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Followup with Unafundo

Title	Followup with Unafundo Aug2020
Place	ITS@Kjeller
Date, Time	2020/08/21, 1700:18:30
Contact Person	Brenda Jimris-Rekve
Participants	Josef Noll, Wenzile Madonsela Msimanga, Khulekile Msimanga, Sanjay Maharaj, Brenda Jimris-Rekve
related to Project	DigI, Basic Internet
Keywords	Unafundo, InfoSpot

Agenda

Wenzile and Khulekile presented their idea to the rest. Unafundo as a gateway for Basic Internet into the South African ecosystem (Communities, mobile providers and companies)
Provide entrepreneurship through skills development on the African Continent
Unafundo's alignment map zeros in on economic exclusion, lack of financial education and improvement of living standards which they will be addressing through this partnership
Their value offering will entail provision of data relating to potential rollout hotspot, monitoring of the rollout process and project management and community training

Sanjay briefly explained how our synergies can assist in - especially rural areas - getting people connected to the internet in particular businesses, entrepreneurs, students, and, getting out e-health information especially relating to COVID19
How providing internet connectivity can provide digital goods and also reduce the digital divide through our collaboration
Unafundo works with people in charge of wifi installation, communities(focusing on digital financial education content via the internet) and provision of entrepreneurial skills

He explained the technical side and shared the success project in Tanzania. BIF can reach out >20 km from a mobile tower. However, the hot spot only covers Wi-Fi range - typically 50 meters - getting a bigger reach means adding new hot-spots (can be taken from the centre one).
Hence, from a hot spot BIF typically can reach out to another Wi-Fi access point 3-5 km away. E.g. school is the central Wi-Fi, and from there the primary health facility and the community centre can be reached.
Professor Noll said that the presentation clearly demonstrates how our organisations have commons objectives and then took all through the technical side of the BIF.
Josef highlights that Unafundo will kick-start the project by following three main steps as described on the our Wiki BasicInternet.no

(1) Identifying 2-3 communities as a start

(2) Identify needs within these communities and community empowerment agenda

(3)Have a person within the community taking measurements for the information spots (preferably a youth with a smart phone)

we need to do some preparation work to get these info spots out to you. For that preparation step – that is what we call the How To page. BasicInternet:How_To

Wenzile and Khulekile will need three weeks before next meeting for project proposal to be formulated
Khulekile and Wenzile will tap into the technological aspect of the Basic Internet's system operation

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lkxFhXbo6_cSBgqHl_t62WkfErwjyvfBQUZDxzVhjp0/edit  -The models i.e tax reduction, license regulation, wholesale approach, Giving vouchers and paying the person giving the vouchers get paid etc
The products we use and our solutions- working with ISPs and mobile operators
- We focus on Mikrotik, as they have competitive products and a scalable solution https://mikrotik.com/products 
- Our simplest solution is the InfoSpot, consisting just of an Mobile Network receive antenna and a Local Network Control Centre (LNCC), see BasicInternet:Solutions 
We have created a "step by step" way on how to establish InfoSpots in villages/schools/communities, see BasicInternet:How_To - Please help in criticizing, as we need to get better in a text which is understandable