This presentation is from the 2022 IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Summit. Mark Matovu presents his team’s project, Mobile-based food supply, which is bridging the gap between food and market security through a mobile-based food supply and logistics platform that connects rural smallholder farmers with urban food retailers. Their solution was awarded the BEST OVERALL Concept […]

This presentation is from the 2022 IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Summit. Vassilis Chryssos presents his team’s project, Sarantaporo.gr Non-Profit Organization, which provided internet connectivity to the village of Sarantaporo in Elassona, Greece, which did not have any in 2010 because it is an isolated rural area in mountainous Greece. Their solution was awarded the 2nd […]

This presentation is from the 2021 IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Summit. Ignacio Prieto-Egido presents his team’s project, Platforms to Increase Sustainability and Impact of Communications Services, which proposes a feasible and sustainable strategy to deploy mobile communications (voice and data) and public services (eHealth and tele-education) in isolated communities by combining appropriate low-cost wireless technologies […]

This presentation is from the 2022 IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Summit. Jésica Giudice presents her team’s project, Semilleros de Redes Comunitarias para Aplicantes al Programa Roberto Arias, which focuses on Community Network Seedbeds (CNs); a collective learning experience with special participation of groups with presence in the territory of “living forces.” Their solution was awarded […]

This presentation is from the 2022 IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Summit. Emiliano Mroue presents his team’s project, PAYGO FTTH in LatAm’s Barrios, which focuses on providing reliable high-speed internet at reduce costs to the urban poor in LatAm’s peripheries. Their solution was awarded the 1st Place Business Models Proof of Concept prize. To hear more […]