Hello,
A few months ago, I reached out to the community for input
on 1 World Connected's effort to catalog initiatives seeking
to connect the unconnected. We received an outpouring of
support from all corners, and a number of new resources that
have significantly enhanced the catalog.
Version
2 now has over 600 case studies covering a wide range of
technologies and capacity building efforts.
This document is a curation of a number of widely
available online sources as well as submissions made via our
website's form and in-person meetings at various venues over
the course of the last year in India, Mexico, Britain and USA,
and I would like to acknowledge thank the very many people
that have contributed and shared their work and knowledge
through mails, reports and conversations, without whom this
resource will not have been possible. It is their work that
has been compiled and organized, and a list of all major
sources are mentioned in the first sheet of the catalog.
As ever, the document is open for feedback and will
continue to be upgraded as the project proceeds, so please do
reach out in case you are aware of additional case studies
that we can document. The spreadsheet is available on the
following link:
https://goo.gl/oahE3H
The next stage of our project envisages compiling case
studies of these projects through secondary research and
interviews, and I will update on our progress on the same
periodically. Newer case studies will also be uploaded to our
website (
1worldconnected.org),
and we are in the process of revamping the interface so that
the data can be presented and accessed more easily.
Thanks and regards,
Sharada Srinivasan,
Research Fellow
Center for Technology, Innovation
and Competition,
University of Pennsylvania