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Thane Richard
@thanerichard · COO, Outernet
Some use cases for Lantern:
- Distributing latest Ebola information in rural West Africa
- Allowing Twitter and other news updates to continue into Egypt during Arab Spring or in Turkey when censors clamped down.
- Warnings before the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and updates after it hit
- Hurricane Katrina and Sandy updates when comms went dark
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Thane Richard
@thanerichard · COO, Outernet
Hello everyone! My name is Thane and I work at Outernet. We're thrilled to have Lantern featured on here. In a few days we will be releasing an outline of all the content that will be available over Outernet, which is very exciting.
Lantern truly is an amazing product. It is like a radio that receives data instead of music and it works anywhere in the world… See more
Bob Williams
@igamebank · Principal/RMW/igamebank
Looks really interesting. Must you curate, prepare, and host all information to be shared? Being the arbiter of necessary information to the information-deprived is an expensive process and a huge ethical responsibility. How will you keep it up? Are there other revenue models lurking i.e. sponsorship/ads?
I think this is an awesome solution for accessing important news in rural areas. It accesses data through Outernet.
Quote from their site: Outernet takes the best of the web and broadcasts it from space for every human on Earth. The content we broadcast is determined by anyone who chooses to vote on the most important things to share with humanity.
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Max Kirchoff
@maxisnow · Dev Director, The Bold Italic
This is a truly amazing product. The problem of worldwide connectivity seems daunting, and being able to shim that arrival and provide incredibly good information to people in disconnected places via Outernet and Lantern is so so rad.
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Thane Richard
@thanerichard · COO, Outernet
Some use cases for Lantern:
- Distributing latest Ebola information in rural West Africa
- Allowing Twitter and other news updates to continue into Egypt during Arab Spring or in Turkey when censors clamped down.
- Warnings before the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and updates after it hit
- Hurricane Katrina and Sandy updates when comms went dark
When you purc… See more