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* Feb2018: Meeting at the Norwegian Embassy in Dar es Salaam with Ministry of Health, Ministry of Communications and Mobile Operators to reach agreement on ''pilots in business models''
 
* Feb2018: Meeting at the Norwegian Embassy in Dar es Salaam with Ministry of Health, Ministry of Communications and Mobile Operators to reach agreement on ''pilots in business models''
 
* April2018: Consortium meeting in TZ with focus on roll-out and first results
 
* April2018: Consortium meeting in TZ with focus on roll-out and first results
* '''new''' May2018: Meeting with shareholders
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* '''new''' May2018: Meeting with shareholders (see alliances) for reporting on our achievements. Suggested to create ''Interim Report'' for this purpose.
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* Summer 2018: plans for ''showcase Tanzania: Connecting the Unconnected 4000 villages'' (with WHO, ITU-D, GSMA,...)
  
 
==Content for Digital Health==
 
==Content for Digital Health==

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DigI:DigI demonstration Norad

Title DigI demonstration Norad
Place ITS
Date, Time 2017/11/28, 0930-1130
Contact Person Josef.Noll
Participants Haitham El-noush, Christine Holst, Ingeborg K Haavardsson, Elibariki Mwakapeje, Andrea Winkler, Josef Noll
related to Project DigI
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Agenda

0930 Welcome
0940 Table round
1000 Visiting the Hot-spot
1015 Status DigI project
1030 Open discussion
1130 end of meeting

Minutes

Visiting the Hot-spot

The hot-spot has been established, and costs around USD 300, including a solar panel, the solar/battery controller, battery, USB chargers for phones/tablets and light. Given the infrastructure sharing with Telecom operators into the village, we expect to re-use the mobile tower to distribute Internet to hot-spots being as long as 7 km away. These Wifi hot-spots will be typically placed where people meet, e.g. health spots, schools, market places, governmental buildings.

In the DigI project we have established information material, and currently perform the site survey to establish the connectivity to 3 villages (Phase A) and later on 10 villages (Phase B). Please read more at: DigI:TT1.3

Due to snow and bad light conditions, the battery of the pilot installation lacks power. Thus no content could be shown at the hot-spot. However, the first version of the content is available at http://digi.futurecompetence.net Further health messages are developed, mainly by "converting paper" into video, animations and evtl games. The "games" will be limited to some cases, given the development effort.

Status DigI project

Presentation by Christine on DigI status in Tanzania

  • see all Presentations in DigI, as well as white papers
  • We have an extremely engaging team with participants from 8 countries amongst the 11 partners in DigI.
  • The multi-national and multi-disciplinary team with 11 partners from 8 countries (Tanzania, Norway, Germany, Rwanda, Serbia, DR Congo, France and Spain) share knowledge in a variety of disciplines such natural sciences, mathematics, information technology, humanities, social sciences and medicine, including veterinary medicine.
  • We have good progress, and our people on the ground do a marvellous job to get the agreements for the phase A villages.
  • We currently have about 6 months delay in TZ, due to the long negotiations with NFR on the legal status (undertaking?) of the "Basic Internet Foundation", and subsequently hiring of PhD candidates. Thus, main work only started in September 2017.
  • However, the time-plan suggests that we are able to catch-up prior to Phase B, though we might want to spend good time to get decent results in the intervention studies.
  • Good support from Jon Hansen

Time-plan

  • now (Nov/Dec2017): Agreements with district authorities, village authorities and mobile operators in the selected villages
  • Feb2018: Meeting at the Norwegian Embassy in Dar es Salaam with Ministry of Health, Ministry of Communications and Mobile Operators to reach agreement on pilots in business models
  • April2018: Consortium meeting in TZ with focus on roll-out and first results
  • new May2018: Meeting with shareholders (see alliances) for reporting on our achievements. Suggested to create Interim Report for this purpose.
  • Summer 2018: plans for showcase Tanzania: Connecting the Unconnected 4000 villages (with WHO, ITU-D, GSMA,...)

Content for Digital Health

The Open Discussion addressed the following topics

USCAF - Connectivity funds

Collaborations

  • Centre for Global Health (UiO, TU München)
  • HiOA - UiO (along the
  • UNOG - United Nations Geneva around #DigitalGeneva
  • ITU-WHO - MoU on Africa
  • African Alliance on Digital Health
  • TZ focus from the Gates Foundation

Roadmap/Strategy

  • Link to outbreak

Outbreak response

  • Anthrax
  • timely