{"id":8745,"date":"2014-02-19T12:07:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T16:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=8745"},"modified":"2014-02-19T12:07:20","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T16:07:20","slug":"outernet-shortwave-radio-for-the-smartphone-enabled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/outernet-shortwave-radio-for-the-smartphone-enabled\/","title":{"rendered":"Outernet: shortwave radio for the smartphone enabled?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a new project in the works, Outernet<\/em><\/strong>, that aspires to bring the international accessibility of shortwave radio along with the versatility of the Internet. Outernet’s goal is stated on their website<\/a>:
\n\"OuterNet\"<\/a><\/p>\n

“By leveraging datacasting technology over a low-cost satellite constellation, Outernet is able to bypass censorship, ensure privacy, and offer a universally-accessible information service at no cost to global citizens. It’s the modern version of shortwave radio, or BitTorrent from space.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s a fascinating concept: deploy low-cost, CubeSat satellites<\/a> which broadcast data in a way that it should be accessible to anyone with a wi-fi enabled device such as smart phone or computer. Specifically, Outernet states that they will be using, “globally-accepted, standards-based protocols, such as\u00a0<\/span>DVB<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>Digital Radio Mondiale<\/a>, and\u00a0<\/span>UDP-based<\/a>\u00a0WiFi multicasting<\/a>.”<\/span><\/p>\n

(What? \u00a0Did they say Digital Radio Mondiale<\/a>? \u00a0They did indeed.)<\/p>\n

I’m all about freedom of and access to information, so I hope Outernet is successful.\u00a0They’ve published an ambitious timeline<\/a> with a goal of having CubeSats ready to deploy as soon as June of 2015. For more information, check out Outernet’s project page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a new project in the works, Outernet, that aspires to bring the international accessibility of shortwave radio along with the versatility of the Internet. Outernet’s goal is stated on their website: “By leveraging datacasting technology over a low-cost satellite constellation, Outernet is able to bypass censorship, ensure privacy, and offer a universally-accessible information service […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1114,54,960,3],"tags":[2598,980,4083,2597],"class_list":["post-8745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-modes","category-drm","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","tag-cubesat","tag-digital-radio-mondiale","tag-drm","tag-outernet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2h3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11371,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/the-outernet-lantern-a-portable-wireless-library\/","url_meta":{"origin":8745,"position":0},"title":"The Outernet Lantern: a portable wireless library","author":"Thomas","date":"November 13, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"One project I have been following very closely since its debut is Outernet: a satellite-based information retrieval system that promotes free\u2013and anonymous\u2013access to information. 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