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Building local knowledge with . Hypermedia and mesh mash networkslast but not least was tb dinesh, who presented his work . With janastu, and servelots. He is building free and open source technologies to address the . Needs of populations in the global south, particularly indigenous communities and those experiencing systemic inequity . And prejudice. Dinesh’s passion is building the tools for a truly inclusive web, one that . Takes into account that still a large population of the world have low reading literacy.

Dinesh . Is based in a village that lies on top of a hill next to a . bangalore in india. A mesh network connects . His village to other villages across the valley. Janastu has built a radio storytelling platform .
Atop that mesh network, enabling people to share their stories special database and knowledge using audio and . Visual media. They converted old phone booths into nodes for the radio, called namdu1radio.

They . Are equipped with raspberry pis that allow people to walk up to listen to other . People’s recordings or record their own with a push of a button. Dinesh noted that . Making the technology approachable this way is crucial. By making use of familiar infrastructure, like . A phone booth, you can more easily embed new technology. But archiving this material in . Ways that low literacy people can contribute, was another challenge they wanted to address.

Dinesh . And his team have created hypermedia archives, using image-based web annotation technology to connect audio . To other audio. Like hypertext, where text documents are interconnected with other text documents through .

Links, hypermedia does the same using media. The archive tool allows people to drag-and-drop images . To associate them to audio files. Their hypermedia project has been underway for several years. . What have they had to change since the covid lockdowns? This year, janastu was planning .