Please see blog http://blog.eComm.ec

2. The Serval Project: Telecommunications Any Where, Any Time Dr. Paul Gardner-Stephen Rural, Remote & Humanitarian Telecommunications Research Fellow, Flinders University Founder, The Serval Project (http://servalproject.org)

3. Mobile communications are useful

4. But it depends on infrastructure that can be damaged … Image courtesy http://www.flickr.com/photos/plant-trees/ ; some rights reserved.

5. Image by Rob Chandler ( http://www.flickr.com/people/96147639@N00 ); Some Rights Reserved. … overwhelmed

6. … or absent

7. So we assumed zero infrastructure

8. … and came up with this; just the phones talking to each other, relaying calls, and resolving numbers for each other; a cellular commons.

10. Making the best of what’s available

12. Mapping / Situation Awareness