ChOS Project 23
Communicator's corner
Speakers corner is a famous place in London's Hyde Park. Anyone who
has something to say is allowed to stand and held a speech at speakers
corner. Unfortunately not everyone has a chance to travel to London
for having a speech. This project aims to build an equivalent to
Speakers Corner into the net. Of cause the internet environment causes
its own challenges. Most likely project Communicators Corner would
benefit of using the project Othernet as a platform, since othervice
the requirements of scalability to multiple simultaneus channels,
encryption, anonymity would have to be solved separately. Basically
this project aims to create an automatically scalable two directional
broadcasting network. First direction (99.9% percentage of traffic)
starts from single 'speaker', and the message is broadcasted using
mediating computers into any number of receaving 'listeners'. The
'listeners' should also have a possibility to submit text-based
questions and comments into the broadcasting. The broadcasted stream
could be one or many of following datatypes: text, sound, files or
video.
Why / what is this good for? This easy to access and participate
media can of cause be used in teaching, bretching, entertaining and in
creating various communities. Importantly this media can also be used
in discussing politics in situations where state controls all the
other medias.