Description:

We will explore how decentralized and incentivized infrastructure could provide privacy to a broad range of message-based applications and services in the Global South and how incentives need to be created among distributed users to do so. We will further explore how a mixnet that protects network traffic metadata for applications, providing communication privacy superior to both VPNs and Tor against global adversaries that can watch the entire internet is fundamental for the Global South going forward. The workshop intends to explore together with the attendees which are the policy, infrastructural, social and political barriers or opportunities in the Global South to adopt a mixnet based approach to infrastructure. We will further explore how a mixnet network can serve as the foundation for a vast range of privacy-enhanced applications that defend the fundamental freedoms of people across the globe against traffic analysis, fostering digital sovereignty.