Jiranku-the mobile server for android

The mobile server project for android for phone to phone surfing in closed societies is now officially called Jiranku. According to Sean Ang,imagine how activists will greatly enhance their advocacy work in closed society without censorships. Or how geographically marginalized society will be able to be connected in a far away land with no internet.

How Jiranku works?

To date, there is no similar application in the market. On Android, applications such as Estrong File Explorer allows a phone to browse shared folders on the LAN, as well as folders. However, it doesn’t provide simple phone to phone connectivity and browsing.

Phone to phone browsing requires the phone to act as an Access Point (AP). We propose to accomplish this using mesh networking protocols such as Linux Optimized Link State Routing Protocol (OLSR). Currently, this protocol is limited to Android phones. Iphones do not support such protocols at the moment but may change if the android version becomes popular.

In terms of content sharing in closed societies, there is no similar application, or alternative method of sharing content without going through telco operators or Internet Service Providers.

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