RightMesh Bi-Weekly Update: May 3, 2019
Press
- Featured: NCFA FFCON19 Interview with John Lyotier, CEO RightMesh
- Featured: An interview with Jason Ernst, Incentives of a decentralized networking infrastructure, by Ubiquity
- Published: From Digital Divide to Digital Inclusion, by Jose Ortega
- Published: De la Brecha Digital a la Inclusión Digital, by Jose Ortega
- Published: The Components of RightMesh, by Amber McLennan
Surge
On April 20th, our Manager of Global Partnerships, Brianna MacNeil, spoke and mentored at SURGE in Cape Town, South Africa. The immersive event taught teens and young people about blockchain technology and how it can play a role in addressing global challenges. Brianna spoke on the state of connectivity and gave an overview of RightMesh after the morning session.
At the beginning of the day, none of the attendees were familiar with blockchain. The group, led by UNICEF and ETH Global, took the students through several exercises to teach them the fundamentals of blockchain and the history of money, set them up with a trust wallet, and had them receive currency from a volunteer in the UK to show the speed of transactions. By mid-day the group described the technology as ‘life changing’.
“It was a truly amazing experience to witness their transition from never having heard about blockchain to realizing the transformative power of the technology.” Brianna said, “They immediately grasped the potential and power of RightMesh and connected with the issues of internet shut downs and affordability issues.’
ETH Cape Town
Leading minds within the blockchain space joined together with over 200 internal hackers, developers, and students, to collaborate on building a decentralized future using ethereum. Our Manager of Global Partnerships, Brianna MacNeil, acted as a mentor to the hackers. Winning projects included a decentralized preference-based voting system, a voice to text job creation tool, and an incentivized p2p streaming application.
TF Blockchain
On April 25th, our CPO, Saju Abraham, spoke at TF Blockchain in Vancouver, Canada on ‘Productizing Blockchain.’ He was joined by Paul Walsh of MetaCert and Layne Lafrance of Axiom Zen. The event was a great opportunity to discuss active use cases and network with other technology executives.
Upcoming Events
- SATELLITE 2019, May 6–9th
With over 15,000 attendees, SATELLITE2019 unites aerospace thought leaders, entrepreneurs, executives, end-users and engineers together in one place for the largest global connectivity technology event of the year.RightMesh CEO, John Lyotier, will be speaking on a panel alongside David Howgill, President of Huckworthy, J. Armand Musey, President and Founder of Summit Ridge Group LLC, and moderator Michael Potter, Co-Founder and Director of Geeks Without Frontiers.
We’re hiring!
Our team is continuing to grow! We’re looking for passionate problem solvers to join our growing team and help us connect the next billion.
Current open positions include:
- Decentralized Wireless Protocol Engineer
- Distinguished Software Engineer
- Software Engineer
- Mitacs — PhD Research
- Mitacs — Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- QA Network Test Engineer
How You Can Be Involved
- Register for updates here to ensure you are kept in the loop of our Soft Mainnet Launch developments.
- Join us on RocketChat — you can get clarifications, share your own use case ideas with us, and get involved in conversations with other community members and developers.
Stay in Touch
- Rocket.Chat: https://rocketchat.rightmesh.io
- Telegram announcements: https://t.me/rightmeshannouncements
- Website: https://rightmesh.io
- FB: https://www.facebook.com/TheRightMesh/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/Right_Mesh
- Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/rightmesh
