Subject: Re: [gaia] gaia Digest, Vol 59, Issue 3

From: Haziq Jeelani <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 05:13:08 -0500

As good as its to be on the mailing list to see the new calls for
contribution and actions and events, i feel the purpose of these calls for
contributions and actions is not fully served as they don't reach the
anticipated audience in time and is the information is limited to the
mailing lists only. Most of the times people still have to pass on the
information to their own immediate contacts and that still defeats the
purpose of a public open call for participation.  There are few groups on
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/opencallai/  and Linkedin
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12182909/ where a community of people
exists who are looking for open calls for participation. I think posting to
these groups would broaden the scope of these calls and allow people who
are not subscribing to these mailing lists have a chance to participate

Regards
Haziq

On Tue, Oct 2, 2018, 3:01 PM <[email-masked] wrote:

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>    1. Re: Connecting the Ocean View community (Jim Forster)
>    2. Re: ISOC, Facebook Partner to Expand Internet Connectivity in
>       Africa (Arjuna Sathiaseelan)
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> From: Jim Forster <[email-masked]>
> To: Arjuna Sathiaseelan <[email-masked]>
> Cc: gaia <[email-masked]>, Jonathan Endersby <[email-masked]>,
> Ian B Thomson <[email-masked]>
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> Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2018 22:17:24 +0200
> Subject: Re: [gaia] Connecting the Ocean View community
> Another initiative in Cape Town is Too Much WiFi (toomuchwifi.co.za).
> They’ve got about 500 Access point deployed in various townships (Joe
> Slovo, Vygrond, Imizamo Yethu, Dunoon) and are growing rapidly.  It’s
> founded by Jonathan and Ian, cc’d.  Full disclosure: my company, INI,
> invested in them last year.
>
> I think this group would not necessarily call it a Community Network, as
> it’s a commercial entity with a pre-paid WiFi service, but they offer much,
> much cheaper access (5x-10x) than mobile operators.  Also, an important
> part of their strategy is that about 30% of the gross revenue stays in the
> community, in the form of salaries, commissions to agents, and special
> programs to schools, community centers, Early Childhood Development
> Centers, etc.  In some cases students with little or no money can ‘Work for
> WiFi’ and earn hundreds of megabytes of data credits by helping explain the
> service, etc.
>
> I was in Vrygrond with the team the other month.  A couple people drove
> by, saw the Too Much WiFi shirts and stopped and said “What?? Too Much
> WiFi??  There’s never too much WiFi!”.  So true!  :-)
>
>   — Jim
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>
> On Sep 16, 2018, at 10:40 AM, Arjuna Sathiaseelan <
> [email-masked]> wrote:
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> this will be of interest: Our ongoing work in Capetown using Opencellular
> and wireless (WiFi and tvws) mesh powered by blockchain for payments and a
> host of localised services
>
> https://www.news.uct.ac.za/article/-2018-09-04-connecting-the-ocean-view-community
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Arjuna Sathiaseelan <[email-masked]>
> To: Jane Coffin <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Marco Zennaro <[email-masked]>, gaia <[email-masked]>
> Bcc:
> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 12:24:27 +0100
> Subject: Re: [gaia] ISOC, Facebook Partner to Expand Internet Connectivity
> in Africa
> Thanks Jane,
>
> there are couple of papers that would be of interest:
>
> 1. Exploring and Analysing the African Web Ecosystem,
> http://sathiaseelan.org/docs/[email-masked] - that just got
> published.
> 2. Deep Diving into Africa’s Inter-Country Latencies,
> http://sathiaseelan.org/docs/africa-internet.pdf - published earlier this
> year
>
> Regards
>
>
> On Mon, 1 Oct 2018 at 14:09, Jane Coffin <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Arjuna –
>>
>>
>>
>> This is very much a community-based project with the end-game of
>> strengthening Af-IX, local IXPs, and local tech community and NOGs.
>>
>> Stay-tuned for more data.
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>> Best,
>>
>> Jane
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>> Internet Society | www.internetsociety.org
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>> *From: *gaia <[email-masked]> on behalf of Arjuna Sathiaseelan <
>> [email-masked]>
>> *Date: *Friday, September 28, 2018 at 3:18 AM
>> *To: *Marco Zennaro <[email-masked]>
>> *Cc: *"[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
>> *Subject: *Re: [gaia] ISOC, Facebook Partner to Expand Internet
>> Connectivity in Africa
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>> imho,
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>> i think we should have a consortium (similar to TIP) headed by ISOC (and
>> not FB), bringing in major service providers including african content
>> providers and start a movement towards incentivising IXP deployments,
>> peering & local content.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>>
>> On 27 September 2018 at 16:27, Marco Zennaro <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>
>> Looking forward to GAIA-ers comments on this news:
>>
>>
>>
>> https://allafrica.com/stories/201809260490.html
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>>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Marco
>>
>>
>>
>> Marco Zennaro, PhD // Research Officer // T/ICT4D Lab // ICTP //
>> wireless.ictp..it <http://wireless.ictp.it>
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