by Josef Noll | Jul 6, 2019 | Digital inclusion, Internet access
"Free access to Information" should be a human right in the digital age. Does sound right, does it? We know that our children are digital, we know that we have to have digital skills if we want to have decent work. So, why don't we have free access to information...
by Danica Radovanovic | Jun 21, 2019 | Digital cooperation, Digital inclusion, Internet access
On 10/6/2019, the UN High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation launched its report “Age of Digital Interdependence"with recommendations where the Basic Internet Foundation, with its DigI project efforts around the word was an ideal epitome for Global Digital Inclusion...
by Danica Radovanovic | May 13, 2019 | DigI project, Digital cooperation, Digital divide, Digital inclusion, Internet access
With a very rapid development of Internet technologies, new digital divides on the Internet are emerging. The rapid pace of new forms of communication and new access points to the Internet, such as mobile, demand solutions beyond those exclusively concerned with...
by Josef Noll | May 4, 2019 | DigI project, Digital health, Internet access, Partners, School connectivity
The Migoli High School has 1271 pupils (Apr2019) and 35 full-time teachers. The high school is located about 3 km outside of Migoli in the Iringa district in Tanzania. Entering the Nyerere High School in Migoli Despite the near-by mobile towers, providing 3G from...
by Josef Noll | May 4, 2019 | DigI project, Digital inclusion, Internet access, Partners
We selected Izazi, one of the villages in the Iringa district in Tanzania, as a pilot site for providing Internet Lite for All. Izazi is located at the Mtera dam, and it's only about 11 km to the towers providing Mobile Broadband. Though, we had heard: "we can't...
by Danica Radovanovic | Apr 30, 2019 | Digital divide, Digital health, Digital inclusion, Human Rights, Internet access
The internet is not a static set of tools or affordances for a specific set of user-defined purposes. Rather, it represents a rapidly evolving set of ways to configure social life. The situation is problematic with regards to the notion of a digital divide being...
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