Economic Model

Sustainable Development Goal

United States of America

https://www.yeswecode.org/codingcorpsmarin

United States of America

#YesWeCode is a Dream Corps initative that accelerates access to training in high-demand technical and non-technical skills to prepare women and men that are underrepresented to enter the tech economy by enabaling access to local coding opporunities.

London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Subscription: Individuals; Scholarship partnerships with Institutions

23 Code Street gives access to online courses for coding specifically for women with a focus on soft skills and a potential for 2 week internships. For each paying student, a woman in a slum in India is taught digital skills.

hello@23codestreet.com

http://8villages.com/; http://lisa.co.id/

Jakarta, Indonesia

Unclear from publicly available information

8villages allows farmers to communicate via mobile platforms to engage their rural customers, allowing real-time communication.

Civil Society: Volunteer-led

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wireless_community_networks_by_region#Africa

Grants: in-kind support; Volunteer-funded

A community network that serves the Abaarso School of Science and Technology due to poor and at times nonexistent Internet connectivity. The project also involves some local cloud hosting. Current status unknown.

Dan Hastings/contact unknown

AboCoders provides ICT training to young Nigerian women, specifically through digital literacy training, coding/programming training, business development & financial literacy training, as well as a mentorship and internship scheme.

http://abocoders.org.ng/contact/

https://www.moi.gov.sa/wps/portal/Home/Home/!ut/p/z1/04_Sj9CPykssy0xPLMnMz0vMAfIjo8ziLQPdnT08TIy83Q0dzQwcPc2N_A08TQ3dPY30wwkpiAJKG-AAjgZA_VFgJc7ujh4m5j4GBhY-7qYGno4eoUGWgcbGBo7GUAV4zCjIjTDIdFRUBAApuVo7/dz/d5/L0lDUmlTUSEhL3dHa0FKRnNBLzROV3FpQSEhL2Fy/

Absher is the e-government portal operated by the Ministry of Interior in Saudi Arabia that provides a whole host of ICT-based services to Saudi Arabian citizens.

http://dynamicspectrumalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Pilots-and-Trials-Brochure_Jan-16.pdf

In March 2014, SpectraLink Wireless, under authorization from the Government of Ghana’s National
Communications Authority (NCA), and in collaboration with the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of
Technology (MEST) deployed a pilot network to offer free wireless broadband access for its community of
Entrepreneurs in Training. Current status unknown.

United States of America

http://adadevelopersacademy.org/

United States of America

Ada Developers Academy teaches women and gender diverse people with 6 months of full-time, tuition-free classroom training and then 5 months of paid industry training in order to encourage gender diversity among software engineers.

Adalab provides in-person training and courses for women to enter the field of coding and software development/

http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/un-other/unpan022041.pdf

ATCB works to help blind invididuals access technology in Africa through workshops and mentoring.

Latin America and the Caribbean

https://en.unesco.org/news/reducing-digital-gap-senior-citizens-colombia

The programme includes the teaching of basic computing skills, literacy, the use of social networks, and the appropriate use of mobile devices via interactive trainings and seminar-workshops.

Africa ICT Right (AIR) is a volunteer-run information and communications technology (ICT)-oriented nongovernmental organization (NGO) established in 2007. The organization seeks to use ICT tools to address critical national problems pertaining to education, gender, youth empowerment, and health in Ghana.

http://adsiteachers.gesci.org/#

Kenya and Tanzania

The African Digital Schools Initiative (ADSI) targets African secondary schools and equips them with ICT education to transform them into digital schools of distinction.

The AWP Network platform serves as a vehicle for expanding linkages between investors and women-led enterprises--help to facilitate strategic opportunities for women-led businesses, researchers, and investors through seminars, small business clinics, media exposure and entreuprenurial training programs.

theawpnetwork@gmail.com

Aga Khan Development Network eHealth Resource Centre

http://akdnehrc.org/ehealth_programme/

The Aga Khan eHealth programme seeks to provide high-quality, low cost, equitable health care to communities with reduced access to health care services by delivering cost-effective health care through live (synchronous) and store-and-forward (asynchronous) teleconsultations.

Latin America and the Caribbean

AGESIC leads the implementation strategy of Electronic Government as the basis of an efficient and citizen-centered Government of Uruguay by promoting the inclusion, adoption, and implementation of information and communication technologies (ICTs).

contacto@agesic.gub.uy

http://agribusinesstv.info/en/

Agribusiness TV uses web-based videos to make the sector more attractive to youth by showcasing success stories of young agricultural entrepreneurs and their innovations in Africa.

