🌱 What role can #CommunityNetworks play in advancing #ClimateJustice?
Join us for "The Catalytic Effect: Community-Centred Connectivity for Climate Justice," a Tech Together #webinar exploring how community-led connectivity can strengthen resilience, support environmental stewardship and contribute to more equitable futures.
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📅 17 June 2026 • ⏰ 14:00 UTC
During the 2022 Lismore floods, official warnings didn't reach the people who needed them. During the Central Victorian fires, power failed and the mobile network collapsed with it. Centralised communications infrastructure fails exactly when you need it most — and we keep building more of it. New post on how LoRa mesh networks and Reticulum can build community comms that survive when everything else doesn't.
https://gaggl.com/blogs/2026-01-26-when-the-grid-fails/
#EmergencyComms #LoRa #Reticulum #ClimateResilience #CommunityNetworks
In an emergency, information is as vital as water. The official advice is clear: “leave early.” But how do you act on that advice when the power is out, the mobile network is congested to the point of failure, and the emergency broadcaster’s tower has been consumed by the very fire you’re trying to flee? This isn’t a hypothetical. As Fiannuala Morgan chillingly documented in her article, “No power, no phone, no radio: why comms dropped out during the Central Victorian fires{target="_blank”}", this is the reality for communities across Australia. The wholesale replacement of resilient copper landlines with power-dependent NBN connections, coupled with the shutdown of the 3G network, has created a communications infrastructure that is dangerously brittle in the face of climate-fuelled disasters.
📡 Battlemesh v18 is happening!
Join us from 7–13 September 2026 in Gornji Karin, Croatia, for a week of talks, workshops, hacking, testing, and collaboration around community networks, mesh networking, OpenWrt, and open communication infrastructure.
Participation is free and open to everyone.
Read the announcement and find all details here:
https://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV18/Announcement
Please share and help us spread the word!
#Battlemesh #CommunityNetworks #OpenWrt #MeshNetworking #FOSS
The hardest part of building your own community network isn't the technology — it's overcoming the conditioning that tells you telecoms infrastructure is something corporations build, not communities. That conditioning is wrong. New post: a practical guide based on real deployments, covering hardware shopping lists, Australian funding programmes, and how to start with three households and grow from there.
https://gaggl.com/blogs/2026-01-29-from-consumer-to-creator/
#CommunityNetworks #FixedWireless #MeshWiFi #RuralAustralia #DIY
In the first two parts of this series, we explored why community telecoms matter and how resilient mesh networks can save lives during emergencies. Now comes the question I’m asked most often: “That sounds great, but how do I actually build one?” This is the knowledge I wish I’d had when I started. If my journey from those early Austrian tele-working centres to deploying mesh networks across remote Australian properties has taught me anything: the hardest part isn’t the technology—it’s overcoming the psychological barrier between “consumer” and “creator.” We’ve been conditioned to believe telecommunications infrastructure is something large corporations build, not something communities can create themselves.
🌏 Power grids and telecommunications networks are no longer as stable as they once were.
📡 The VHF/UHF narrowband communication concept: The system is designed as a physically and energetically self-sufficient alternative to modern, radiation-intensive, and power-hungry infrastructure.
🔋 The transceiver is inexpensive and easy to manufacture.
#TechInnovation #MeshNetwork #Prepping #HamRadio #OpenSource #Resilience #DigitalDivide #RemoteAreas #CommunityNetworks
📡🔋 True digital self-sufficiency: Communication without a mobile network!
🌏 This concept is especially well-suited for regions with poor or no infrastructure.
The solution also serves as a fail-safe emergency system.
🧠For this use case, I've developed a fascinating, completely network-independent alternative solution.
#TechInnovation #MeshNetwork #Prepping #HamRadio #SolarEnergy #OpenSource #Resilience #DoItYourself #DigitalDivide #RemoteAreas #CommunityNetworks
🌏 Die Stromnetze und Telekomnetze sind nicht mehr so stabil wie sie mal waren.
📡 Das VHF/UHF-Schmalband-Kommunikationskonzept: Das System ist als physisch und energetisch autarker Gegenentwurf zur modernen, strahlungsintensiven und stromhungrigen Infrastruktur konzipiert.
🔋 Der Schmalband-VHF-Mesh-Transceiver ist günstig, leicht herzustellen.
#TechInnovation #MeshNetwork #Prepping #HamRadio #OpenSource #Resilience #DigitalDivide #RemoteAreas #CommunityNetworks
📡🔋 Echte digitale Autarkie: Kommunikation ohne Mobilfunknetz!
🌏 Das Konzept ist besonders für Regionen mit schlechter oder keiner Infrastruktur perfekt geeignet.
Die Lösung ist auch ein ausfallssicheres Notfallsystem.
🧠Für diesen Anwendungsfall habe ich eine faszinierende, komplett netzunabhängige Alternativlösung entwickelt.
#TechInnovation #MeshNetwork #Prepping #HamRadio #SolarEnergy #OpenSource #Resilience #DoItYourself #DigitalDivide #RemoteAreas #CommunityNetworks
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