Meeting with the Mexican Embassy in Oslo
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Meeting with the Mexican Embassy in Oslo
| Title | Meeting with the Mexican Embassy in Oslo |
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| Place | Embassy of Mexico@Oslo |
| Date, Time | 2020/03/09, 1500-1630 |
| Contact Person | Jose-Juan Lopez-Portillo |
| Participants | Josef Noll, Juan Carlos Lopez Calvet, Jose-Juan Lopez-Portillo, HE Ulises Canchola Gutiérrez, Brenda Jimris-Rekve |
| related to Project | DigI, BasicInternet |
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Purpose and Outcome
The Meeting was held to update each other on the activities around National Knowledge Portal, DPGs and DTCs, as well as discuss some of the upcoming challenges for national governments.
As major outcome, agreement was reached to deepen the dialogue:
- the Embassy asked for more information on both connectivity, the freemium model for access, as well as digital health and the envisaged National Knowledge Portal.
- The Embassy is interested in connecting the Basic Internet Foundation with necessary shareholders such as the Minister of Telecom, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education.
- Regarding activities in Norway, the Embassy is interested in joining meetings such as the Visjon2030 meetings
- The government of Mexico has an implementation committee in all issues regarding SDGs in Mexico. Activities to achieve the SDGs are highly regarded,
- The Split Architecture for Freemium Access to Internet has a clear potential to contribute to affordable Internet.
Introduction by the Embassy of Mexico
The Embassy of Mexico emphasises the need for change in order to answer the societal challenges. Some of the aspects being addressed were:
- The need to bring value and valuable services to the society (information is not enough)
- The need for digital empowerment to answer the challenges of Society5.0
- Mexico has an ambitious plan for a.o. national health, already providing apps for pregnant women
- The power of implementation should remain with the government, as digital inclusion is a societal challenge,
As for many other governments, challenges are
- to establish infrastructure, especially in rural areas. In this case, the government of Mexico has developed a health application for the pregnant women to help monitor their pregnancy
- to provide good connectivity to the Internet. The government has had some ongoing discussions with Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook on how to provide solutions with regards to connectivity
- to ensure that everyone has access to the Internet (equality for access)
Goals of the Basic Internet Foundation
This part is extended such that it can be shared directly with relevant shareholders.
In order to reach the targets for SDG 3 and SDG 4, digital inclusion and societal empowerment is a key area. The University of Oslo (UiO) and Kjeller Innovation have established the Basic Internet Foundation (BasicInternet.org), to foster solely on connecting the unconnected. The Foundation has established the the concept Internet Lite for All, the free access to information for everyone. furthermore, the Foundation
- has the vision to improve the life of every human through free access to information on the Internet
- promotes and provides the Freemium model for access
- builds Information spots with free access to information, and premium access to broadband services.
Basic Internet Foundation enforces the need to empower the society by fostering trust, and ensuring how this trust as a value proposition is achieved. This value proposition has all to do with the digital participation by the people.
The Government of Norway (Research Council of Norway, Norad and MfA) supports the work of the Foundation through the Non-discriminating Access for Digital Inclusion' (DigI project), involving 11 partners from 9 countries. As part of the DigI project, the consortium has connected 10 villages in Tanzania (see DigI:Villages) and established the basis for local communities building information spots.
The provision of digital health information through publicly available information spots in remote villages has shown tremendous success.
The work of the Foundation was recognised by the United Nations' High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation, and was cited as an example by the Norwegian Parliament Report Digital transformasjon og utviklingspolitikken (Stortinget Meld. St. 11, 2019–2020). See further details at DigI:Publications.
National Knowledge Portal for Mexico
What is a National Knowlege Portal, see Video by Digital Skills Foundation - https://owncloud.basicinternet.org/index.php/s/TCH1zu9G5iL63qp
With regards to content creation on the portal, the government should not define what content should be on portal before providing it to the portal but rather allow the content be put on the portal then what is perceived as valuable to the citizenry can be selected as per its need to empower the society.
The question of network neutrality by the Government of Mexico on the Knowledge Portal emphasised the need to "filter after the content type and not after the content"
There is a need to define the set of protocols now hat is given in the free layer of the portal.
