Editing MIND (section)

==Backhaul==
One potential solution for the backhaul problem was suggested by [user:martin martin]: We could use the networking software called freenet to establish secure links between digital villages via the wider internet. While this would require that someone within the mesh to maintain an outboard internet connection, it would allow for the private, secure transmission of information on a global scale. This is essentially akin to creating a functional mesh within the existing structure of the internet. It is immediately viable, and an excellent stopgap. Still, a more permanent, less internet-dependent solution is probably desirable.

A few weeks ago, it came to our attention that the problem of village isolation could also be solved through the use of telecommunications satellites. It won't come cheap, but Kosta Grammatis has started an initiative called [[Buy this satellite]] to acquire just such resources. The plan is to use satellites to connect up each of the individual villages in a global network. Thus the MIND springs to life, a nervous system for humanity. It will offer everyone in the world the chance to communicate with one another, to learn, to rejoice in our common humanity, and to tackle the problems that our civilization now faces on a global scale.