BasicInternet:Ongoing

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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

1. Norhead - June2020

  • See the full call in MFA/Norad’s Grants Portal (since 20 March 2020).
  • For a detailed outline of NORHED II, see Programme Document.
  • The application deadline is extended to Friday 26 June, 2020, at 13:00 CET.
  • Norad aims at signing agreements by the end of 2020 for projects to begin early 2021.

2. COVID-19 video

  • not submitted - CovidInfo full call 31Mar2020 - outline 16March, see owncloud = 2020CovidInfo-NFR

3. Botnar - 14Apr2020 15:00h - Fit for the Future call: Foundation Botnar https://www.fondationbotnar.org/fit-for-the-future-call/

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

5 *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

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



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".

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

  • "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