Grant Program
Research
Grantee Name
Dave Johnson
Grant Start Date
1 July 2021
Grant End Date
30 September 2022
Amount Funded
US$98,470
Country
South Africa
Region
Africa
Research Question
- Can decentralized blockchain-based economic systems combined with mesh and localized cloud services incentivize vulnerable communities to create and grow their own networking infrastructure, services, and content and hence become more resilient?
Media and Publications
- Incentivized network and localized services growth with blockchain-based community inclusion tokens Project website hosting all the blogs that are documenting milestones and progress
- Rewards, Incentives, Tokenisation: Community Networks Meet Community Currencies This work explores the potential of community inclusion currencies to provide monetary rewards to users who help expand community networks, by installing routers or maintaining infrastructure or by providing offline content.
- Community networks: towards sustainable funding models Official Outcome of the IGF Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity
- Kenya Network Installation Building the Kilifi wireless network, setting up the iNethi platform in Kilifi, and discussing integration of Community Inclusion Currencies with the iNethi