Trinidad and Tobago

Latin America and the Caribbean

http://programafrida.net/en/archivos/project/agrinett-e-agricultura-en-el-caribe

Trinidad and Tobago

AgriNeTT is an e-Agriculture project which infuses ICT into the agriculture sector of Trinidad & Tobago to build a knowledge intensive agriculture economy using ICT tools for the farming community and agricultural institutions to help to drive economic growth of the agriculture sector and increase its competitiveness.

DCIT.Agrinett@gmail.com

Latin America and the Caribbean

https://innovation.wfp.org/project/agriup

AgriUp is user-friendly, low-bandwidth smartphone app/website that provides farmers with location-specific information including weather alerts, agricultural advice and nutrition tips.

global.innovation@wfp.org

Civil Society: Volunteer-led

http://www.dw.com/en/pulse-agroduuka-app-connecting-farmers-to-customers/av-41088599

AgroDuuka is a mobile application that creates a market for local farmers, where there was none before, and eliminates the cost of working through intermediaries. To date, it has connected more than 800 smallholder farmers from 36 villages to buyers throughout Uganda.

Civil Society: Volunteer-led

Community fundraising

Air-Stream Wireless is the oldest Community Network in South Australia that provides net neutral connectivity to users.

josephb@air-stream.org.au

Subscription: Individuals and Institutions

AirJaldi is an Internet service provider (ISP) that designs, builds, and operates Internet networks in rural areas. Serving more than 230,000 subscribers across five states in India, they operate public hotspots with paid access as well as provide fixed wireless Internet to homes, businesses, medical centers, and schools.

Unclear from publicly available information

Akhaya Women is a local initiative, led by and for women that provides the tools and support mechanisms necessary for women in Myanmar to challenge gender stereotypes, to bring gender equality into their family homes and communities, and to campaign for a safer and more equal environment for women to live in through sexuality training, mentorship and leadership training.

akhaya.mm@gmail.com

AkiraChix develops ICT-skills/coding programs to reach young women at different levels, those at primary, secondary and university levels working in technology as well those who wish to pursue a career in technology through training, mentorship and outreach.

Unclear from publicly available information

aKoma is a digital media and storytelling flatform that focuses on engaging Africa with the world and its own people through the creation of original content, cultivating creators of content, a fellowship program and its own platform that showcases African content to the public.

Civil Society: Volunteer-led

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wireless_community_networks_by_region#Africa

Unclear from publicly available information

Akwapim Community Wireless Network is a lapsed open architecture mesh network with seven nodes. This network has coverage of 45 square kilometers, and offers Internet connectivity to schools and community centers across six villages in a mountainous region of Ghana.

http://www.give1projectgambia.org/

Give1 Project Gambia is a not-for-profit organization that organizes All Girls Tech camps across Gambia. The project trains young girls aged 13-20 in web design, computer graphics, coding, and database design.

give1projectgambia@gmail.com

https://www.gret.org/projet/mobisan/

AlloLaafia is a service to raise awareness about health and nutrition practices through the regular dissemination of personalised information to women and mothers and their husbands by means of SMS and voice messages.

http://www.adsphcda.org.ng/index.php/our-partners/icrc/icrc-almanach/

Almanach stans for Algorithms for the management of acute childhood illnesses and is an application designed to strengthen knowledge among healthcare staff and guide them, step by step, through history taking and physical examination, to the correct diagnosis and treatment prescription

Latin America and the Caribbean

Civil Society: Volunteer-led

https://www.altermundi.net/

The Association will aim to research, experiment and disseminate technologies and practices that facilitate the development of a sustainable society through community data centers, free networks and other forms of decentralized communication infrastructure

Amakomaya addresses the health care scenario of pregnant women in rural settings by introducing videos of the changes of the foetus inside the body through an android application.

Latin America and the Caribbean

http://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/index.php?q=filedepot_download/4116/324

Implementation of a community network in the Brazilian Amazon using high frequency radio band technology to build a community network that is sustainable, carbon neutral, built and maintained by the community, low cost, and no monthly, external costs to helpsproduce and sell goods to other parts of Brazil, utilize various services such as health and education, and help empower those rural communities to continue to thrive and push-back against efforts to take over the reserve, develop the area, or use the forest for logging.

United States of America

United States of America

Amplex Internet is a northwest Ohio-based Internet service provider. Using fixed-position wireless technology, to provide affordable, reliable broadband Internet access to households and businesses throughout Northwest Ohio where DSL and cable are not available or are unreliable.

Anatomie Nuerique Pour L'Enseignement Et La Recherche

https://www.anatomieunesco.org/en/

The goal of the program is to provide a computer-assisted dissection tool, used by students on a tablet or smartphone.

