> This is more of an anti-censorship thing. Most useful in areas where somebody turns off the Internet for political reasons.

Yup, that's exactly the only use case I'm targeting (I'm the author of Awala)

> A really reliable low-bandwidth emergency network would be more useful. Something that forwards short text messages via phone to phone WiFi until they reach some place with more connectivity would be helpful in emergencies.

That's also useful, but I'm not sure about either option being more useful than the other. These are very different problems within the realm of offline comms.