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Ongoing discussions

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

• 4Feb 1300-14h DigI:DigI_Meeting_Feb_2020

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

1. Norhead - June2020

2. CovidInfo full call 30Mar2020

• outline 16March, see owncloud = 2020CovidInfo-NFR

2. Botnar - 27Mar2020 - Fit for the Future call: Foundation Botnar https://www.fondationbotnar.org/fit-for-the-future-call/

• see owncloud = 2020Botnar-FitForFuture
• need to coordinate with Andrea Winkler and Illona Kickbusch
• A call for innovative proposals that leverage data and frontier technologies for the health and wellbeing of young people
• 27Mar2020 deadline - innovative approaches for health & education (not infrastructure)
• may be involve Annemijn Perrin with her National Knowledge Portal (AI, data driven knowledge) - DTCs
• Danica will start with the proposal document (Objectives, and what do we want to achieve)
• Dar-es-Salaam (2nd city) - city administration (Felix?)
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/13xvTj6ahc88fkH4LEZ8lQID9_9kMBca1/edit

4. DEADLINE?: 10 Million CHF Grant Funding for Youth Technology

• https://www.ictworks.org/improve-adolescent-wellbeing-technology/#.Xl-FsS2ZMzU
• Ghana collab possible, Ministry of Communication and GIFEC

3 *Invite ourselves* as partner - International partnership building between European and African innovation hubs - ID: ICT-58-2020 https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/ict-58-2020

• Please check all instances of this call - the menu on the left of the webpage is the content of this call - WHO?
• European Innovation Hubs, a catalogue of Digital Innovation Hubs in Europe https://s3platform.jrc.ec.europa.eu/digital-innovation-hubs-tool
• list of digital innovation hubs for the first call= who are looking for partners: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/how-to-participate/interested-org-list/31115305

4. An empowering, inclusive Next Generation Internet - ID: ICT-57-2020

• https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/ict-57-2020
• this one is more on the tech side. - @Kathe and @Brenda had a meeting with the commissionair in Trondheim

Trello

see cards under: https://trello.com/c/OYi1Fy8c

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

Paket with access to schools - funds required "we will provide as a loan".

• answering SDG target 4.1.1. directly (% of schools connected to Internet)
• collaboration with Digital Skills Foundation

Innovation Norway

• Deadline 28Feb2020 with FAIR and others

Norec proposal

• with Kenya and Uganda, Brenda develops
• Proposal submitting on Wednesday (12Feb2020), still discussing if UiO is partner or just supporting

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

Other - Logo

• "reconsider", looks like a social dating site?
• introduce an antenna?

Events & Publications

If you know where we are involved, create a meeting:

• Internet Governance Forum in Nov2020 in Poland - Catherine has asked for a booth and a panel - concept note to be written

• 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