What is it about?
This article shows how a small regional housing association is bridging the digital divide for its customers and their communities by bringing low cost internet connectiv-ity solutions proven in Africa to Dumfries & Galloway through collaboration with a university. The key learning is that small and medium sized third sector organizations should actively engage with universities to work jointly on developing and implementing solutions to address both sector and local needs. The joint working gives the third sector organizations access to the global academic networks and funding to bring overseas learning to help create innovative and proven local solutions that can help transform service delivery for customers and communities. Dumfries & Galloway's Loreburn Housing Association (Loreburn) is working with Strathclyde University to pilot a social tariff broadband service for its customers using TV White Space/Dynamic Spectrum technology proven by Mawingu Networks in Africa.
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Why is it important?
It shows how learning can be transferable to improve services
Perspectives
It was good to be able to write about a specific project that I was involved in and to disseminate the learning through publication
Dr Simon Peter Taylor
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This page is a summary of: From Africa to Dumfries and Galloway: Connectivity in a Rural Community, Journal of Corporate Citizenship, December 2017, GSE Research Limited,
DOI: 10.9774/tandf.4700.2017.de.00010.
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