Andela works to build a network of technology leaders on the African continent and bridge the divide between the U.S and African tech sectors by using a data-driven approach, to build high-performing engineering teams with Africa’s top developers to help companies overcome the tech talent shortage and build better products.

United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates

Cyber C3 aims to inform children, young people, parents, teachers and library staff about cyber safety issues; educate audiences through information, resources and practical advice; and empower children and young people to be safe online through a certification program and a helpline.

https://info.internet.org/en/contact-us/

The Facebook Aquila is an experimental solar-powered drone developed by Facebook for use as an atmospheric satellite, intended to act as relay stations for providing internet access to remote areas.

http://www.a-r-e-d.com/#contact

ARED is a Platform as a Service company that has developed a solar kiosk, app and software platform that empowers mostly women and people with disabilities using a micro franchise business model.

https://lists.subsignal.org/mailman/listinfo/arig-developers

Arig creates a free community network that enables local communications in a way that is independent of any infrastructure or Internet provider, with high availability and without the need for special hardwar

arig-developers-owner@lists.subsignal.org

United States of America

United States of America

Aristotle is the global leader in providing technology to political campaigns and organizations, offering a seamless solution for campaign software, voter data, PAC and grassroots software and services.

United States of America

http://www.aroostooktechnologies.com

United States of America

Aroostook Technologies Inc. is a technology company that works with the public to make technology an asset for homes and businesses through internet connectivity, satellite phone services and other internet services.

support@aroostooktechnologies.com

http://broadwaypartners.co.uk/

Subscription: individuals, partial subsidy by the government

Broadway Partners is a United Kingdom-based wireless broadband provider that has operated since 2016. They use a mix of TV white space (TVWS) and 5-gigahertz (GHz) technologies to provide comprehensive connectivity. They target regions impossible to connect with fixed wireless broadband as well as communities underserved or priced out by existing broadband options.

info@broadwaypartners.co.uk

Latin America and the Caribbean

Civil Society: Volunteer-led

https://www.article19.org/resources.php/resource/38792/en/getting-connected:-new-policy-on-freedom-of-expression,-telcos-and-isps

Auto-Visual AFP Detection and Reporting (AVADAR)

https://www.ehealthafrica.org/avadar/

A mobile-based surveillance app for Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) in children to detect true cases of AFP using a wider network of messengers, for the purpose of identifying and responding to potential cases of polio

info@ehealthafrica.org.

Awaaz.De develops inclusive mobile solutions (with capabilities in IVR, SMS, mobile apps, and web) that enable organizations to achieve last-mile connectivity for social impact with over 680,000 users in 12 countries globally often with a focus on the use of this tech for education.

http://aweleacademy.com/

Awele Institute is a 12 week immersive software engineering program for African women to learn through a mix of lectures, hands-on workshops, projects, peer-programming, leadership, presentation, entrepreneurship, start-up ventures, pitching, and team building.

United States of America

http://www.connectwithaxiom.com/

United States of America

Axiom works to deliver strategic and customized rural broadband deployment solutions to remote communities in the US to expand accessibility using a combination of solutions including fiber, wireless, DSL, and TV white space.

United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates

Ayaadi Etisalat Electronic Library is a project in cooperation with the Ministry of Education, aimed at developing the intellectual capabilities of students via access to self-development books and online education resources.

B-Gifted Foundation is a non profit Organization that uses creativity and technology to address human rights (including women and children's rights), environmental rights, enhance peace and sustainable development in Sierra Leone, while seeking to alleviate poverty

Civil Society: Volunteer-led

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wireless_community_networks_by_region#Africa

Broadband Community Wireless Mesh Network was a government program targeting the digital divide in rural areas, but which eventually merged with a commercial organisation providing school connectivity and public hotspots.

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

B4RN works to create a community network to expand internect connectivity in rural areas of the UK.

Backstage addresses different structures in lectures and personal learning styles by analysing lecturers’ and students’ behaviour, interaction and learning outcomes and can help structuring the lecture and assist students on a more personal level, by offering suitable learning material and tasks.

https://www.wnballarat.com.au/

Ballarat, based in Austraila, provides a number of services relevant to connectivity including radio and microwave communication, site installation, SCADA system consulting, and system maintenence.

Latin America and the Caribbean

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7857265/?reload=true

Balsapuerto network of Loreto Peru is constructed of low-cost, high-speed technology, Wi-Fi Long Distance Networking in upper rural areas of the Amazon.

United States of America

Civil Society: Volunteer-led

United States of America

Bamboowifi is a community network that provides internet access to an entire neighborhood or area for free in exchange for watching short ads.

