BasicInternet:Ongoing
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Ongoing discussions
here we have some internal notes on the status of the activities
- 4Feb 1300-14h DigI:DigI_Meeting_Feb_2020
Kenya
Kenya: Business mission with Innovation Norway and Norwegian African Business Association (NABA)
- Brenda is with the business mission in Kenya
- Hackathon as part of AHERI conference - meeting entry???
Uganda
- Contact with the government - travel on 24-26Feb2020 - Brenda - meeting???
Rwanda
- collaboration with Iris Hub, see DigI:Villages - Gerdi follows up
- Connecting 3-5 schools together with Iris Hub (Benjamin) in Spring 2020
- CMU Carnegie ... University in Kigali, interest for collaboration and connections to the government.
- University of Rwanda - some initial contacts
- EAC Internet Society - contact via Brenda
Tanzania
- Hackathon DigI:TZ-Hackathon_Feb2020 - Josef, Christine, ?? joining
- Call for action launched on "Apply now: Tanzania Digital Health" - who?
- Shipment of equipment - Rashid, ... - suggest to ship via Muhas
- UCSAF: Proposal for 10 schools connectivity - driven by Catherine R. Kimambo
Myanmar
- Gerdi follows up with "educational collaboration" involving Zabai, Telenor and Gov.
6G (Beyond5G)
6G conference in Levi in the middle of March2020 - Sudhir organises a session on Digital Inclusion
- Sudhir is currently (3Feb2020) in India for the 5GHuddle with 3 talks
- Collaboration with IIT Indore on digital and financial inclusion
Proposals
Norhead - 26June2020
DigI proposal?
- Maurice (FCI) - suggests to apply ...
- See the full call in MFA/Norad’s Grants Portal (since 20 March 2020).
- For a detailed outline of NORHED II, see Programme Document.
- The application deadline is extended to Friday 26 June, 2020, at 13:00 CET.
- Norad aims at signing agreements by the end of 2020 for projects to begin early 2021.
2. COVID-19 video
- not submitted - CovidInfo full call 31Mar2020 - outline 16March, see owncloud = 2020CovidInfo-NFR
3. Botnar - 14Apr2020 15:00h
Fit for the Future call: Foundation Botnar https://www.fondationbotnar.org/fit-for-the-future-call/
- see owncloud = 2020Botnar-FitForFuture
- Partners
- Digital Skills Foundation (Annemijn) - course
- Kortex - National Knowledge Portal
- Basic Internet - connectivity
- African Child - contacts and courses - "train the trainer"
- Temeke network - 24 sites - >1000 students
- MUHAS - Municipial contact, (Muhas, African Child: scale up to 5.000 students)
- UiO - Digital Health
- Content from MINDS (and upscaling) - https://minds-africa.org/youth-program-on-elections-and-governance/
- need to coordinate with Andrea Winkler and Illona Kickbusch
- A call for innovative proposals that leverage data and frontier technologies for the health and wellbeing of young people
- innovative approaches for health & education (not infrastructure)
- may be involve Annemijn Perrin with her National Knowledge Portal (AI, data driven knowledge) - DTCs
- Dar-es-Salaam (2nd city) - city administration (Felix?)
- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HayHiJIS5VVcpXB5RI_8kAXjPirs6SKV/view?usp=sharing
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tvnAxOLM1uEt8gUmnBREuxs_y2YzHC2p3QmalLpmYc0/edit
4. Youth Technology
DEADLINE?: 10 Million CHF Grant Funding for Youth Technology
- https://www.ictworks.org/improve-adolescent-wellbeing-technology/#.Xl-FsS2ZMzU
- Ghana collab possible, Ministry of Communication and GIFEC
5. ICT-58
- Invite ourselves as partner - International partnership building between European and African innovation hubs - ID: ICT-58-2020
- Please check all instances of this call - the menu on the left of the webpage is the content of this call - WHO?
- European Innovation Hubs, a catalogue of Digital Innovation Hubs in Europe https://s3platform.jrc.ec.europa.eu/digital-innovation-hubs-tool
- list of digital innovation hubs for the first call= who are looking for partners: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/how-to-participate/interested-org-list/31115305
6. ICT57-2020
An empowering, inclusive Next Generation Internet - ID: ICT-57-2020
- https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/ict-57-2020
- this one is more on the tech side. - @Kathe and @Brenda had a meeting with the commissionair in Trondheim
7. NATO Partnership for Peace
NATO Partnership for Peace
- digititalisation - infodemics (see Kenya, Covid-19)
Trello
see cards under: https://trello.com/c/OYi1Fy8c
Africa50
Africa50 and Africa Innovation challenge, see https://africa50innovationchallenge.com/#steps
- Gerdi has written an email to see if we can "still come in"
Business partnership
Business partnership is based on share your Internet
- Kathe develops the business package
Sustainable Business models for Access to Digital Public Goods https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wm5YE_XLQfJsi_aJUpPoIsRwc7k5GVl4vv_c_pUSbfw/edit?usp=sharing
Paket with access to schools - funds required "we will provide as a loan".
- answering SDG target 4.1.1. directly (% of schools connected to Internet)
- collaboration with Digital Skills Foundation
Innovation Norway
- Deadline 28Feb2020 with FAIR and others
Norec proposal
- with Kenya and Uganda, Brenda develops
- Proposal submitting on Wednesday (12Feb2020), still discussing if UiO is partner or just supporting
Technology
we finally solved the challenge of ordering. Thanks to EET.no and EyeNetworks we have a direct ordering process. Delivery to ITS@Kjeller, bill goes to EyeNetworks, and ITS will send order to EyeNetworks.
Transport:
- UiO has transport agreements - will test
Other - Logo
- "reconsider", looks like a social dating site?
- introduce an antenna?
Events & Publications
If you know where we are involved, create a meeting:
- Internet Governance Forum in Nov2020 in Poland - Catherine has asked for a booth and a panel - concept note to be written
- ITU Digital Transformation Centres - 11-13Feb2020 in Geneve - Invitation to Danica and Josef to give a presentation'. Danica will talk on digital literacy skills for the DTCs and Josef will talk about....?'
Book chapter
Papers