networking-the-path-to-a-more-democratic-internet-67216)