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...
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 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...
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 3, 2019 | Digital divide, Digital inclusion
the potential to advance an important element of digital financial inclusion Across the developing world, financial institutions have leveraged digital technologies and innovative business models to expand access to digital financial services (DFS), such as digital...
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...
by Josef Noll | Apr 17, 2019 | Digital cooperation, Digital health, Digital inclusion, Internet access
Through it’s 7th EAC Health & Scientific Conference (EACHSC) took place on 27-29Mar2019 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Basic Internet Foundation was strongly participating with Bernard and Felix as part of the organising committee, Flora as participant, and Christine...
by Wisam Ahmed Mansour | Mar 13, 2019 | DigI project, Digital health, Digital inclusion, Internet access
The Basic Internet Foundation, together with it’s international DigI project team, brings free Internet access and envisages Digital Inclusion for everyone. This time, the destination was Tanzania connecting yet another unconnected villages. On the 4th of March 2019,...
by Josef Noll | Feb 26, 2019 | Digital cooperation, Digital divide, Digital health, Digital inclusion, Human Rights, Internet access
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – the UN’s blueprint for a better and more sustainable future for all – calls for a reduction in inequality between and within countries. Nevertheless, global inequality is increasing. So what can be done? Inequality is an...
by Josef Noll | Jan 31, 2019 | Digital cooperation, Digital inclusion, Entrepreneurship
In the era of digital technology, the structure of production as well as the interaction between humans and machines is being redefined. The diffusion and application of digital technology can increase productivity in an unprecedented manner, with potential to reshape...
