IPv6 Training in Uganda and Route Server Implimentation at UIXP
Project organizer: Wilson Abigaba, Global Member
By providing IPv6 training in 11 Uganda Universities and implementing a route server at the Uganda Internet Exchange Point, the project aims to increase the number of ISPs and organizations peering at the Uganda Internet Exchange Point (UIXP) as well as enhance security.
Empowering Artisans through Internet & Computer Education
Project organizer: Ankush Bagotra, India Bangalore Chapter
With this project, the ISOC Bangalore Chapter attempts to bridge the digital divide by infusing Internet literacy on standard business procedures among different artisan groups in and around the city of Bangalore. Internet literacy also provides the benefit of cementing the concept and importance of product development and in predicting market patterns. By connecting to the Internet, artisans will have access to web tools for selling their products to a wider demographic. Additionally, they will learn more about accounting procedures for purchases, salaries and others loan and grant applications. The Chapter will setup a basic lab infrastructure for the artisans from Self Help Groups (SHG), prepare curriculum in 3 Languages (English and 2 local languages) and deliver this online content through a series of workshops.
Integrative Internet Cafe and Media Center
Project organizer: Inge Bozenhardt, Global Member
The Integrative Internet Café and Media Center for visually impaired and sighted people in the middle of Addis Ababa city aims to create access to information, learning opportunities, and communication media on the Internet, within the blind community. Among the many goals, the project will grow blind persons’ familiarity with abstract computing and internet concepts and make Amharic and other Ethiopian languages accessible by the transcribing Amharic ink to Amharic Braille on the Braille display by the means of the open source speech reading software called NVDA. The launching of an Integrative Internet Café and Media Center will be in perfect alignment with the African Regional Action Plan for the Knowledge Economy that encourages the inclusion of people of all social classes, especially the those with special needs, in societal development and technology.
Connecter l'ecole de l'Ile de Mar
Project organizer: Alex Corenthin, Senegal Chapter
The Senegal Chapter designed the project to connect the school of the Island of March in order to continue previous work (see www.iledemar.nl). Hardware has been provided through a previous project but the school suffers from a lack of Internet connectivity. The project will enable students on this island to have access to the Internet just like other students of the world. The Chapter team will purchase the required equipment and install a connection via CDMA, purchase laptops for the teachers, and provide trainings and follow up visits to the beneficiaries.
Establishing Palestine Internet Exchange
Project organizer: Hanna Kreitem, Global Member
As of 2010, exclusivity rights of the Internet in Palestine legally ended. As a result, ISPs were able to connect to the international network without having to pass through the holder of the ended exclusivity license, Palestine Telecommunication Company (Paltel). This created a need for a national Internet exchange point, to allow Internet users in Palestine to access content provided through different ISP's networks through peered connection, without having to pass through international routes, thus making local content available at the lowest cost possible. The project feeds directly into the ongoing effort to establish the Palestine Internet Exchange (PIX). Planning for this effort started in April 2011 – the managers have created interest among Internet providers, developed the technical requirements, and the legal and operational procedures. ISPC.ps, the owner of PIX, is moving towards purchasing, installing and operating the required setup to start a pilot phase of the exchange. The project activities that will start immediately include setting up the exchange point switch, registering peers and carrying out knowledge dissemination among network administrators.
TUNAWEZA, the First Ever Website Dedicated to Young Women Survivors of Sexual Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
Project organizer: Francoise Mukuku, Global Member
The project aims to design a web portal of local blogs to give a voice to young women survivors of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as well as show their capacity of resilience and portray the women as strong personalities instead of victims. This online activity will build on previous trainings with young women by providing them a publishing platform and raising their interests in applying their communication rights. Training of trainers will be implemented at three focal points to allow an autonomous production of content from members and partners and to understand what are the specific needs and interests of the targeted users.
Kinshasa Internet Exhange Point - KINIX
Project organizer: Frederic Mutembo MFabule , Democratic Republic of Congo Chapter
The objective of the project is to create the Kinshasa Internet Exchange Point (KINIX). It will improve the Internet connection within the country and outside, and help to create an autonomous DRC segment of the Internet, which can survive even in cases of disruptions among external paths. KINIX will also provide and promote additional local services and applications and increase national content online.
Impact IPv6
Project organizer: Janvier Ngnoulaye, Cameroon Chapter
Local operators are not yet sensitized to the importance of the new protocol of the Internet, its challenges and its benefits, its impact in the management of their network as well as the deployment of services to users. In the training program in the ICT departments of universities, the Ecole Polytechnique in Yaounde, as well as training centers across the computer network in Cameroon, the current configurations are still based on the old IPv4 protocol. It is with this background that the ISOC Cameroon Chapter introduces the project in order to sensitize and educate the key players involved in the chain of development, use and deployment of IPv6, namely students, engineers and technicians of companies, trainers and teachers in information technology and communication.
