Help build a remote sensing network for everyone –
The Things Network New York (https://thethings.nyc) uses donated funds to deploy gateways covering all areas of the community (focusing especially on economically and environmentally challenged areas), to run servers, to educate and train users, and to cover the necessary operating costs of running a 501(c)(3). Because of the low cost of devices and gateways, even a small donation can help us provide training devices to students, deploy a gateway at a school, or support our attendance at hackathons and other community events. Larger donations will help us to rapidly scale out the network.
Help build a local, community owned, community controlled alternative network for remote sensing in smart cities.
Remote sensing with The Things Network can transform how communities respond to pollution, extreme weather events, global warming, and environmental justice, by empowering communities and citizens groups to get their own data and tell their own stories. Unlike 5G, we need nobody’s permission, nor must we sell advertisements, give up our data, or depend on the kindness of large corporations in order to get meaningful, actionable information.
This is an opportunity to invest in the future, to make a meaningful difference in who can gather data, and who will own that data, in our communities.
Your donation will immediately help:
- $40 pays for the electronics for one indoor air-pollution sensor
- $150 pays for three high-accuracy temperature/humidity sensors for residential comfort studies
- $300 pays for a year of servers and cloud infrastructure for running the network
- $500 pays for an outdoor gateway covering up to one thousand people
AND check out all the Things Network related things at Adafruit too.
Today is #GivingTuesday . In the makers/electronics/engineering community we all have something we can give, our time, our talents, our code, our designs, and today we’re celebrating companies and organizations that help make this happen. We’re also celebrating organizations and people that could use your help to keep their efforts going.
We’ll be posting all day with some #GivingTuesday ideas to consider, post yours and we’ll help get the word out.
GivingTuesday is a global generosity movement unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world on December 3, 2019 and every day.
It was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good. Over the past seven years, this idea has grown into a global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity.
Related
- GivingTuesday: A Global Generosity Movement – givingtuesday.org
- What is happening near me?
- #GivingTuesday on Twitter.
- #GivingTuesday on the Adafruit blog.