BasicInternet:I4PS SchoolConnectivity Dec2020
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BasicInternet:I4PS SchoolConnectivity Dec2020
Title | BasicInternet:I4PS_SchoolConnectivity_Dec2020 |
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Place | Zoom.us |
Date, Time | 2020/12/01, 1300-1345h Oslo time |
Contact Person | Nazar Nicholas |
Participants | Josef.Noll, Nazar Nicholas, Catherine R. Kimambo, Kelvin Massawe, Brenda Jimris-Rekve |
related to Project | BasicInternet |
Keywords | School Connectivity, I4PS |
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Purpose and action items
The purpose of the meeting was the follow-up of the School Connectivity November meeting and follow-up the action items, addressing the topics for School Connectivity
Status and follow-up:
- Create the MoU to describe our goals and expectations
Updated MoU will come by end of this week - Discuss Content on the InfoSpot
- Nazar is in contact with TZ Institute for education to get offline access to the online library
- Teaching aid for teachers
- Syllabi (Syllabus) information for children
- other content like Ubongo Kids https://ubongokids.com. Ubongo kids are education animators making it simple for kids to understand educative conten. Their materials are based on science, technology, engineering, mathematics and more - We will send one InfoSpot som proof of concept now, and extend with another 4 sets, such that ISOC TZ can establish 5 schools with access to Internet - Nazar to send the plus.codes/map coordinates of the school to connect
- We need an assessment of the expected outcome of school connectivity. Criteria are e.g. access, costs, Quality of Experience (QoE)
- Involve the ISOC engineer to go through Solutions and the How To as a preparation for installation. Have a collaboration with Catherine R. Kimambo (African Child) on details of installation.
- Discuss how ISOC Tanzania & Basic Internet can work together on courses and online training
- Nazar introduced Program Roots and Shoots https://www.janegoodall.org/our-work/our-approach/roots-shoots/ to African Child and Basic Internet. Roots and Shoots was established in 1991 and is present in 140 countries globally. They deal with young people and mainly school programs. It has the potential for collaboration due to the need for education content and school program
Basic Internet Aspect linked to the National Knowledge Portal-Josef
- The need for trusted information
- Data Innovation and Governance- This will look into creating data that is value-based in Tanzania and its communities
- Public-Private Partnerships (PPP)
- Access/Availability- This is through easy regulations- enabling zero-rated content access to National Knowledge Portal on education related content, health, agriculture, entrepreneurship etc http://NationalKnowledgePortal.net
- Basic Internet Foundation was also a part of the Vision2030 Informative Dialogue , https://its-wiki.no/wiki/Visjon_2030_Formativ_Dialog_Nov2020 which was also attended by Innovation Norway
Next Meeting: 14Jan2021 1500-1600h TZ time
Digital activities in Tanzania
TAPIS creating Public Internet Hubs
- for marginalized citizens
- aiming at 12.468 Public Internet spots, to reach 59.8 million with Internet access in 10 yrs
- Provide digital literacy to 5.98 million youth and women in 10 yrs
- provide Wananchi service to all citizens
- Outcome: create 140.000 jobs within 10 years, and reduce the vulnerability from being left alone
- The project is supported by the Internet Society with USD 30,000
- Upscaling of Public Internet Hubs: from kiosk to innovation centre
- including digital community library
- provide eAgriculture
I4PS to connect 1628 public secondary schools
- The TZ institute for education has established the online library for content til schools
Background information
- Discussions with the Norwegian Government and the Vision 2030 Visjon_2030_Formativ_Dialog_Nov2020
Starlink connectivity, offering 99 USD/month Me to Everyone (1:35 PM) Hi @Kelvin - sorry for having missed out the invitation to you. Please excuse! I did not recognise that you were not part of the mail exchange Me to Everyone (1:48 PM) Peter Mmbando (Internet Society): https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/starlink-set-up [10:49, 01/12/2020] Peter Mmbando (Internet Society): Hello Professor Josef , I saw something interesting about star link [11:15, 01/12/2020] Josef Noll: Thanks for sharing - that was my expectation - 99 USD/month - not really cheap, but when we can use it to feed a village, then it is absolutely affordable - Perhaps we need to "rephrase" the BasicInternet Model - building a community network and then sharing with schools/communities - and with "Internet Lite for free" for all.
Sustainable Business Models for Access and Content https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wm5YE_XLQfJsi_aJUpPoIsRwc7k5GVl4vv_c_pUSbfw/edit
InfoSpot provided by the Basic Internet Foundation: http://Solutions.BasicInternet.no
- how to establish the InfoSpot, see BasicInternet:How_To
- Further information about the infrastructure, as given during the DigI:TZ-Hackathon_Feb2020 and in Media:202002_BasicInternet_Infrastructure.pdf
- Location of the InfoSpots, please use http://plus.codes/map (select satellite view)
Courses and knowledge exchange:
- Course by Internet Society on "Building Community Networks" https://www.internetsociety.org/tutorials/wireless-community-networks - covering the first 4 lectures of the course.
- The Basis for courses on building InfoSpots