Upgrading and Repositioning of the Malawi Internet Exchange (MIX)
Project organizer: Paulos Nyirenda, Global Member
Since its successful launch in 2008 and its significant positive impact on local Internet connections in Malawi, the Malawi Internet Exchange (MIX) has suffered from major changes in the network infrastructure caused by the arrival of fiber connections to undersea cables on the eastern shores of Africa. This has necessitated the need to reposition the MIX with the following objectives:
- To move it to a newly build ICT complex at the Malawi College of Medicine
- To improve access for ISPs to connect to the Internet Exchange
- To improve infrastructure and services offered by the MIX
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To improve secure access for maintenance of the Internet Exchange Point and 5) To improve capacity for more ISPs to connect
IPv6 in Action!
Project organizer: Wong Ping, Hong Kong Chapter
Despite that education and events about IPv6 have been conducted over the past four years by the Hong Kong Chapter for IT professionals and organizations, which will still be continued, very little focus has been made towards the general public and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). The Chapter is preparing to embark on an education campaign targeting these communities by combining local and international experiences in the relevant areas. It is hoped that the success of this project will become a model for other governments and agencies in their quest for IPv6 adoption.
Internet and Local Governance - Benin (ILG - Benin)
Project organizer: Destiny Tchehouali, Global Member
Benin has only 200,000 Internet users, with a 2.1% penetration rate of its population. At the local level, ICT implementation strategies face the obstacles of access to infrastructure networks and the diminished capacity of local authorities to develop efficient Internet and ICT policies. However some local eGovernance experiences implemented in Senegal, Ghana and Mali have shown that Internet use, especially when associated with mobile phone applications, can help improve the living conditions of citizens (farmers, fishers or artisans). All over the world, citizens are asking their governments to be more open in their relation with the civil society. Citizens expect secured services to respond to their needs and to receive better "customer service" from their administrations. Thus, Internet has a role to play by improving the quality and efficiency of public services provided to citizens, while encouraging their participation in decision-making process in the field of education, health, urban governance, etc. The project aims to assist local governments in the development and implementation of digital solidarity policies that promote initiatives enabling equal access to Internet for all citizens. To achieve its goals, the project will create an online platform of sensitization and capacity building for Internet use, targeting technical staff, local elected representatives and policy makers in Benin's municipalities.
Development of eLearning System in Georgia
Project organizer: Nino Tsulaia, Global Member
Today, effective usage of Information Technologies in education is one of the priorities of the Government of Georgia, which is implemented with the wide dissemination of personal computers in Georgian schools and their connection to the Internet. But the main issue is that most teachers and students experience lack of computer education. The wide dissemination of IT technologies and development of the Internet infrastructure has raised demand on broadband connectivity world-wide and particularly in Georgia. The growth of the Internet has created a need for more addresses than are possible with IPv4. The main issue is that network professionals and Internet users experience lack of knowledge and practical skills to configure and use IPv6. Subsequently, there is increasing demand on distance training in the IT field. People attending these courses will have the opportunity to access studying materials, video/audio instruments and other collaboration tools at anytime and anywhere. The project will develop an eLearning system based on Moodle, create the special training course of the open source operating system Linux, and translate the existing “6deploy” training course to the Georgian language for use in the distance learning system.
Rehabilitating Sex Workers Through Internet Access & Computer Training
Project organizer: Njenga Wanganga, Global Member
This project will provide sex workers in the Kitengela area of Kenya an opportunity to access the Internet and acquire computer skills through training. The project is one of the Community Empowerment & Welfare for the Vulnerable‘s (CEWEVA) efforts to empower vulnerable groups in the community through information access/sharing and skills training. The organisation aims at making sex workers/prostitutes in Kitengela informed, skillful, productive and self reliant. They will be given computer/Internet skills training including Internet marketing, business process outsourcing and search engine optimization. This will ultimately redirect prostitutes from a wasted life and rehabilitate/refocus and re-integrate them to a meaningful life. Due to high levels of poverty and unemployment in this location, many youths have resorted to prostitution to earn means of survival. Government efforts to criminalize and eliminate this practice, has so far not been effective. The CEWEVA started working in this area 2 years ago and have 300 sex workers under their rehabilitation and welfare scheme. Activities of this scheme are all directed at nurturing the potentials of these sex workers by breaking down the walls created by a lack of information and availing to them opportunities of alternative living.
Establishing Content Creation Centre in the Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia
Project organizer: Tigran Zargaryan, Global Member
Although in recent years the ICT environment has been greatly improved in Armenia, the educational system is not ready to implement distance learning. The main reason is the absence of any cContent. Until the problem of eContent is solved, implementation of distance learning in Armenia will continue to lag behind and the digital divide will increase. Through this new initiative the Fundamental Scientific Library (FSL) staff will share the responsibility with the Ministry of Education and Universities’ decision-making bodies to work actively toward solving the problem of ‘networked eContent’. The National Academy of Sciences with its 30 research institutions is a leading producer of high quality, peer-reviewed scientific publications in Armenia. Today NAS is publishing 13 peer-reviewed academic journals, and more than 30 series. All these publications will be digitized and mounted on the Open Access domain for free use.