Political resilience concept

PILOT PROJECT: Bangui – Damara – Sibut segment.

Goal

• Keep mayors/prefects/essential services (fire, police, schools) running despite outages or crises.
• Local/offline network with opportunistic exchange (store-and-forward) via fixed hubs and mobile carriers.
• Strong authentication: reserved IDs (mayors/prefects/state) anchored in the first blocks.

Roles & IDs

• Primary IDs reserved for public entities (mayors, prefectures, presidency, fire, police, schools).
• Public co-signed activation (first blocks) to list official IDs in legitimate hands.
• Mayors can collectively cut off a branch of the network if a region is compromised.

Identities, genesis & reservations

• Chain name in clear in block 0 to distinguish from competing chains.
• Reserved ID ranges (prime numbers) for presidency/government/mayors/prefects/essentials; citizen IDs outside those ranges.
• Genesis: the first cohort of mayors co-sign activation of official IDs (presidency, prefectures, fire, education) and publish the list in early blocks.
• Mayor change: the assembly validates/updates the ID and revokes the old device; the new mayor recovers the official ID (private key in S box, public key on-chain).
• Private key storage: S/H box (secure element or encrypted file + PIN); public key on-chain.

Transactions & official debates

• Votes and official decisions on-chain (ed25519-signed Tx; JSON/COSE, compressed).
• Blocks: {id, prev_hash, ts, txs[], signatures} append-only; multi-validator quorum to define.
• Public “official” discussions (announcements, procedures) can be anchored (hash + metadata) for audit by all members.

Opportunistic ferry (“LuckyBlock”)

• Signed, compressed bundles (gzip+base64) carried by bus/train/car (mobiles, S/H boxes) to cross dead zones.
• Minimal manifest: destination (country/region/mayor/proxy), priorities (P0..P3), TTL, hashes.
• Mobile gateway: Python app (Termux) or S box with µSD to pick/drop bundles.

Addressing & privacy

• Geo-located K/H stations (~15 km LoS radius) act as public hubs; home addresses (S/Home) stay private and only the local K station knows them.
• Layered manifest: clear part (region/country/priority/TTL), encrypted part readable only by next hub (next hop). Proxies/friends can be inserted to blur the route.
• Unique IDs: on-chain reservations for public IDs (prime numbers), citizen IDs outside; creation is free but to receive you must bind to a K station (S↔K binding, revocable).
• Re-routing possible: change destination (H/proxy) en route, or declare a GPS target if you want help (optional).

Field usage

• K/H hub at crossings (bus, stations, markets): detects declared destinations by carriers and loads useful bundles.
• Citizen messages: priority text; heavy media served locally (K station) to avoid saturation.
• Citizen participation: local Wi‑Fi sharing, encrypted ephemeral storage, position/destination under ephemeral pseudonym.
• If infrastructure is bombed or destroyed, the chain isn’t broken: bundles keep moving via mobile carriers.
• Example: a relay cut between two towns. Messages hop from Wi‑Fi bubble to bubble to the next K station, climb into the “bus” (phone/ferry), then drop after the outage zone.
• In a coup, mayors can keep governing locally (Mayors’ Assembly) without interim presidency.

Blockchain: how it works

• Append-only log (blocks = id, prev_hash, ts, txs[], signatures). Distributed via bundles or backhaul; not a full snapshot each block but a hash chain.
• Signed transactions (ed25519): identities, votes, revocations, acts, official forum. JSON/COSE compression possible.
• Multi-validator quorum (town halls/K relays) to define; blocks can be produced offline and carried by ferries.
• ID state: initial reservations (public IDs) in early blocks; revoking/activating a mayor = new signed TX co-signed by concerned assembly.
• Parallel branches: if a branch runs isolated, reconcile by importing missing blocks (hash/prev_hash) once a ferry/USB passes.

Current tech (summary)

• Node API: base64 docs, binary stream, bundles export/import (gzip+base64) with enriched manifest.
• Simple admin UI (token) + carrier script (Termux/laptop).
• Hash/integrity, admin signature (token OK, ed25519 to harden).

Outlook: Toward a Certified, Citizen-Owned Resilient Network

As MANET geo-addressed networks (MANETgeo) become widely accessible and anyone can deploy their own decentralized mesh, a new governance challenge emerges: the proliferation of parallel, unverified or opaque networks that may compromise security, digital sovereignty, and citizen trust.

Why a global nomenclature is needed

Since unapproved Station S nodes may appear anywhere, it becomes essential to provide the world with a clear nomenclature to identify legitimate civic networks.

This nomenclature should be endorsed by the most meaningful local democratic authority: the mayors, who represent grassroots legitimacy and republican neutrality, far from centralized state overreach or private exploitation.

Proposed nomenclature examples

• MANETgeo_CENTRAL-AFRICAN-REP_CITIZEN_CHANNEL — Public citizen channel, non-nominal.
• MANETgeo_CENTRAL-AFRICAN-REP_CITIZEN_APPROVED_CommuneName — Certified, registered and secure civic network.
• MANETgeo_ANY_UNAPPROVED — Unverified mesh, potentially unsafe.

Democratic guarantees of the “Mayors’ Network”

• Official nominative sphere: authenticated municipal services and emergencies.
• Public civic sphere: protected pseudonymous participation.
• Full stealth sphere: metadata-free communication, even in crisis contexts.

Enabled services

• Secure local voting and surveys from home.
• Offline education and civic content distribution.
• Distributed emergency alerts and disaster-resilient messaging.
• Local micro-economy and resilient community services.

Risks without proper standards

• Pirate networks (identity theft, manipulation, extortion).
• Totalitarian networks (tracking, oppression, central surveillance).
• Commercial opaque networks exploiting user data.
• Amateur networks with weak or broken security.

Conclusion: A path toward democratic resilience

To prevent MANET systems from becoming tools of control or exploitation, a clear architecture, a local governance model, and a publicly verifiable certification are essential.

The “Network of Mayors” is not merely a technical structure: it is a political safeguard, a protector of civil liberties, and a foundation for democratic resilience in a hyper-connected century.

This framework paves the way toward the next milestone: the definition of MANET-SECURES-YOU standards, ensuring confidentiality, sovereignty and transparency for all citizens.