Coming Soon: Digital Resilience International Hackathon 2026 · CRC × OpenFun

The subsea cables that connect the internet have recently become a major focus. Surrounded by sea, Taiwan is especially sensitive and vulnerable to changes affecting subsea cables, and even more so amid unstable geopolitics. When the internet truly disappears, can we still get a message out?

CRC and OpenFun Inc. are co-organizing this two-day event, inviting practitioners from Ukraine (dComms), Myanmar (ASORCOM), and Taiwan to share how they have used alternatives such as Meshtastic, Reticulum, federated protocols, and local servers to build off-grid communications resilience in war zones, jungles, outlying islands, and remote rural communities.

Dates: Saturday, May 23, warm-up action · Sunday, May 24, one-day hackathon Venue: Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Academia Sinica (Nangang, Taipei) Format: Themed talks · Roundtable discussions · Side-event communications challenge

【Panel Sessions｜Sunday, May 24】

• Digital Lifeline: Everything You Need to Know About Subsea Cables (10:30–12:00)
• After the Blackout: Building Communications-Resilience Networks in Ukraine, Myanmar, and Taiwan (13:00–14:30)
• Digital Resilience Lab: Off-grid Network Technical Exchange (15:30–16:30)

【Side-event Challenge｜Saturday, May 23, and Sunday, May 24】

A communications breakthrough mission spanning the entire Humanities and Social Sciences Building—operate a Meshtastic message board, send Reticulum transmissions across different media, and even dispatch “messages by carrier pigeon” as you break through each constraint, one checkpoint at a time!

Event details: crcolab.art/events/hackathon-2026/