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
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:
- 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