The National Science Foundation and Mozilla are sponsoring an initiative to bypass the wired web to bring additional people online and to provide survivability in times of disaster.
Sound familiar? Seems we're already doing some of that; perhaps some of us should apply for some of the grant money to spice things up.
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/06/21/2-million-prize-decentralize-web-ap...
- Brian