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Outernet - Information from Outer Space

posted by Cactus on Wednesday February 26 2014, @03:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the don't-panic-and-always-know-where-your-towel-is dept.

AnonTechie writes

Media Development Investment Fund, a New York based non-profit, is looking to offer a world-wide data stream free of charge.
Dubbed the 'Outernet', the network will broadcast a one-way data stream to the entire world via a network of mini satellites. The idea is to bridge the digital divide, offering some of the most important (and basic) information on the internet to people regardless of location.

Outernet has posted intention to deliver staples such as: local and international news, OpenStreetMap, Wikipedia, Ubuntu, various educational courseware, and emergency communications systems for use when cell systems fail.

 
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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 26 2014, @04:17AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 26 2014, @04:17AM (#7195)

    I absolutely loathe the one-way aspect of this. Having said this it could have a large positive impact IF and that's a big IF the material was very carefully curated to exclude western propaganda, however subtle. But as that probably will not happen and just might be impossible to do anyways...

    Looks like they list the material they will use to indoctrinate people with. Doesn't look too curated at all. So all in all, this would be just another sad propaganda outlet. Ironically it might not be intended that way however, hard to say.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by jb on Wednesday February 26 2014, @07:26AM

    by jb (338) on Wednesday February 26 2014, @07:26AM (#7233)

    it could have a large positive impact IF and that's a big IF the material was very carefully curated to exclude western propaganda

    If propaganda is to be excluded, surely all propaganda should be excluded. Is Eastern propaganda really any closer to the truth than Western propaganda? I think not.