http://rangzen.denovogroup.org/wp/
We develop technology to allow citizens of repressive regimes to communicate freely, independent of government or corporate-controlled infrastructure, while providing strong anonymity guarantees. - Infrastructure Independent: A mobile mesh that scales to millions of users, without compromising their safety. - Trustworthy: Leverages social connections to resist attack and infiltration. - Private: Provides strong anonymity guarantees to users to preserve their privacy. Enabled by a generous grant from the US State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL), as part of their Internet Freedom Initiative, we embark on an exciting journey to help citizens of oppressive regimes circumvent government-imposed communication blackouts. At the core of this work, is our recent study – Rangzen, on which we’ll build the remaining elements for a widely deployable solution. Some of these elements pose fascinating research challenges, while others call for skillful integration of existing solutions. Our core team of developers is housed in Berkeley’s computer science department (EECS), amidst graduate students and faculty, at the CITRIS headquarters, to drive the research agenda and incorporate cutting-edge studies through a collaborative process. We plan to release a beta version of the Android-app by the end of summer 2014. This version will be rigorously tested, peer reviewed and experimented with by students and the general public, leading to bug fixes and feature enhancement in successive releases. Our work is freely available as open-source encouraging peer review and transparency. We work in tight collaboration with the TIER group and the Data and Democracy Initiative (DDI). Rangzen is the Tibetan word for Freedom/Liberty/Independence. -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
