All Girls Tech Camp

All Girls Tech Camp builds awareness of the various career options in STEM field for girls. The aim is to Improve digital literacy among girls. All Girls Tech Camp created a platform that builds and nurtures self-esteem and confidence in girls, help them compete and succeed in the world of computers and information technology and create positive […]

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Kids Comp Camp

The overall goal of Kids Comp Camp is to equip young learners in marginalised communities with digital literacy skills. The specific objectives were to expose young learners, who have no prior experience with digital devices, to their ‘First Digital Experience’ through interacting with different digital devices, to teach the learners to operate these devices for […]

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DocmeUP, Prenatal care for communities and remote ultrasound imaging

DocmeUP promote antenatal care. A health worker can monitor her own community, and is able to continuously communicate with her community and remind them to go to the closest clinic. Moreover, health workers can also now detect dangerous signs on her patients and report them immediately to the clinic or ambulance. An easy way to […]

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Tobetsa and WiFi TV Extension Project

Tobetsa is Tshwane Free WiFi’s unlimited access content portal which provides users with content and resources to develop and grow the knowledge and skills of low-income, under-served communities who benefit from Free WiFi. Tobetsa features WiFi TV content: hyper-local, mobile video content produced by young, aspiring videographers from local communities. As Tobetsa has grown into […]

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Legalese

Legalese.io, an open-source project in the FinTech+LegalTech domain, developed a web app to make it possible for SME and started up entrepreneurs in Asia to structure, produce, and execute the legal agreements needed to finance their businesses from angel and crowdfunding sources. The underlying technology made it possible to formalise legal agreements in a domain-specific […]

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Towards A Fairer Electoral System: 1 Person, 1 Vote, 1 Value

The project has brought the following benefits to the community: Lowered the barriers to effective objections to the Electoral Delimitation process, whereby a hitherto impossible task has now been made possible. Provided free and open access through the Internet to our equalized digital maps and objections menu to assist electors make representations, counter-proposals and objections […]

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UAV-Aided Resilient Communications for Post Disaster Applications: Demonstrations and Proofs of Concept

We have had extensive expertise in the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), in conjunction with specialized imaging payloads for various applications in precision agriculture, infrastructure development, disaster preparedness and immediate post-disaster response. Our team has been called on multiple times in post disaster situations such as the following: a 3-man UAV spotter group embedded […]

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Realistic simulation of uncoded, coded and proxied Internet satellite links with a flexible hardware-based simulator

The remoteness of many Pacific Islands often combines with small populations and low GDP to make connection to international fibre networks prohibitively expensive. The only alternative for local ISPs are satellite connections. While widespread, satellite connections are expensive and island users often complain about slow speeds and connection timeouts. Efficient use of the satellite resource […]

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Equal Access to the Information Society in Myanmar

This project aimed to combine and scale two programs that have been delivering significant impact for people in Myanmar who are having their first experience with digital technologies. The two programs are Mobile Information Literacy, and Tech Age Girls. For the proposed program, the focus was on women and youth, benefiting 500 people through 20 […]

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A Peering Strategy for the Pacific Islands

This research continued and expanded a set of Internet measurements of latency to Pacific Island telecommunications providers from various locations around the world, established with funding from ISIF and the University of Oregon’s Network Startup Resource Center. When evaluated in conjunction with submarine cable availability, the measurements can be used to determine a metric for […]

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