From: Sharada Srinivasan <sharusownch@gmail.com<mailto:sharusownch@gmail.com>> Date: October 10, 2016 at 4:53:59 PM PDT To: TIER@tier.cs.berkeley.edu<mailto:TIER@tier.cs.berkeley.edu> Subject: [TIER] 1 World Connected - Case Studies of Internet Connectivity Projects (Apologies for cross posting.) Hello, I am a research fellow at the Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition at the University of Pennsylvania. I work on a project named 1 World Connected, which seeks to catalog all innovative efforts to expand the Internet’s reach and improve adoption. We hope to do so by compiling and disseminating case studies about these initiatives, as well as empirically assessing their impact using available data. The hope is to give key decision makers a firmer, data-based foundation for determining the best approaches for achieving the goal of universal connectivity. We launched our website a couple of days ago with a few initial case studies; they can be accessed at 1worldconnected.org<http://1worldconnected.org/>. Over the last few months, we have undertaken a broad literature survey to compile a list of initiatives and projects around the world that are currently aiming to improve connectivity across the world. I am sharing the preliminary results of my survey here. The list spans different supply- and demand-side initiatives across a range of technologies and stakeholder groups (community networks, TVWS trials, digital literacy programs, accessibility initiatives etc.) I have identified key information about each initiative and categorized them on an excel sheet, available here: https://goo.gl/rZLsWN One of our main goals is to expand the list of potential case study candidates in order to be as broad and inclusive as we can. Given the number of people here that are involved in research or deployment of innovative connectivity initiatives, it would be immensely valuable to us if you could point us in the direction of initiatives that you may be familiar with that could become potential case study candidates for our work. I look forward to your input. Thanks and regards, Sharada Srinivasan, Research Fellow, Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition, University of Pennsylvania 1worldconnected.org<http://1worldconnected.org/> | @1_WorldConnect (Twitter) | 1Worldconnected (Facebook) _______________________________________________ TIER mailing list Website: http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu TIER@tier.cs.berkeley.edu<mailto:TIER@tier.cs.berkeley.edu> https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tier