DigI:TZ-Hackathon Feb2020
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DigI:TZ-Hackathon Feb2020
Title | DigI Hackathon in Dar es Salaam, Feb2020 |
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Place | MUHAS@DarEsSalaam |
Date, Time | 2020/02/27, -28Feb2020 |
Contact Person | Catherine R. Kimambo, Felix Sukums |
Participants | Asanali Msangi, Joseph Bishi, Catherine R. Kimambo, Addisalem Genta Gemiya, Felix Sukums, Eden Wanyimba, Rashid Ally, Felix Sukums, Matogoro Jabera, Joseph Bishi, Christine Holst, Julius Peter, Josef Noll |
related to Project | DigI |
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Objectives
This 1,5 day hackathon will be performed to
- teach on how to "test and measure" prior to installing an information spot - Catherine
- share information amongst the groups - each participant
- perform a hackathon ("how to install") - an information spot - Addisalem
One day: Members of the DigI Hackathon had a Panel Discussion on Approaches, Challenges, and Sustainability of Community Networks.
In addition, we had a 2h Workshop and Panel with and governmental representatives to address sustainability in school connectivity
Main Take-away
The Hackathon on building information spots on 27-28Feb2020 comprised community members from 5 countries, and focussed on the technical understanding on establishing information spots with Internet Lite.
- Given the success of village/school/health facility connectivity through the DigI project, we created the walk through on how to establish the Information Spots.
- Knowledge transfer and collaboration between Norway and the participating countries was agreed to ensure local competence in establishing, operating and maintaining the information spots.
- Catherine presented the work by African Child in empowering women and girls, pointing out the need for training in addition to creating the information spots
- Given the success of the first 3 information spots, AHERI in Kenya asked for establishing 1.500 sites
- BOACSE has successfully connected two schools, and envisions to connect another 130 schools in the area of Mbeya in Tanzania.
The following were the Recommendations from the participants of the Hackathon
- 1. Improve and sustain School connectivity
- a. Forge partnership with education stakeholders e.g. ShuleDirect, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEST) and University in order to improve availability of relevant local contents which are context specific to different users
- b. UCSAF pitch this project as an education project to MEST so as we can get tax exempted on importing of network equipment
- c. UCSAF will provide the CAPEX to connect 156 (schools/villages)
- 2. Improve and sustain Information Spots in the community networks
- a. Organize a stakeholders consultative meeting with telecom operators, tower owners, regulators and relevant Ministries/Agencies to discuss policy, legal and regulatory frameworks that support non-profit community networks
- b. Discuss with mobile network operators on possibility the bulk SIM contracts for easier management of community networks connectivity
- c. Conduct sensitization of the community on paying for the monthly bundles to sustain the established connectivity/community networks
- d. Advocate the use TVs for displaying the health videos in health facilities instead of using shared tablets or other smart devices. This approach will avoid containments/transmission of infections.
- 3. Organizational support and sustainability of CNs
a. Involve local government authorities e.g. district councils in establishing, promoting and sustaining community networks (CNs) b. Promote provision of peer support among CNs within and beyond countries c. Promote use of affordable/cheap, scalable and sustainable solutions for CNs d. Promote use of cheap and renewable energy source e.g. solar power systems or batteries for powering CNs e. Cultivate multi-disciplinaries approaches/teams in establishing and managing CNs f. Conduct research on ways to establish, sustain and role of CNs in accelerating attainment of SDGs g.
Venue
The meeting will take place from Thursday 27 Feb 2020, 09:00h until Friday 28 Feb 2020 14:40h at MUHAS@DarEsSalaam in the MUHAS Harvard Room at MUHAS HD-CHPE Building, 2nd Floor.
Hotel: Cate Hotel, Dange, Dar es Salaam, http://www.catehotel.co.tz/, Asanali Msangi performs the booking
Participants
Registration is closed
Invited:
- MUHAS: Felix, Asanali
- African Child/Basic Internet TZ: Catherine, Ben
- UDESO: Eden Wanyimba
- BOACSE: Rashid Ally
- Ministry of Health/University of xxx: n.n. (Student of Elibariki)
- Joseph Bishi (Zimbabwe)
- Ethiopia: Addisalem (Univ Ambo)
- Univ Dodoma: Matogoro Jabera and colleague(?)
- University of Oslo/Basic Internet: Christine, Josef
- Ministry of Education (Uganda): Julius Peter (tbc)
- Kenya - AHERI: Barrack (tbc)
- Rwanda: Benjamin Manirafasha
- UCSAF: Albert Richard
- Internet Society: Peter Mmambo
Agenda
Thursday, 27Feb2020
- 09:00 Registration
- 09:30 Welcome (Felix Sukums)
- 09:45 Table Round
Community Connectivity & Sustainability - Workshop & Panel
- 10:00-12:30 DigI:TZ-CommunityConnectivity_Feb2020
- visit to read Main take-away and Recommendations
- 12:30 - 13:15 Lunch break
Thursday, Reporting from Community Members
- 13:15 Reports/Experiences from installations and usage - 15 min (+5 min discussion)
- presentation by each partner on challenges and best praxis in deployment
- 10:10 MUHAS (Felix/Asanali) on DigI connectivity
- 10:30 African Child (Catherine/Ben)
- 10:50 Break
- 11:05 BOACSE (Rashid)
- 11:25 AHERI (Barrack)
- 11:45 tzCNA (Matogoro)
- 13:20 Zimbabwe Community Networks (Joseph)
- 13:40 Comments by IGF (Peter)
- 13:50-14:20 Break (with ongoing discussions)
- 14:00 - 14:45 Digital transformation, Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0 (public lecture)
- 14:45 Infrastructure for Basic Internet (Josef) 10'+5'
- Voucher platform
- Internet Lite filtering, e.g. AMP protocol
- Yeboo village server
- 18:00 End of day 1
- 19:00h Dinner at Brake Point Pub, Kinondoni Rd, Dar es Salaam (tbc)
Friday 28Feb2020
- 09:00 Summary/Open Issues from day 1
- 09:40 Ideas for school/education/digital health platform
- open platform (open source)
- partnership
- National Knowledge Portal for Tanzania (Josef) - see .mp4 https://owncloud.basicinternet.org/index.php/s/gfyTAbyhLifvyja
- 10:45-10:55 Break
- 10:55 How to engage communities
- content creation
- value for the society (a valuable Internet)
- 11:45 - 12:30 lunch
- 12:30 Configuration of devices - Hands-on (
Addisalem Genta)
- Please bring your Laptop and install winbox.exe''
- https://vimeo.com/354375901 - Video with Wisam to show on how to connection
- 13:30 Error handling - what happens in the field
- 14:00 Concluding discussions, incl. recommendations from the meeting
- 14:40 End of Hackathon - further discussions
Note: Departure to Airport 14:40h, arrival 15:15h, flight departure (Brenda, Christine, Josef) 17:55
Background Material
- Sustainable Business Models for Access and Content creation -
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wm5YE_XLQfJsi_aJUpPoIsRwc7k5GVl4vv_c_pUSbfw/edit?usp=sharing
- National knowledge portal - https://owncloud.basicinternet.org/index.php/s/gfyTAbyhLifvyja