BasicInternet:Africa University Zimbabwe Followup
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BasicInternet:Africa University Zimbabwe Followup
| Title | Africa University Zimbabwe Followup |
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| Place | Zoom.us |
| Date, Time | 2020/07/01, 1300-1330 |
| Contact Person | Pius I T Muzariri |
| Participants | Josef Noll, Sanjay Maharaj, Gilford Hapanyengwi, Pius I T Muzariri, Brenda Jimris-Rekve |
| related to Project | DigI, BasicInternet |
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Notes from the meeting
The next meeting to discuss the concept paper is on 15th July 2020
Agenda
The topics to of discussion:
- The concept Note Status
- Public-Private business partnerships
- Sustainability
- Select the service provider
Concept Note Status
- Gilford has made the concept note draft and sent it to his colleagues at the university for review and additions
- The concept note will be send out within 24-48 hours to all the participants int he meeting for review
- There are discussions whether the concept paper is made to be a common agreement between BIF and Africa University
The Public Private Business partnerships
- Use the concept paper as a point of departure for partnership with Unicef Foundation as an open source platform for schools connectivity and later scalable to the local community
- An integrated approach will foster more partnerships
- Suggestion of Africa University being a Think Tank where information sharing to the less deprived will be made possible
- Involve Zimren and make it a neutral vendor
- Suggestion to make the approach a part of CSR for companies?
- The partnership has the potential of being split into two ;That is for both the commercial partners and the local community
- Involve the Universal Access Fund (UCSAF)
Sustainability
- Building of innovation Hubs in Zimbabwe will be the basis for the business seen by commercial entities and thereby addressing sustainability and fostering a sustainable business model
- Building of the portal will be beneficial to students
- We will zero in to Education 5.0 that in Zimbabwe
- Work towards commercialising the project
- The people in the rural communities can access information created by students who have benefited from the portal
Select the provider
- The next meeting will follow-up on whom we will choose as the service provider
Content
The content will be non-profit based on the open educational platform and which will address the 4 keys to digital empowerment that have been set as a priority by the Government of Norway. These four key factors are: Access, Skills, Regulations and Inclusion
- By coming up with a major Concept Note, we can use it to raise money including pulling in UNESCO
- We have to prove that we have a content available that is important and worth sharing with the others
- The availability of university associations across Zimbabwe provides the opportunity to pull more higher educational learning individuals into the digital inclusion agenda
- The basis for Education 5.0 - Prof Dzimbo-More works on the next way of how education is provided.
- With regards to the "mobile license" Business Model, the model still needs to be described in detail (ActionItem: Josef)