In this Q&A, Sarat Pradhan talks about his team’s solution — “InterGram: Advanced Digital Development Centers for Delivering Essential Community Services over High-speed Broadband in Rural India” — which won 1st Place Technology Applications Proof of Concept prize, sponsored by Intelsat, in the 2021 Connecting the Unconnected Challenge. 1. Please summarize your winning solution Since the outbreak of […]
In this Q&A, the TDR Team talks about their team’s solution — “Antenna MiMo 5Ghz” — which won Honorable Mention Technology Applications Proof of Concept in the 2022 Connecting the Unconnected Challenge. Our project is motivated by the desire of spreading a community internet network over our territory, born from the need for access to communication, which […]
This presentation is from the 2021 IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Summit Rahma Utami & Noor Muhammad present their team’s project, Ba11y, Crowdsource a11y reporting platform, which is a crowdsource digital accessibility reporting tool. It allows PwD to report a website, an app, or a specific page on a website and app with an accessibility issue. […]
In this Q&A, Rahma Utami & Noor Muhammad talk about their team’s solution — “Ba11y, Crowdsource a11y reporting platform” — which won Best Overall Concept, sponsored by Microsoft in the 2021 Connecting the Unconnected Challenge. BA11Y is an accessibility reporting platform designed to enable people with disabilities to report accessibility issues they face while using websites, web […]
This presentation is from the 2021 IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Summit. David Johnson presents his team’s project, Empowering Digital Participation and Affordable Access through the iNethi Platform, which offers a flexible and powerful interface to empower communities to leverage wireless communications to share content and services. iNethi empowers wider digital participation, fosters recognition of local […]
In this Q&A, David Johnson talks about his team’s solution — “Empowering Digital Participation and Affordable Access Through the iNethi Platform” — which won 1st Place, Community Enablement Proof of Concept in the 2021 Connecting the Unconnected Challenge. iNethi (ʻnethiʼ translates to ʻnetworkʼ in isiXhosa) provides an open source community-based services and content sharing platform to take […]
This presentation is from the 2022 IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Summit. Ritu Srivastava & Omar Pervez present their team’s project, Community Radio Bolo which is a cost-effective wireless-network hybrid model (online and offline mesh network) specifically designed for community radio stations where broadband internet is either not available or scarcely accessible. Their solution was awarded […]
In this Q&A, Ritu Srivastava talks about her team’s solution — “Community Radio Bolo: An IVR Enabled Online-Offline Wireless Mesh Network enabling local D2C communication for SHGs in rural Orissa” — which won 1st Place, Technology Application Concept in the 2022 Connecting the Unconnected Challenge. 1. Please summarize your winning solution CR Bolo, an initiative of Jadeite […]
This presentation is from the 2021 IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Summit. Soledad Mills presents her team’s project, Internet Access in Ecuador’s Amazon, which proposes using internet connectivity to bridge the digital divide in developing countries and for the indigenous people. Their solution was awarded the 1st Place Community Enablement Concept prize. You can also read […]
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, […]
