Indigenous communities in unserved rural Mexico set up their own open source based gsm networks and successfully pressured the central government after the fact

Indigenous communities in unserved rural Mexico set up their own open source based gsm networks and successfully pressured the central government after the fact to give them permission, and their efforts are spreading virally. https://rhizomatica.org/ https://rhizomatica.org/ http://www.wired.com/2015/01/diy-cellular-phone-networks-mexico/ http://www.wired.com/2015/01/diy-cellular-phone-networks-mex... They have occasional hackathons https://projects.osmocom.org/news/46 https://projects.osmocom.org/news/46