Testimony – Why GeoMANET Exists
Certify the narrative & keep the freedom to broadcast. Two pillars sparked this journey: anchoring public decisions in a local blockchain so they become undeniable, and defending the tiny Wi‑Fi bubbles that let citizens speak even when everything else is shut down.
From a family event to systemic manipulation. A situation at home revealed the same patterns I was witnessing nationally. The conclusion was clear: to fight manipulation you must expose the cold structures of language – the fallacies.
AutoPN as a “cold point”. I wrote AutoPN to detect the twenty main fallacies. Once they are highlighted, artificial intelligence can finally weigh the real arguments instead of treating every sentence as equal. Whenever someone hides the truth, the rhetoric leaves fingerprints.
Crossing the “air gap”. In Central Africa the network fails for physical reasons – fallen trees, heavy rains, damaged lines. The answer is human: people move, carry Lucky Blocks, and deliver them from town hall to town hall. The citizen becomes the cable.
The mayor as the fixed point. The town hall that records your birth is already the guardian of your identity. It therefore becomes the ultimate anchor of legitimacy. If the Assembly of Mayors approves a transaction, if citizens deposit their ballots inside Station S, the country keeps functioning even under blackout.
A political stance. GeoMANET is a protected common, not naïve open source. We voluntarily block any commercial appropriation so opportunistic actors must come and talk to us. Personal, civic, academic, humanitarian uses are welcome; commercial ones require explicit written permission.
— Yannick Mandaba