Base de Donnees des Ordres Professionnels de la Sante du Mali

http://base.cnom.sante.gov.ml/cnom/main.jsp;jsessionid=28A9725AF24D39588ABFA351D61988B3?Language=EN

Creates a database of authorized and certified medical professionals for citizens to use in order to improve healthcare outcomes.

Civil Society: Volunteer-led

https://www.wiman.me/indonesia/free-wifi-serpong

BWIC is an app that informs the user of nearby free-WiFi access points including hotspots, restaurants, retails centers and others, and instantly connects the phone to the best and closest network point.

Civil Society: Volunteer-led

http://www.bathurstwireless.websyte.com.au/

Bathurst Wireless is a community run, 'not for profit' group which aims to provide a fast, free Wireless Network to Bathurst and close surrounding areas using 802.11 based Wireless equipment.

United States of America

http://www.bdawireless.com

United States of America

BDA Wireless provides fast internet connectivity for payment (normal WiFi service).

Civil Society: Volunteer-led

http://www.bendigowireless.net/

The BID initiative works to use a number of interventions to better health outcomes related to imunizations through electronice immunization registry, training, barcodes on child healthcares and vaccines.

The primary aim is to ensure that healthcare professionals have access to the most affordable accurate, up-to-date learning programmes.

Through Beyond Access, IREX works with local partners to promote sustainable, inclusive access to information and technology for those who need it most by partnering with governments, NGOs, local organizations, and donors to help communities create their own sustainable information hubs through libraries.

http://dynamicspectrumalliance.org/pilots/

TVWS is used to connect underserved village populations to healthcare by providing point-to-multipoint broadband connectivity over long distances.

Knowledge Platform is a learning solutions company that provides holistic e-learning solutions for clients in the form of strategy, content, technology and support on a wide range of subjects in the educational, corporate and government sectors.

United States of America

http://www.bluespanwireless.com/

United States of America

Bluespan Wireless provides fast internet access to previously underserved areas of Tuscon, Arizona with services such as business/residential services, business phone coverage and other communication technology.

Bluetown works to break down barriers to connectivity ( in 4 key markets (Africa, India, Middle East, South America) to expand connectivity by providing access that is present, affordable, sufficient ICT skills and locally relevant content.

Bluetown works to break down barriers to connectivity ( in 4 key markets (Africa, India, Middle East, South America) to expand connectivity by providing access that is present, affordable, sufficient ICT skills and locally relevant content.

Civil Society: Volunteer-led

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wireless_community_networks_by_region#Africa

A now-defunct “testbed” experiment in a historic inner-city precinct involving 75 of the early Mesh Potatoes and an internet gateway, funded by the Shuttleworth Foundation -unfortunately technology was prioritised over human capacity-building; problems with the equipment combined with lack of community buy-in led to the project lapsing

Latin America and the Caribbean

Civil Society: Volunteer-led

Bogota-Mesh's main objective is to link free technology decreases the digital divide in Bogota, and help in the creation of an open, decentralized, communitarian, independent and autonomous network that can be used like a tool to share out communitarian, social, cultural, and scientific projects.

https://raft.unige.ch/bogou/

Bogou is a tele-expertise or remote diagnostic tool that allows health professionals to request a second opinion or decision-making support from other, more specialised health professionals who may be located some distance away.

BOSCO Uganda has been implementing a pilot ICT project in 6 IDP-camps in Gulu and Amuru district hrough the use of innovative and collaborative ICT technologies and entrepreneurial uses of micro-scale electricity.

info@boscouganda.com

Botswana-UPenn Partnership Telemedicine and Health Informatics Program

http://www.med.upenn.edu/botswana/

United States of America

This is a broad telemedicine program that seeks to circumnavigate the challenging IT infrastructure in the region and a severe shortage of healthcare workers, particularly specialists.

Latin America and the Caribbean

http://www.ebc.com.br/brasil-4d

pautaebcservicos@ebc.com.br

http://www.medicine.kln.ac.lk/

A mobile app that helps to manage the care of breast cancer patients through SMS and app features.

Bridging California's Rural/Urban Digital Divide with Mobile Broadband

United States of America

Civil Society: Volunteer-led

https://www.internetsociety.org/bridging-californias-ruralurban-digital-divide-mobile-broadband

United States of America

The overall goal of this project is to establish mobile broadband performance in agricultural areas in Yolo County and compare that performance to provider claimed performance and to precision agriculture technology demands, so that these data can inform public policy making on rural broadband

Civil Society: Volunteer-led

https://www.jcu.edu.au/information-and-communications-technology/help-and-support/wireless/getting-connected-to-wireless

James Cook University provides wireless connectivity to its Students, Staff and visiting academics from other supported institutions through eduroam with over 2500 wireless access points.

