SchoolConnectivity TZ 8Apr2021

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SchoolConnectivity TZ 8Apr2021

Title	School Connectivity TZ 8Apr2021
Place	Zoom.us
Date, Time	2021/04/08, 1400-1500
Contact Person	Catherine R. Kimambo
Participants	Josef.Noll, Rosalynn Mworia, Catherine R. Kimambo, Sandra Oswald, Salome Mtali
related to Project	School Connectivity TZ, BasicInternet
Keywords	School Connectivity

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Purpose

Provide the status for the School Connectivity project in Tanzania and discuss follow-up.

• 10 schools in 10 areas connected
• Excellent cooperation with local governments
• Good synergy between Vodacom Education portal and local content

Lessons learned

• How can we "top-up" when more than 10 GB is needed?
  A: Vodacom will open for a B2B contract, needs further discussion
• educational funds assigned to every school, supporting the installation
• Students will learn something valuable

Best praxis

• digital friends, local NGOs assist
• learning content, made available offline
• restricting sites that can be visited by the students and teachers
• diret involement of local government through TAMISEMI

Challenges

• network fluctuation in completely isolated areas - example: Simanjiro (Emboreet secondary school)
  A: The 3G network is
• lack of digital skills to non-IT teachers

Wishes from the schools and follow up:

• learning platform with teach involvement: teachers can download and make available for all children
• voucher for e.g. 1h, 4h, 24h access of teachers to the Internet (see BasicInternet:Voucher_Platform)
• top-up for schools
• business model for "wholesale", e.g. 10 SIM cards and 100 GB
• Reporting back from operators on usage in schools
• Applicability for Affordable Access in institutions such as schools, hospitals and communities
• Measuring the usage in the apps (Shuledirect, Vodacom Portal, Internet Lite)
• Scalability to 1000 and 5000 schools

Vodacom recommendations

• B2B contact (regional, national governments)

Contributing to Digitising Tanzania (MCIT)

1) increasing from 45% to 69% (end 2021) to 80% broadband coverage (Vodacom) - MCIT 100% by 2030

2) education: health - network agnostic access to education content on Vodacom platform

Vodacom Foundation:

• health education - open funds - maternal health programme
• business model for wholesale (B2B)
• MoH platform: 100, 80, 50% finance support of subscription for health spots
• UCSAF: TZS 130 million/site to upgrade areas to mobile broadband

Way ahead and next steps

• Implement the Vodacom portal and ask the schools feedback: https://e-fahamu.vodacom.co.tz (implemented)
• follow-up B2B wholesale (feedback on our models)
• Tanzania MCIT strategy
• Health platform/portal
• UCSAF: scale up - sustainable business model: Document describing options for a sustainable business model

Way ahead

• Follow-up meeting on 29Apr2021, 1400-1500h CEST (1500-1600h TZ time)
• Inputs for Vodacom strategy

Thumb	Title	Keywords	Date	Author/Project
	School Connectivity TZ Status Apr2021 Click to Open SchoolConnectivity TZ 8Apr2021	School Connectivity	8 April 2021	Catherine R. Kimambo

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