RightMesh Collaborates with Refugium Foundation to Help Develop “Decent” Documentary
RightMesh Joins Other Projects in the First Documentary Exploring the Social Impact of the Blockchain
ZUG, Switzerland & WARSAW, Poland — August 28, 2018 — RightMesh AG, the “Infrastructure-less” connectivity company developing a decentralized mobile mesh network, entered into a collaboration agreement today with the Refugium Foundation to participate in their upcoming documentary, “Decent — How Blockchain Can Change the World.” The film plans to feature real-life use cases of Distributed Ledger Technology which offer solutions to societal issues ranging from a lack of internet connectivity to aiding refugees. Decent will be one of the first documentaries to explore how blockchain companies like RightMesh can have a massive social impact and benefit real people everyday.
“We are thrilled to be given the opportunity to spread the word about our mission to lift nearly 100 million people out of poverty by bridging the digital divide,” said RightMesh CEO & Co-Founder, John Lyotier. “We are harnessing the combined power of a mobile mesh network and the blockchain to create the world’s first software-based, ad hoc mobile mesh networking platform and protocol to connect smartphones without a central internet. The team at Decent is showcasing how decentralized technologies like these can have the potential to change the world.”
The documentary plans to showcase why the developers, designers and pioneers started creating blockchain technology in the first place and hope to move the conversation away from how crypto has become synonymous with easy money. Filmmakers Marek Osiecimski, Sebastian Strzelecki and Anna Konieczna will travel the world and put a spotlight on a selection of human stories featuring those waiting for this technology to improve their lives. They plan to also highlight those blockchain companies working on projects that may meet those expectations and change the world for good through a variety of applications.
“While working as a foreign correspondent for TVN24, I saw the plight of other humans in war-torn and afflicted regions,” said Decent Director, Marek Osiecimski. “We want to explore these stories and tell them to the world while presenting how various blockchain projects are meeting those needs. In the film, we will get past the ICO hype and talk to the most important thinkers and developers in the space. This will bring blockchain’s full potential to life.”
RightMesh is joining fellow blockchain projects Golem, Streamr, DAOstack and Colendi as existing partners in the film. These projects range from being the first global market for idle computer power, an open source marketplace for real time data, an operating system for artificial intelligence and a decentralized credit scoring and microcredit system for the unbanked.
“DAOstack believes that storytelling is an essential part of making decentralization a more present reality,” said DAOstack Community and Business Developer, Nathalia Scherer. “Understanding the scenarios and possibilities of this way of organizing and of the blockchain technology can be very overwhelming, therefore being able to connect stories, showcasing real people building on different use cases is extremely helpful for the ecosystem.”
“Colendi wants to make refugees feel secure as they try to settle abroad. By utilizing blockchain’s position as a decentralized trust machine, we can help those who are marginalized feel as confident as if they were operating within their home country,” said Colendi Co-Founder, Bulent Tekmen.
The Decent Documentary film crew is expected to travel to Bangladesh to film the RightMesh team in action later this year with the final feature to premiere in late spring 2019 in Berlin.
ABOUT RIGHTMESH
RightMesh AG, a Swiss Company, is on a mission to bring connectivity to the next billion users by multiplying the combined power of blockchain, mobile mesh networking, and its own RMESH tokens. RightMesh wireless networks are self-forming, self-healing, and self-regulating, using various technologies in existing smartphones and IoT devices rather than relying on traditional infrastructure and Internet Service Providers. RightMesh is a software-based mobile mesh networking protocol that is ‘infrastructureless’ meaning it could be embedded into existing applications or used to build new mesh-enabled applications that do not require additional hardware or Internet connectivity to transmit data between people, applications, or devices over short distances. Initially, RightMesh was an internal project of Left, a Canadian-based multinational media and technology company with holdings in mobile and Internet-based businesses. Left is a certified B-Corp and RightMesh is governed by the same principles of using business as a force for good.
RightMesh AG is located at Gubelstrasse 11 CH-6300 Zug, Switzerland.
For more information, visit www.rightmesh.io.
ABOUT REFUGIUM FOUNDATION
Refugium Foundation is a non-for-profit organization based in Poland created to promote knowledge about decentralized technologies through film, other media, conferences, trainings and workshops. Its objectives also include supporting the development of innovations in the financial markets, including particular decentralized technologies and other solutions enabling the digitization of financial transactions, as well as the promotion of the latest scientific achievements in the field of decentralized technologies. The organization also promotes innovations on the financial markets among creators and recipients of culture, especially those related to the film industry. For more information on Refugium, visit their website at www.refugium.pl. To track the development of the Decent documentary, follow them on Twitter @DecentDocu and Instagram @decentdocumentary.
