SchoolConnectivity TZ 8Apr2021
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SchoolConnectivity TZ 8Apr2021
Title | School Connectivity TZ 8Apr2021 |
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Place | Zoom.us |
Date, Time | 2021/04/08, 1400-1500 |
Contact Person | Catherine R. Kimambo |
Participants | Josef.Noll, Rosalynn Mworia, Catherine R. Kimambo |
related to Project | School Connectivity TZ |
Keywords | School Connectivity |
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Purpose
Provide the status for the School Connectivity project in Tanzania and discuss follow-up.
- 10 schools in 10 areas connected
Lessons learned
- how can we "topp up" when more than 10 GB is needed
- educational funds assigned to every school, allowed the adoption
- Students will learn something valuable
Best praxis
- digital friends, local NGOs assist
- learning content, made available offline
- restricting sites that can be visited by the students and teachers
- diret involement of local government through TAMISEMI
Challenges
network fluctuation in completely isolated areas - Simanjiro (Emboreet secondary school) lack of digital skills to non-IT teachers Follow up/Next steps:
learning platform with teach involvement: teachers can download and make available for all children voucher for access of teachers top-up for schools business model for "wholesale", e.g. 10 SIM cards and 100 GB Reporting back from operators on usage Affordable institutions such as schools, hospitals and communities Measuring the usage in the apps Scalability to 1000, 5000 schools Vodacom -recommendations
B2B contact (regional, national governments) Digitising Tanzania (MCIT)
1) increasing from 45% to 69% (end 2021) to 80% broadband coverage (Vodacom) - MCIT 100% by 2030 2) education: health - network agnostic access to education content on Vodacom platform Vodacom Foundation:
health education - open funds - maternal health programme business model for wholesale (B2B) MoH platform: 100, 80, 50% for health UCSAF: TZS 130 million/site to upgrade areas Next steps:
we can ask some of the schools to give us a feedback: https://e-fahamu.vodacom.co.tz follow-up B2B wholesale (feedback on our models) Tanzania MCIT strategy Health platform/portal UCSAF: scale up - sustainable business model: https://its-wiki.no/images/f/fd/Impact_SchoolConnectivity.pdf
Way ahead
- Follow-up meeting on
- Inputs for Vodacom strategy
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