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BasicInternet:Dutch Embassy-Unafunda-BasicInternet-Sana Oct2020
Title | BasicInternet:Dutch_Embassy-Unafunda-BasicInternet-Sana_Oct2020 |
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Place | Teams@Microsoft |
Date, Time | 2020/10/27, 0800-0900 |
Contact Person | Jan Huesken |
Participants | Wenzile Madonsela Msimanga, Khulekile Msimanga, Brenda Jimris-Rekve, Josef Noll, Sanjay Maharaj |
related to Project | BasicInternet |
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Venue
The online meeting was held with partners from Unafundo, the Basic Internet Foundation and the Dutch Embassy in South Africa.
Takeaways and way ahead
We reached a common understanding of digital empowerment as the basis for entrepreneurship and
- Jan will invite the partners to the Dutch Embassy, to couple the NL-supported projects with the activities from Unafundo
- We will need to device strategic communication to ensure an attractive profile for commercial companies, where the Dutch embassy can help in establishing the contacts.
- We will strengthen the coalition on a governmental level, as framework conditions are important to stimulate businesses
Detailed discussions and contributions
The Dutch Embassy
- Our discussions on access to information and creation of content that is viable for communities in emerging economies, South Africa to mention, resonates with the vision and mission of the Dutch Embassy in South Africa.
- Jan adds that lack of access leads to the digital divide and therefore the need to close the digital gap will become an economic boost to the emerging markets
- The Dutch Embassy works towards emerging development enterprises with organisations like Youth Zones, which works with communities at the Basic Level. Youth Zones involve youths, on matters pertaining to Gender-Based Violence Violence by providing them with internet access in the townships as information access is important. In addition, they teach youths entrepreneurial skills.
- Going through communities for Strategic Partnerships is important due to the boost in community involvement.
- Cyber-bullying among the youths is a challenge and should be addressed.
- The Dutch Embassy promotes trade and investment in South Africa. Unafundo and Basic Internet Foundation will be introduced to an NGO to further the project together.
- We will be introduced to RISA(?)
Unafundo
- Wenzile mentions that the collaborators in Unafundo are required to be individuals of integrity and so should the strategic partners carry out their activities with integrity
- Digital health issues is one of the objectives of the collaboration that Unafundo would like to bring across. That is, the need to plant the seed that reaches out to communities through the people who share a similar vision.
- We need to tap on the South African Infrastructure and this would be attained through work with communities that have planted these infrastructures.
- The technological advancement should be scaled up. We need to know how to bridge the access gap but not to just basic digital skills.
- In addition, we have to work with the government without getting entangled but to also have an influence on the rules and regulatory frameworks.
Basic Internet Foundation
The Basic Internet Foundation has the vision of improving the life of every single human being through free access to information on the Internet. To enable the vision, the Foundation has
- Established solutions for access, by creating InfoSpots in rural villages with no/bad mobile coverage. An example is Selela as the border of the Serengeti, where we established connectivity from a mobile tower being more than 20 km away.
Norwegian Government's Digital Transformation and Development
- The Norwegian Government now attributes digital transformation as the driver for development. Their four key focus is on Access, skills, regulations and inclusion in order to realise this goal. "Digital Transformation and Development Policy", Norwegian Government, Message to the Parliament, Meld. St. 11 (2019-2020), Apr2020, https://www.regjeringen.no/no/dokumenter/meldst11_summary/id2699502/?ch=2
- "Digital Transformation and Norwegian Development Policy" is intended to contribute to a more effective development co-operation, ensuring that no one is left behind and that developing countries have... www.regjeringen.no
- Besides what Wenzile mentions, I'd also like to develop our collaboration as an example for Dutch-Nordic collaboration for the Compact with Africa (CwA). - We are in contact with Günther Nooke (Afrikabeauftragter Angela Merkel)
the slides of the SDGs are in: by Josef Noll Josef Noll 08:41 the slides of the SDGs are in: https://its-wiki.no/images/a/a0/202010_6G_and_SDGs_WWRF_Noll.pdf
8:teamsvisitor:45ef9941b0f94ab986b7cb827aa81243 joined the meeting. Sanjay Maharaj (gjest) joined the meeting. Message by Josef Noll Josef Noll 08:53 http://meetings.basicinternet.no