[kictanet] Here’s the Real Way to Get Internet to the Next 4 Billion People

[Brian Munyao Longwe]

Thanks Barrack,

I forgot to mention that all locations and equipment are solar powered as
there is very little infrastructure in Northern Uganda....

Barrack - get in touch offlist if you want to pick my brains :) or whats
left of them %)

Best regards,

Brian

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Great work and way to go for our local communities.  Practical Internet.
>
> Best Regards
>
> On 9/21/15, Brian Munyao Longwe via kictanet
> <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I was quite excited to see this article by Wired! Featured in it is the
> > work I've been doing for Oxfam's Internet Now! project in Northern Uganda
> > over the past 2 and a half years. (the guy in the photo is one of the
> > wireless internet engineers from the local community that we have trained
> > and equipped to bridge the last mile with low cost wireless technology).
> >
> > We established a social enterprise that is using internet technologies to
> > improve livelihoods for communities in this post-conflict regions. This
> is
> > mainly through making high speed broadband available to rural communities
> > at low cost. So far we have been able to establish points-of-presence in
> > the towns of Gulu, Lira, Soroti and Mbale - NGOs, corporates and
> > individuals alike have been flocking to take up the broadband services
> > after years of poor quality and expensive services from the mobile
> > operators who sell mainly data bundles that have poor performance. We
> ride
> > on Uganda's national optical fiber network (owned by the ministry of
> ICT's
> > National IT Authority - NITA-U). and from Kampala interconnect with a
> > variety of bulk providers (Seacom, Liquid Telecom, Simbanet, BCS) who are
> > connected to submarine networks via Mombasa. Our service approach has
> > greatly challenged the internet services paradigm and scored greatly with
> > our subscribers, many of whom enjoy better services in these rural towns
> > than their colleagues/counterparts in the capital Kampala.
> >
> > We also provide employment to members of the local community through a
> > specialized form on business process outsourcing known as impact sourcing
> > or more commonly as microwork. We have an average of about 60 young
> people
> > working daily to deliver digitial jobs to companies in the USA, mostly
> > Sillicon Valley. Most of them are based at a BPO delivery center we have
> > established at Gulu University with 75 workstation while others work in
> > their villages via centers that we have established in 20 sub-counties
> > across 5 districts that offer 5 workstation dedicated to BPO.
> >
> > We're very happy with the impact that the social enterprise is having in
> > the communities and I am now in the process of winding up my programme
> > management role and handing over the reins to a competent management team
> > that we have established to run the social enterprise.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Brian
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 9:28 PM, Watila Alex via kictanet <
> > kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Deploy Internet the old-fashioned way.
> >>
> >> “It’s not so sexy to build roads, but we’re not going to overcome the
> >> challenge of missing infrastructure with flying cars,”
> >>
> >>
> >>
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