Steve Song: Networking for the Unexpected: Building resilience and innovation with Village Telco

What are the desirable qualities in a communication network?
Affordability, ubiquity, reliability, privacy, convenience. In the
developing world, mobile networks are delivering telephony and
broadband where it has never gone before but often at the expense of
the above qualities. Village Telco, an Open Source, DIY,
telco-in-a-box puts the power of telephone and broadband
infrastructure in local hands and offers a complementary alternative
network to conventional telecommunications services.