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

Mon Sep 21 11:34:16 EAT 2015

We've been saying this for a while at Angani. 

Similar article was written by Quartz. http://qz.com/472028/why-your-internet-connection-is-slow-wherever-you-are-in-africa/

Infrastructure is the solution

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Phares 

> On 21 Sep 2015, at 11:26 AM, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
> 
> 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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