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

[Barrack Otieno]

Sure will do asap, apologies to other listers, had one of those light
bulb moments when i saw your response and included the list in my
reply.

Regards

On 9/21/15, Brian Munyao Longwe <blongwe at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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,”
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> http://www.wired.com/2015/09/heres-real-way-get-internet-next-4-billion-people/
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