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= Notes from the meeting =
 
= Notes from the meeting =
''' still to be established'''
 
  
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== Follow-up ==
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#  follow-up on  [[Reports]] for
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* a) value perspective towards the government of Norway on how to make digital inclusion happening
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* b) innovative business models for access
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* c) Yeboo village portal  - a potential for Open Source development
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# common project proposal to UNICEF https://www.unicefinnovationfund.org/apply/child-online-safety-solutions
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# collaboration on rural development
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# collaboration on basic digital skills
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=== About Basic Internet Foundation ===
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Vision: Our vision is to improve the life of every human through free access to information on the Internet.
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Our solution is two-fold; First, we reach out to areas where there is no Internet. Second, we provide Internet Lite, the freemium model for access.
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BasicInternet 1.0 - The '''access to Internet''' in areas
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* Providing Internet "[[InfoSpot]]s", which are Wifi Spots using the mobile network
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* Promoting ''free access to information''
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* The InfoSpot is based on a mobile network receive antenna, a local network control centre (LNCC) and a village server
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* Reaching out to more than 20 km, as e.g. [[DigI:Selela|Selela]] where the mobile tower is about 22 km away, and Izazi, a village "behind the hill" https://basicinternet.org/it-only-takes-90-min-to-connect-izazi/
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BasicInternet 2.0 - '''skills, regulations and inclusion'''
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* [[National Knowledge Portal]], answering the need for '''trusted information''' - http://NationalKnowledgePortal.net
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* Addressing skills through courses, e.g. health information, see prototype on http://Yeboo.com
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* Regulation and Inclusion, promoting '''free access to the National Knowledge Portal''' (as first (and easy) step towards "free access to information"
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=== About Fontes ===
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* Create IT-skills education through a 4-step progress
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# intensive 3 month program on programming and soft skills
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# bootcamp for specific challenges posted by companies, (see village portal development). ''Note: typical costs USD 10.000 for 4 pupils''
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# Last mile programming, together with Laboremus
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# Job preparation program
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* In the foundation, see the need for online learning and basic digital skills - with challenges being electricity and network
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* Have experience that only 2 out of 30 members of online courses had a smartphone
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* involved in rural-development projects, e.g. water in Western Uganda
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=== Other topics ===
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* feedback to NORAD/UD - see [[Norad_innspillsmote_virkemidler_for_norsk_naeringslivet]]
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* Collaboration with Digital Skills Foundation on basic digital skills, see https://www.digitalskillsfoundation.org
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* Accreditation, e.g. through ISCO https://www.internetsociety.org/tutorials/wireless-community-networks or ITU https://its-wiki.no/wiki/BasicInternet:DTC_workshop_for_development_at_ITU
 
== Next Meeting 7Dec2020, 1100-1200h Oslo Time ==
 
== Next Meeting 7Dec2020, 1100-1200h Oslo Time ==
 
using http://zoom.BasicInternet.no or https://uio.zoom.us/j/2313898139
 
using http://zoom.BasicInternet.no or https://uio.zoom.us/j/2313898139

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BasicInternet:Fontes-BasicInternet-Sana Nov2020

Title BasicInternet:Fontes-BasicInternet-Sana_Nov2020
Place ITS@Kjeller
Date, Time 2020/11/23, 1000-1200
Contact Person Sanjay Maharaj
Participants Josef.Noll, Lucrezia Biteete, Sanjay Maharaj
related to Project BasicInternet
Keywords Uganda, Digital Skills
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Notes from the meeting

Follow-up

  1. follow-up on Reports for
  • a) value perspective towards the government of Norway on how to make digital inclusion happening
  • b) innovative business models for access
  • c) Yeboo village portal - a potential for Open Source development
  1. common project proposal to UNICEF https://www.unicefinnovationfund.org/apply/child-online-safety-solutions
  2. collaboration on rural development
  3. collaboration on basic digital skills

About Basic Internet Foundation

Vision: Our vision is to improve the life of every human through free access to information on the Internet.

Our solution is two-fold; First, we reach out to areas where there is no Internet. Second, we provide Internet Lite, the freemium model for access.

BasicInternet 1.0 - The access to Internet in areas

  • Providing Internet "InfoSpots", which are Wifi Spots using the mobile network
  • Promoting free access to information
  • The InfoSpot is based on a mobile network receive antenna, a local network control centre (LNCC) and a village server
  • Reaching out to more than 20 km, as e.g. Selela where the mobile tower is about 22 km away, and Izazi, a village "behind the hill" https://basicinternet.org/it-only-takes-90-min-to-connect-izazi/

BasicInternet 2.0 - skills, regulations and inclusion

About Fontes

  • Create IT-skills education through a 4-step progress
  1. intensive 3 month program on programming and soft skills
  2. bootcamp for specific challenges posted by companies, (see village portal development). Note: typical costs USD 10.000 for 4 pupils
  3. Last mile programming, together with Laboremus
  4. Job preparation program
  • In the foundation, see the need for online learning and basic digital skills - with challenges being electricity and network
  • Have experience that only 2 out of 30 members of online courses had a smartphone
  • involved in rural-development projects, e.g. water in Western Uganda

Other topics

Next Meeting 7Dec2020, 1100-1200h Oslo Time

using http://zoom.BasicInternet.no or https://uio.zoom.us/j/2313898139