Kibera Mesh Network

Filed on 17 / 12 / 2014
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Empfangen
£ 1,698
Minimum
£ 7,943
Optimum
£ 11,714
40 Kofinanzierer
Kanal
  • Unterstützend £ 9

    Online thanks!

    You will get official recognition on the Tunapanda website as well as the gratitude of those benifiting directly from the project

    > 19 Kofinanzierer
  • Unterstützend £ 43

    Personalized E-Card + Online Thanks!

    Using the skills they develop in part through your contribution, Tunapanda trainees will use open-source software to design and create a personalized thank-you card. + Online thanks! You will get official recognition on the Tunapanda website as well as the gratitude of those benifiting directly from the project

    > 06 Kofinanzierer
  • Unterstützend £ 86

    HD Copy of 'History and Future of Libraries' course + Online Thanks!

    Tunapanda will design and create a course on the history and future of libraries to upload to the mesh network in Kibera and to share online. Be one of the first to see the results in HD! + Online Thanks! You will get official recognition on the Tunapanda website as well as the gratitude of those benifiting directly from the project

    > 07 Kofinanzierer
  • Unterstützend £ 172

    Personal Video + Personalized E-Card

    Tunapanda trainees will learn videography and video editing using open-source software and will create a short (<1 minute) video thanking you for your support + Using the skills they develop in part through your contribution, Tunapanda trainees will use open-source software to design and create a personalized thank-you card for you

    > 01 Kofinanzierer
  • Unterstützend £ 858

    Video Lesson on Your Choice of Topic + Personalized E-Card

    Tunapanda trainees will, write, film and produce a video lesson on the topic of your choosing to put on the mesh network and to share with the world at large. Topics must be related to Science, Technology, Education or Mathematics + Using the skills they develop in part through your contribution, Tunapanda trainees will use open-source software to design and create a personalized thank-you card for you

    > 00 Kofinanzierer

Über dieses Projekt

The goal of this project is to create a platform for people to access, create, and share open educational content through an offline mesh network in the slum of Kibera, Kenya.

Bedarf Infrastruktur Minimum Optimum
Building the Mesh Network
All of the core equipment necessary to build the mesh networking, including the servers, routers and power supplies.
£ 2,848
Bedarf Aufgabe Minimum Optimum
Training and Hiring Local Youth
Hiring several of our current trainees to help with infrastructure, content creation and the spreading of awareness. Bringing in 15 new full-time trainees to increase the awareness of FOSS and digital-era skills.
£ 3,096
'History and Future of Libraries' Course Creation
One of the first locally-created courses to be available on the mesh network will be a DVD-length course on the History and Future of Libraries including instructions about how to expand the network and create content to share.
£ 1,370
Additional Content creators/trainers
If possible, we will hire 3 additional local trainers to assist in creating content for the mesh network and teaching others how to create content while simultaneously training them in digital-era skills.
£ 3,771
Bedarf Material Minimum Optimum
Tools and Materials
Tools and materials required for the installation and maintenance of the mesh network infrastructure.
£ 629
Gesamt £ 7,943 £ 11,714
Erforderlich
zusätzlich

Allgemeine Informationen

The Kibera Common Library will build upon Tunpanda Institute's work in using open content to spread digital era vocational skills in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. We will be creating an open mesh network to enable Kenyans in Kibera to access information and knowledge via their phones AND to start creating their own digital content that will be shared with others.

Building a community network in Kibera is important so that educational resources will be freely available to the wider community. The cost of internet makes “free” online content inaccessible to the majority of those living in peri-urban areas. Tunapanda Institutes believes that education should be available to all. This is why we are making a way for online resources to be available without the prohibitive cost. We will also create culturally-relevant content in local languages for a wider reach. The network will empower a vibrant and vital community to advance itself through networks and education.

Hauptmerkmale

Tunapanda Institute (TI) in Kenya and Common Libraries (UK) are working together to create the first Common Library using a mesh network in Kibera, Nairobi. By hosting educational content on a server at the TI training center and connecting it to open-access nodes throughout the slum, residents will be able to download the content through their devices free of charge. Instructions will be available for download so that indiviudals or organizations can host their own content with the ultimate goal of creating a community-based digital library.

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Warum das wichtig ist

For many people in Kibera, educational material is difficult to access. Other than a handful of small community libraries, there are few resources available for residents to teach themselves new skills, especially in digital-era subjects. Even "free" video content from the internet is prohibitively expensive since the majority of residents connect to the internet through cellular data plans and pay for bandwidth. Creating open-access points for the free download of content will increase the number of people learning new skills and will create a platform for the sharing of ideas at a fraction of the cost of traditional libraries.

Creating an open mesh network with video learning content and other curricula will allow people in Kibera to not only access educational content curated by Tunapanda Institute, but to create their own locally-relevant content in local languages and actively teach other people who connect to the network.

Ziele der Crowdfunding Kampagne

Your donations will provide:

1) Equipment for at least 4 open access points in Kibera, which will be connected to servers loaded with learning content (text, audio, video, graphics, tutorials, etc). Anyone can access content for free, upload their own learning content, or connect their own server.

2) Stipends and a hot lunch for at least 15 full-time trainees at Tunpanda Institute for 3-6 months. These trainees from marginalized backgrounds will rapidly develop marketable skills and learn by doing through creating locally-relevant content for the mesh network and the world at large.

3) Learning technology, computers, and maker tools for spaces in Kibera.

4) An open-content “history and future of libraries” DVD-length mini-course created by current and future Tunapanda trainees in English and Swahili to help people appreciate the global history of libraries. The mini-course will also demonstrate how anyone can extend the Kibera mesh network or create a network in their own community.

If we exceed our goal, funds will be allocated to provide food/stipends/electricity, expand Tunapanda's curricular offerings, hire Tunapanda trainees as apprentice teachers/makers/designers, purchase learning equipment, and/or create more nodes in the Kibera mesh network (or similar networks).

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Team und Erfahrung

Tunapanda Institute (http://www.tunapanda.org/) has been using computers, free open source software (FOSS), and open content to spread digital era vocational skills in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda since early 2013. We recently opened a teacher-training and content-creation facility in the Nairobi slum of Kibera.

Common Libraries (http://commonlibraries.cc/) works with organisations to prototype peer production, consumption and distribution of knowledge, opening up access to and creation of knowledge.

Gesellschaftliches Engagement