When the Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) was defined in the late 1970s, 32-bit addresses were seen as sufficient to cope with the future growth in terms of connected devices. However, with the rapid growth of the Internet in the 1980s it quickly became obvious that the Internet would run out of addresses relatively quickly. […]

The grant to the project “Improved Carrier Access in Rural Emergencies (ICARE)” by Innovadors Lab Pvt Ltd and School of Computer and Information Science, IGNOU (India) was cancelled in August 2016. ICARE project shall offer timely pick-up and drop-back transportation to rural population in emergencies and adverse health situations for 100,000 rural citizens living in pilot […]

The project was for building a long range hybrid wireless network in the villages near Manaslu Himalaya region of Nepal using Wi-Fi (2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz) and TV White Space (472 MHz to 698 MHz) spectrums to bring broadband Internet for the villagers. Later it was also decided to use VHF (192.5 MHz to […]

In low resource countries qualified doctors for medical care is not available to the majority of the people who lives in rural areas. Telemedicine offers an acceptable solution to this problem. Previous to the ISIF Asia grant, our organization developed and tested on the field a PC based telemedicine system with several diagnostic devices like […]

Most telecommunications networks in the Pacific interconnect in Asia, Australia, or the United States. This has a profound impact on both the cost and the performance of regional traffic. It discourages regional interactions, and in particular erects barriers to research and education. Many stakeholders in the Pacific do not fully understand the impact overseas interconnection […]

Research project to evaluate the potential impact in Jamaica of the use of Open Data and international standards about participatory budgeting to render budgeting at the national level more effective and include and promote civic participation.

The project seeks to offer an alternative, less costly tool for the safe storage of information. In order to implement data security technologies, an organization that handles confidential data has to resort to the use of cryptographic keys. The most widely used technology to store keys securely is HSM, which can be very costly for […]

Ichangemycity.com was a hyper-local social change network that has created communities of citizens in Bengaluru, keen on solving city centric problems and has resolved around 10,000 complaints by connecting them to various government agencies. The site has tried to help solve issues ranging from garbage collection, poor street lighting, potholes and security related issue in […]

This project aimed to devise newer and effective ways for bringing a rapid change in healthcare domain for rural communities. The project has launched Jaroka to lower the cost of delivering care dramatically by leveraging ICT to deliver the scarcest resource, medical expertise, remotely. Jaroka Tele-Healthcare model utilized internet and mobile platform to extend tele-healthcare […]

Piksel Indonesia was creative social enterprise founded in 2007 and registered as legal entity in 2009. Piksel Indonesia was the creator of Batik Fractal and jBatik Software. Through a yearlong research about batik and science, we then developed a modeling software application to create batik design generatively and presented the innovation in 10th Generative Art […]