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== Kenya ==
 
== Kenya ==
 
Kenya: Business mission with Innovation Norway and Norwegian African Business Association (NABA)
 
Kenya: Business mission with Innovation Norway and Norwegian African Business Association (NABA)
* Brenda will participate, see ????
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* Brenda is with the business mission in Kenya
 
* Hackathon as part of AHERI conference - meeting entry???
 
* Hackathon as part of AHERI conference - meeting entry???
  

Revision as of 09:14, 10 February 2020

Ongoing discussions

here we have some internal notes on the status of the activities

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

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

Innovation Norway

  • Deadline 28Feb2020 with FAIR and others

Norec proposal

  • with Kenya and Uganda, Brenda develops

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

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