Calling owners of quite extraordinary mobile phones

Red Symons is an extraordinary man, who became aware of our project*, and conducted an interview with our Dr Paul about the cost of mobile phone technology – and how it doesn’t have to be that way. He has written an extremely witty and clever article about it. ABC The Drum – Calling owners of […]

Batphone targets blackspots

Image via Wikipedia Our own Dr Paul has been interviews on the ABC‘s Bush Telegraph rogram about how regional and rural communities in Australia could benefit from the technological future offered by Serval – all at an incredibly low cost compared to current technologies… Batphone targets blackspots – 25/08/2010. It would be fantastic if we […]

Dr Paul on Serval Batphone and travelling…

I am sitting in Changi Airport, Singapore, on my way to the International Summit for Community Wireless Networks, and I have had one of those aha moments about how Serval can help people communicate. You see, I have just finished talking to my wife by telephone, having called our home number as though I were still at home […]

LinuxSA Presentation

Tonight Dr Paul delivered a presentation to LinuxSA on the Serval Batphone. There were some amazing questions, and a great amount of interested. We are putting the video up this weekend on our shiny new YouTube channel – so watch this space! All of our videos, from the tests, media releases, and presentations are being […]

Code available!

The DNA source code is now available under GPLv2 at: http://code.google.com/p/serval-dna/ We are proud about our use of Open Source technology as a backbone to all our endeavours to help people globally in times of need – whether they be temporary, due to disaster, or more permanent issues, due to geographic issues, or socio economic constraints. We […]

Our Awesome supporter writes about us

The Awesome Foundation, like Flinders University, has been an incredibly enthusiastic supporter of ours since almost day 1 – and they have really helped us progress, in both practical and encouragement terms. They have done a lovely write up of us at their site. They also remind us of a remote presentation our own Dr Paul Gardner-Stephen […]

The ABC crew that filmed us…

…put us on their nightly news, and of all the stories and articles, this is the most satisfying, as I got to meet and chat with the reporter and cameraman. Both lovely guys:) The response to Serval has been nothing short of inspiring wonderful:) Thank you to everyone who has commented or enquired so far – and keep it […]