Mozambique’s Kamaleon wants to move Internet services to anywhere in rural areas – Meet the Community Tablet

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Mozambique’s Kamaleon wants to move Internet services to anywhere in rural areas – Meet the Community Tablet

8:20 CAT | 04 Nov 2016

Noticias

Mozambican technology company Kamaleon hopes to bring Internet services to remote rural areas through a platform called “community tablet ” (“tabletcomunitário”).

The initiative, 100 percent national and the brainchild of Dayn Amade and Alberto Pinoca, aims at promoting digital inclusion and ensuring that more people have access to information and communication technologies (ICT).

The prototype has five virtual keyboard screens on a trailer which can be put on a train or towed by motor vehicle and which will allow users to search on subjects like the prevention of breast cancer, cholera and tuberculosis in areas where there is no Internet signal and its inhabitants lack the resources to buy modern phones.

“We plan to promote awareness-raising initiatives on how to prevent diseases such as breast cancer in association with institutions that already have campaigns up and running,” said Dayn Amade.

Amade believes that the use of digital platforms in awareness campaigns is an innovative and creative way of getting educational messages across with a satisfactory level of coverage.

According to Amade, the community tablet also works as a mobile digital library, where students can read and download books that are often not available in their schools.

In order to facilitate interaction with the virtual world, the Kamaleon also offers training on how to use the Internet and its features.

“A few years ago anyone who could not read and write was considered illiterate, but today this concept goes further, encompassing people who do not know how to use information and communication technologies,” he says.

Another project component is the use of social networks as a way to help people who live in remote rural areas interact with family and friends far away.

Amade says community tablet will be tested in rural areas for the first time this month, and two public institutions initiatives have already decided to join the project.

The innovative project featured in the Maputo International Fair (FACIM) in August and the National Science Fair in October in Maputo province this year.

Source: Noticias