| Educational platforms - 15/06/2020 |
| COOLAB |
| Technical Community and Civil Society | The Americas | Brazil |
| Not long ago many schools banned smartphone use in classrooms, and suddenly the pandemic forced so many classes to be done online, several students with limited connectivity had their studies jeopardized. We also tried to address this issue in the #liberaowifi action, described above. But there also issues with the educational platforms themselves: many of them are not adapted to low bandwidth, lo (...) |
|
Source Link
Perma Link Keywords: Educational, community network, research |
| Libera o wifi - 15/05/2020 |
| COOLAB |
| Technical Community and Civil Society | The Americas | Brazil |
| During the pandemic, we realized that connectivy needs would go beyond our regular work in community networks. In fact, being forced to stay at home would make more people depend on Internet conectivity to have access to safety, mental health, and basic necessities. The problem is that many people depend on mobile phone internet for messaging, ordering and even paying bill, and in Brazil most of t (...) |
|
Source Link
Perma Link Keywords: wifi, share, community network, inclusion, minorities |
| Promotion of Community networks - 01/05/2020 |
| Coolab |
| Technical Community and Civil Society | The Americas | Brazil |
| CooLab was founded originally to develop installations, technology and awareness of community-based, self managed networks. We believe that this model creates opportunities for all those who are below the financial requirements of market connectivity options and those who want to take control of their data and the technology used to transport it. Community networks create a resilient and autonomou (...) |
|
Source Link
Perma Link Keywords: Community networks, inclusion, minorities, accessibility, digital divide |
| Product certification process is simplified during COVID-19 crisis - 27/04/2020 |
| National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | The Americas | Brazil |
| Anatel is simplifying the Telecommunications Products Certification process in order to provide telecommunications services with the means necessary for their maintenance in this period of fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19). |
|
Source Link
Perma Link Keywords: simplified processes; product certification |
| New law providing for the use of telemedicine during the COVID-19 crisis - 15/04/2020 |
| Government |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | The Americas | Brazil |
| A new law that allows the use of telemedicine on an emergency basis during the COVID19 crisis enters into force. |
|
Source Link
Perma Link Keywords: eHealth; telemedicine |
| Brazil State’s government announced new contact tracing SMS system - 13/04/2020 |
| Santa Carina State Government |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | The Americas | Brazil |
| Santa Carina’s State Government started to adopt an alert service via SMS text messages to inform the population about confirmed cases of COVID-19 at a distance of approximately 200 meters from the infected person's residence. The system is said to protect patients and SMS owners’ anonymity. |
|
Source Link
Perma Link Keywords: contact tracing |