In this Q&A, Soledad Mills talks about her team’s solution — “Internet Access in Ecuador’s Amazon” — which won 1st Place, Community Enablement Concept in the 2021 Connecting the Unconnected Challenge. We use off-the-shelf equipment and standard IEEE 802.11 unlicensed band signals to create a connection between Yawi, a Shuar Indigenous community of the southern Ecuadorian Amazon, […]
This presentation is from the 2021 IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Summit. Joaquin Aviles Lopez presents his team’s project, Aggregating Energy & Connectivity in Rural Africa – ICT Hub Model, which provides a solution for the prevalent Urban/Rural Connectivity Gap brought about by the lack of access to electricity. Their solution was awarded the 2nd Place Business […]
In this Q&A, Joaquin Aviles Lopez talks about his team’s solution — “Aggregating Energy & Connectivity in Rural Africa – ICT Hub Model – Case Study Nakivale, Uganda” — which won 2nd Place, Business Model Proof of Concept in the 2021 Connecting the Unconnected Challenge. The Urban/Rural Connectivity Gap is still very prevalent worldwide (72% […]
As the world progresses toward the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the need to bridge the digital divide becomes more apparent. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is enabled by technological advances that will combine the physical, digital, and biological worlds, thereby changing how people live. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we have begun to see this revolutionary digital shift […]
