DigI:Project

= Digital Inclusion - Project details = The detailed goals of Digital Inclusion (DigI) are available at DigI:Summary

Main findings from the first year
Through our activities in Africa we believe in the following Strategy for Digital Empowerment and Digital Inclusion.

In short:
 * Health challenges as e.g. the Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) are strongly linked to neglected people. In addition, People with NTD can’t become productive members of the society, thus will have low added value to the society and suffer from low productivity
 * Bad healthcare system pushes people into poverty. The lack of basic information, being part of the health ecosystem, has significant consequences both for decreased life expectance and increased mortality.
 * Education & Health are linked, typically the younger generation, and female members of the society are the ones suffering most.

Thus our recommendation is to address health information by Through this holistic approach in building the ecosystem for societal and digital inclusion we empower people for digital health, education, mobile money/micro-credits,
 * Building the ecosystem for societal and digital inclusion. Our contribution to this general goal is the focus on information, and especially the free access to information for all.
 * The following components are essential parts of a holistic approach: Solar and other renewable energy, light, the mobile ecosystem for digital access, and free access for information for those not part of the digital society.

Our goal is a new alliance for "Internet light for all" and Digital Rural development with Mobile operators, Telecom regulators, and Ministries, including "5G for Digital Inclusion". We expect the path of inclusion:
 * From Basic Infrastructure and Information to Health and Empowerment to Digital inclusion, Telecom business, and Socio-economic development
 * The supporting business model follows the holistic approach, addressing the partnership with Telecom, Mobile Banks, Online-shopping, and other actors.

Having identified the villages for pilot roll-out, we currently address both Internet light for all infrastructure alternatives, health messages, key performance indicators (KPI), as well as the business model for the holistic partnership for Digital Inclusion.

Structure of the work
The Project DigI is structured through 15 workpackages (WPs). The project is organised along 3 lines, being infrastructure (WP-Ix), and the pilots in Tanzania and DRC (WP-Tx, WP-Cx). The infrastructure related WPs address platform, access technology, content distribution, applications and services, and societal/business-related aspects. The specific pilots are structured along a timeline of specification, first phase pilots, evaluations and recommendations, second phase pilots, and finally the transfer towards sustainable business models for access to InfoInternet.



= Focus right now =


 * Task TI1.2 Pilot installation Kjeller
 * Task TI2.1 Health Application development
 * Task TT1.3 Selection of villages in TZ
 * Task TC1.2 Villages infrastructure in Panu and Kano

Infrastructure related WPs

 * WP-I0 Overall Management
 * WP-I1 Information-Internet infrastructure cost-effective infrastructure (satellite or radio-link), BYOD, Tablets
 * Task TI1.1 Low-cost infrastructure for InfoInternet
 * Task TI1.2 Pilot installation Kjeller
 * WP-I2 InfoInternet - Content and Apps local content (Global Health Video), Health & EDU Content
 * Task TI2.1 Health Application development
 * Task TI2.2 Creating interactivity for Health Videos
 * WP-I3 Evaluation and Global Perspective ''KPI knowledge base, literacy, "lessons learned"
 * Task TI3.1 KPIs for digital inclusion
 * Task TI3.2 Related Initiatives
 * WP-I4 Dissemination and Exploitation ''Extending the reach, addressing IT, Politics, Worldbank
 * Task TI4.1 Publications, Presentations
 * Task TI4.2 Showcase material

Work in Tanzania

 * WP-T1 Specifications for Tanzania ''Priority of content, selection of villages
 * Task TT1.1 Awareness on One Health
 * Task TT1.2 Sensitization on One Health through Apps and digital Content
 * Task TT1.3 Selection of villages in TZ
 * WP-T2 Pilot Phase A Tanzania ''Extending the network, providing (limited) content
 * Task TT2.1 Infrastructure analysis
 * Task TT2.2 Roll-out of Internet
 * WP-T3 Phase A evaluations and Phase B Specifications Lessons learned from phase A
 * Task TT3.1 Phase A evaluation
 * Task TT3.2 Phase B specifications
 * WP-T4 Pilot Phase B Tanzania Extending the reach and the services
 * Task TT4.1 Phase B content
 * Task TT4.2 Extending the reach in TZ
 * WP-T5 Tanzania Phase B evaluation and suggestions for sustainable operations Transformation into sustainable access
 * Task TT5.1 Phase B evaluation
 * Task TT5.2 Sustainable business model for health information

Work in Congo (DRC)

 * WP-C1 Specifications for Congo (DRC) satellite access extension, service selection
 * Task TC1.1 Specifications for the digital ecosystem
 * Task TC1.2 Villages infrastructure in Panu and Kano
 * WP-C2 Pilot Phase A DRC Panu and Kano connect, community center services
 * Task TC2.1 Infrastructure analysis
 * Task TC2.2 Roll-out of Internet
 * WP-C3 Phase A evaluations and Phase B Specifications ''Lessons learned from phase A
 * Task TC3.1 Phase A evaluation
 * Task TC3.2 Phase B specifications
 * WP-C4 Pilot Phase B DRC Extension to 6 villages, services for education and communities
 * Task TC4.1 Phase B content
 * Task TC4.2 Extending the reach in DRC
 * WP-C5 DRC Phase B evaluation and suggestions for sustainable operations Transformation into sustainable access
 * Task TC5.1 Phase B evaluation, service update
 * Task TC5.2 Sustainable business model for digital infrastructures