[DisasterRadio] Comms as a $ervice?

Xavier Fiechter xavierfiechter at gmail.com
Wed Sep 26 14:36:10 PDT 2018


To be honest: I like and dislike the idea at the same time.
The throughput of such a system is limited.
I thought about payments per usage as well – but with the Bitcoin Lightning
Network and in a different context.

On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 11:18 PM <sam at bristolwireless.net> wrote:

>
> Hi all
>
> I've been thinking a bit about Disaster radio in contexts where there
> isn't much in the way of existing infrastructure.
>
> In particular, I've been looking at the pay-as-you-go solar model, and
> how that's been effective in an African context at getting hundreds of
> thousands of people connected to solar energy:
>
> http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/2018/01/29/when-mobile-meets-modular-pay-as-you-go-solar-energy-in-rural-africa/
>
> I'm wondering if this approach could be applied to comms? If you/ we
> were to fund an initial deployment of say a hundred nodes into a
> medium-sized African city.
>
> One or two Disaster radio nodes in that city network are connected to
> the Mobile phone network. If $X per day has been received in mobile
> micro-payments, then it removes the network-wide obnoxious banner-ad
> soliciting mobile payment? Or maybe it removes the annoying two
> minutes forced a timeout on the wifi networks?
>
> It seems a bit counter-intuitive to look at ways to annoy users, and
> just to be clear I'm not looking to 'monetize' this in a way that
> extracts value.
>
> But if city-wide networks could self-fund further rollout, then you
> could be looking at something that could scale in really interesting,
> potentially transformative ways.
>
> After the capital costs of the network had been paid, and enough
> income raised to roll out to the next city, the ads/ timeout/
> annoyance could be permanently removed, and the residents would
> collectively own their own infrastructure.
>
> Thanks
>
> Sam
>
>
>
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