In this Q&A, Hellen Nakawungu talks about her team’s solution — “eduroam on a go to extend service to the unconnected R&E community of Uganda” — which won the Honorable Mention, Business Models Proof of Concept in the 2022 Connecting the Unconnected Challenge. 1.Please summarize your winning solution eduroam (education roaming) is an international Wi-Fi internet […]
This presentation is from the 2022 IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Summit. Tebogo Mosalakatane presents his team’s project, Digital Skills for Population in Remotest Areas — 2022 IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Challenge, which proposes a solar powered mobile internet café which will also act as a digital skills training center. Their solution was awarded the 2nd […]
In this Q&A, Tebogo Mosalakatane talks about his team’s solution — Digital Skills for Population in Remotest Areas— which won the 2nd PLACE Community Enablement Concept in the 2022 Connecting the Unconnected Challenge. 1.Please summarize your winning solution Connecting the Unconnected in remotest areas of Africa requires comprehensive solutions. Our goal is to bridge the digital […]
This presentation is from the 2021 IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Summit. Filippo Malandra presents his team’s project, OVERCOME21: CBRS Deployment in the Fruit Belt Neighborhood in Buffalo, NY, which installed a private LTE network over CBRS to provide broadband internet access to the underserved Fruit Belt community in Buffalo, NY. Their solution was awarded the […]
In this Q&A, Filippo Malandra talks about his team’s solution — OVERCOME21: CBRS Deployment in the Fruit Belt Neighborhood in Buffalo, NY— which won the 2nd Place Technical Applications Proof of Concept in the 2021 Connecting the Unconnected Challenge. 1.Please summarize your winning solution We installed a private LTE network over CBRS to provide broadband internet […]
This presentation is from the 2022 IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Summit. Kurtis Heimerl & Esther Jang present their team’s project, Scaling the Seattle Community Network with dAuth and the “Teaching Network”, which leverages new advances in private cellular networks (“Private LTE”) and shared spectrum (“CBRS”, the Citizens Broadband Radio Service) to develop and deploy new […]
In this Q&A, Esther Jang talks about her team’s solution — Scaling the Seattle Community Network with dAuth and the “Teaching Network”— which won the BEST OVERALL Proof of Concept prize, sponsored by VMware in the 2022 Connecting the Unconnected Challenge. 1.Please summarize your winning solution Our team is leveraging new advances in private cellular networks […]
.This presentation is from the 2022 IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Summit. Edwin Mugume presents his team’s project, Affordable Internet Access Devices Through E-Waste Recycling, which proposes to exploit e-waste from desktop computers, laptops, and related devices by harvesting useful components and reusing them to create computers in good working condition. These computers are then repackaged […]
In this Q&A, Edwin Mugume talks about his team’s solution — “Affordable Internet Access Devices Through E-Waste Recycling” — which won 1st PLACE Community Enablement Concept, in the 2022 Connecting the Unconnected Challenge. Our winning solution focuses on recycling e-waste from desktop and laptop computers for reuse in rural schools to enhance ICT education and access in […]
This presentation is from the 2021 IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Summit. Dr Subrat Rout presents his team’s project, InterGram: Advanced Digital Development Centers for Delivering Essential Community Services over High-speed Broadband in Rural India, which addresses the issue of the growing rural-urban digital divide which prevents the rural population from fully participating in the digital […]
