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Touchphone for My Village

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Action Plan

Steven Putter what i would like to see from projects that i advise is the following
Team: small write up about everyone in the team
Organogram: who ultimately carry responsibility
Systems: what internal systems do they have in place
Resources: Full list of resources, they usually need help with this on this side of the world as they only see one tenth of them
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Guiding Principles
I believe ones that information has been elicited properly and thoroughly for a outsider to understand, then one can begin with awareness and give the project a set of ideas that they can then choose from.

Without that information and understanding the context wrong "advise" is sure to follow, i have seen it too many times to care to remember it. 4m

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Analysis of Bhandari's case       I think we would have to come to understanding of what happened with his project before we start even working on Jonas' - DVS

Write Concept Note

 
   

Main idea:

development of Off-Grid Mobile Mesh Networks infrastructure for Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Oceania and other developing countries.

Answer question:
what the smartphones are for

what is the "deserve" factor

what outcome will it create if it was in place

Fundraising on FB, crowdfunding platforms      

maybe a gofundme campaign to buy second hand smartphones and a campaign for people to donate used smartphones using a campaign, with FB today you can boost a post to reach hundreds of thousand of people for silly money like $50

i believe if your concept note is good, with links to the projects on the ground and some background on the people that will benefit, what it will empower them to create, it can get good traction

Requirements to the Off-Grid Mobile Mesh Network

talk to people who have implemented similar systems / engineers / developers

     

Equipment for each location

touchphone models

routers?

Software

ScuttleButt?

other?

Please see the knowledge network around this page:
Off-Grid Mobile Mesh Network Software
Three options to compare / consider

Business Plan       We need a project plan that answers
What?
Where?
When?
Success measured by what?

For a business plan we need: Where will the money come from to start? Where will the money come from to keep it going? How much money can we expect in 3 months, 6 months, 1 year. And make some reasonable guesses about 5 years.

Interface between off-grid and mobile networks for data exchange      

Options:

  • sharing of individual connections
  • registering and operating as a local ISP / hub of existing mobile networks
  • installation of off-grid transmitters including those on solar and other power
Find similar cases / projects Dmitry      

 

 

Features and Data for Business Plan

  Malawi
Haiti
Notes
Cell Phone Plan
$50 / month
 

Probably not very important as it will be shared, hopefully the interface can be arranged for data sharing for the whole community

Steven: One modem or router and 5 people can connect wireless and the data is $50 per month or all to share 30gig
FaceBook use
Free on Airtel
   
WiFi router $50    
Sources of income    

Steven: "Equal opportunity, to me it is a fundamental, as nothing is for free"

Possibilities:

  • Michael: "volunteering treated like a job with responsibilites, the payment is being put on the cell phone program..."
Distances between villages      
Village population up to a few thousand    
Applications

They need girls educational,

community development and participation,

youths to be trained computing and

access to internet for them to study online as well

search and apply jobs online.You know

there is high rate of unemployment in our area,

the community good heath systems and

we can do health study via phones

we call it chipatala cha pa fone meaning healthy centre by phone where they can access health issues by phone

   

 

 


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