British Columbia Wireless Network Society (BC Wireless)

Civil Society: Volunteer-led

The BCWARN network allows its users to exchange information between the connected sites such as email, internet-chat, remote printing, VoIP telephone and fax calls, and virtually anything else that one would use the internet for, but without having to rely on commercial network infrastructure.

BroadLights aims to bring affordable connectivity to those countries by working closely with local governments at national, regional and municipal levels to find adequate financing sources and allowing their most economically vulnerable communities (refugees and indigenous people) to access affordable wireless internet.

Civil Society: Volunteer-led

http://whatsyourtech.ca/2013/07/22/her-leadership-on-high-speed-internet-project-puts-canadian-province-on-top/

BRNS has been cited as a stable and secure base from which the province’s connected communities continue to take full advantage, using the power of the Internet and its potential for boosting economic and social development bringign 100% broadband connectivity to Nova Scotia.

Latin America and the Caribbean

http://mtci.govmu.org/English/Pages/Contact-Us.aspx

United States of America

http://www.broadwave.com

United States of America

Broadwave is the Florida Keys local internet solutions provider, which utilizes the latest fixed wireless technology available, which owns their own independent network and is not reliable on any other carrier.

Civil Society: Volunteer-led

The association's purpose is to establish, own and operate a common network through which the individual members connect with internal and external networks, including the television, telephone and data networks by providing members with savings on TV / radio, telephony, Internet access, broadband services, etc. through the establishment, ownership and operation of the network. as well as ensuring quality and independence of suppliers.

United States of America

Civil Society: Volunteer-led

http://www.bwig.net/aboutus.htm

United States of America

Buffalo Wireless provides broadband Internet service at an affordable price with the goal of making the Internet accessible to as many as possible within Buffalo, Minnesota, USA

Civil Society: Volunteer-led

http://www.cairnscomputers.com/wireless

Cairns Wireless provides information about WiFi availability in the Cairns area.

http://camara.org/zam/about-us/

Camara Education is a non-profit international educational organisation dedicated to delivering real impact through technology by combining exceptional teacher training with affordable, high-quality refurbished ICT equipment – loaded with educational software and material – to help schools and other educational institutions set up sustainable e-learning centres.

http://www.businessweekly.co.uk/news/hi-tech/13960-cambridge-white-space-trial-success

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

The consortium explored and measured a range of applications — rural wireless broadband, urban pop-up coverage and the emerging “machine-to-machine” communication — and found TV white spaces can be successfully utilized to help satisfy the rapidly accelerating demand for wireless connectivity-tests showed that TV white spaces can help extend broadband access and offload mobile broadband data traffic.

whitespaces@microsoft.com

http://campcodeaway.com/

Camp Code Away offers a 12 week coding bootcamp in Bali-divided into six weeks of remote coursework and six weeks of onsite instruction where students learn HTML, CSS, Git, Sinatra and more.

Civil Society: Volunteer-led

Canberra Wireless Network provides wireless broadband access for both home, business and special event use in Canberra and the surrounding area.

Latin America and the Caribbean

http://www.desarrollosocial.gob.ar/

https://www.tenet.ac.za/tvws

With the support of ICASA, the communications regulator of South Africa, a group of partners implemented a TVWS trial network covering ten schools in the Western Cape over a six month period during 2013 with the goals of: Demonstrate that TVWS can be used to deliver affordable broadband and Internet services without interfering with TV reception + Increase awareness of the potential for TVWS technology in South Africa and across the continent.

Civil Society: Volunteer-led

Cape Town Wireless User Group promotes the use and understanding of 802.11 wireless equipment and to build a citywide free wireless network available to all-not for profit.

tenetadmin@tenet.ac.za

The program used telemedicine to improve the diagnosis and management of cardiovascular pathologies.

https://himore-medical.com/

The Cardiopad is a product developed by Himore Medical that transmits cardiac data via a mobile network to a national data center which is then downladed by a cardiologist who then sends a prescription and diagnosis.

contact@himore-medical.com

https://amref.fr/project/programme-e-sante-cellel-e-kisal/

The Cellal E Kisal project is based on an interconnected system with the users in a community, in terms of health facilities, health centres, regional hospitals, specialised care services and training centres

Centers for Digital Inclusion and Technology "Puntos Mexico Conectado"

Latin America and the Caribbean

The "Puntos Mexico Conectado" are a network of centers for digital inclusion and technology which main objective is to promote the use of new technologies for the development of digital skills, innovation and entrepreneurship.

buzon_ucg@sct.gob.mx