DigI:DigI demonstration Norad
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DigI:DigI demonstration Norad
Title | DigI demonstration Norad |
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Place | ITS |
Date, Time | 2017/11/28, 0930-1130 |
Contact Person | Josef.Noll |
Participants | Haitham El-noush, Christine Holst, Ingeborg K Haavardsson, Elibariki Mwakapeje, Andrea Winkler, Josef Noll |
related to Project | DigI |
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Agenda
- 0930 Welcome
- 0940 Table round
- 1000 Visiting the Hot-spot
- 1015 Status DigI project
- 1030 Open discussion
- 1130 end of meeting
Minutes
Visiting the Hot-spot
The hot-spot has been established, and costs around USD 300, including a solar panel, the solar/battery controller, battery, USB chargers for phones/tablets and light. Given the infrastructure sharing with Telecom operators into the village, we expect to re-use the mobile tower to distribute Internet to hot-spots being as long as 7 km away. These Wifi hot-spots will be typically placed where people meet, e.g. health spots, schools, market places, governmental buildings.
In the DigI project we have established information material, and currently perform the site survey to establish the connectivity to 3 villages (Phase A) and later on 10 villages (Phase B). Please read more at: DigI:TT1.3
Due to snow and bad light conditions, the battery of the pilot installation lacks power. Thus no content could be shown at the hot-spot. However, the first version of the content is available at http://digi.futurecompetence.net Further health messages are developed, mainly by "converting paper" into video, animations and evtl games. The "games" will be limited to some cases, given the development effort.
Status DigI project
Presentation by Christine on DigI status in Tanzania
- see all Presentations in DigI, as well as white papers
- We have an extremely engaging team with participants from 8 countries amongst the 11 partners in DigI.
- The multi-national and multi-disciplinary team with 11 partners from 8 countries (Tanzania, Norway, Germany, Rwanda, Serbia, DR Congo, France and Spain) share knowledge in a variety of disciplines such natural sciences, mathematics, information technology, humanities, social sciences and medicine, including veterinary medicine.
- We have good progress, and our people on the ground do a marvellous job to get the agreements for the phase A villages.
- We currently have about 6 months delay in TZ, due to the long negotiations with NFR on the legal status (undertaking?) of the "Basic Internet Foundation", and subsequently hiring of PhD candidates. Thus, main work only started in September 2017.
- However, the time-plan suggests that we are able to catch-up prior to Phase B, though we might want to spend good time to get decent results in the intervention studies.
- Good support from Jon Hansen
Time-plan
- now (Nov/Dec2017): Agreements with district authorities, village authorities and mobile operators in the selected villages
- Feb2018: Meeting at the Norwegian Embassy in Dar es Salaam with Ministry of Health, Ministry of Communications and Mobile Operators to reach agreement on pilots in business models
- April2018: Consortium meeting in TZ with focus on roll-out and first results
- new May2018: Meeting with shareholders (see alliances) for reporting on our achievements. Suggested to create Interim Report for this purpose.
- Summer 2018: plans for showcase Tanzania: Connecting the Unconnected 4000 villages (with WHO, ITU-D, GSMA,...)
Content for Digital Health
The Open Discussion addressed the following topics
USCAF - Connectivity funds
Collaborations
- Centre for Global Health (UiO, TU München)
- HiOA - UiO (along the
- UNOG - United Nations Geneva around #DigitalGeneva
- ITU-WHO - MoU on Africa
- African Alliance on Digital Health
- TZ focus from the Gates Foundation
Roadmap/Strategy
- Link to outbreak
Outbreak response
- Anthrax
- timely