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Wednesday meeting linking rural Nigeria, UK and Geneva!

Submitted by nikki on 22 May 2010 - 7:56am
JAWS and Fantsuam Academy Originally uploaded by Dadamac Community Connectivity issues tried to ruin this week's online UK- Nigeria meeting but failed. I had problems with my laptop, which was being repaired, so was watching the meeting over Pam 's shoulder. And the UK were informed that Bala ( Zitnett Manager) was continuing to work on the connectivity problem at Fantsuam Foundation .

JAWS Training

Submitted by nikki on 22 May 2010 - 7:48am
JAWS and Fantsuam Academy Originally uploaded by Dadamac Community By Kelechi Michaels for Fantsuam Foundation KAFANCHAN, Nigeria, 13 May 2010 In 2009, APC member Fantsuam Foundation took on the training of 583 people in ICT, 221 of which were women, and one who was physically handicapped in their academy. While the training was successful and inclusive, one group who could greatly benefit from such training was absent: people who cannot see. However this will change in 2010 as Fantsuam introduces JAWS (Job Access With Speech screen reader application) training to its curriculum making its Basic computer skills and Advanced computer...

Why our Wednesday meetings work!

Submitted by nikki on 15 May 2010 - 12:25pm
The weekly Wednesday online meetings are important to the UK and Nigerian teams, providing a quick and easy way to exchange and update information. And this week's proved no exception. Despite many of the usual team members being absent due to other pressing commitments, the week's past and future business was successfully addressed. Although it is not unusual for eight people to attend these sessions (sometimes many more!) we can invariably expect a successful outcome - as long as those online include a representative from both the UK and Nigeria who are in possession of the relevant information. At this...

ZittNet – Fantsuam Foundation's Community Wireless Network

Submitted by nikki on 8 April 2010 - 12:38pm
The success of Zittnet, at our sister organisation Fantsuam Foundation, is a major reason that we are able to connect the UK with rural Nigeria so brilliantly at our weekly online meetings. To really get a better picture of Zittnet I urge you to look at this excellent article written by Louise Berthilson in 2007. The information is current, although there have been further lightning strikes. This has resulted in a larger mast. I will also ask Bala, the manager of Zittnet and his team, to comment about any other changes that may have occured.

Last Mile Connectivity - the realities

Submitted by nikki on 24 March 2010 - 10:51pm
Today's online meeting illustrated perfectly the type of difficulties which can potentially beset our weekly Skype link-ups between Nigeria and the UK. It first became apparent that all was not well after we were joined in the session by Bala, Manager of Zittnet and a regular team member. The Nigerian team quickly explained that they were experiencing problems with their network. In fact, they had identified the presence of unusual traffic from an external client and - fearing this could mean a viral or hacking attack - had chosen to block the "intruder" for safety. A low-key and unremarkable event...

Africa Rural Connect – Results

Submitted by dadamac on 16 August 2009 - 7:17pm
The results are out for the Africa Rural Connect competition and the winners are..... Zittnet! Many thanks to all who voted, and encouraged others to vote. We also understand and respect the views of those who have issues about these kind of competitions and will not vote in them. Some of these issues are discussed later. The details Back to the results. It was a close call. Last week “we” (ie our friends at Zittnet plus their supporters) were struggling for second place, and the leaders were way out ahead. Then, amazingly, we managed to start closing the gap. By...

Zittnet project needs votes.

Submitted by dadamac on 27 July 2009 - 1:39pm
You could help our friends at Zittenet to get $3,000 to kick start one of their projects simply by voting for their idea in Africa Rural Connect's search for good ideas. There are lots of interesting ideas competing with each other, at the ideas page of the ARC website . The Zittnet idea is in the communcation section. Obviously we think Zittnet's idea is best - so you could just trust our judgement, go to their page and click on the “endorse' button on the right hand side, or read the other ideas too so you can consider how Zittnet's...

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