Resilient communities aren't only going to be an escape valve for people in the Western world to avoid economic and social dissolution. Resilient communities can also seed and rapidly grow viable, thriving trading partners (via resilient economic darknets ) in nearly every corner of the world, regardless of the current development level. A baby step towards this objective can be seen in the Jalalabad, Afghanistan fabrication center set up by MIT. It's in the process on not only providing local manufacturing but it's building it's own wireless network called Fab Fi. Keith Berkoben and Amy Sun (from MIT) conclude:
For me, the irony... is particularly acute when one considers that an 18-month World Bank funded infrastructure project to bring internet connectivity to Afghanistan began more than SEVEN YEARS ago and only made its first international link this June. That project, despite hundreds of millions of dollars in funding, is still far from being complete. Meanwhile, FabLabbers are building useful infrastructure for pennies on the dollar out of their garbage.