Internet Shutdowns have become a very common practice across the world by oppressive governments irrespective of the fact that Internet Access has been upheld one of the fundamental Human Right.
It is through controlling the network infrastructure that govt. agencies or Internet Service Providers are able to control our communication channels. In this presentation titled "Building Alternative Networks", I have tried to communicate the necessity of building such networks.
The presentation was prepared for the Mesh Network meetup organized by Free Software Foundation Tamil Nadu at Pondicherry and Chennai, Tamilnadu, India on 25.12.2019