Gram Marg is the brand name for the Rural Broadband project at the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay (www.grammarg.in). Gram Marg's vision is to enable Rural India digitally. Gram Marg literally means the 'village road map - A road map to rural connectivity' (www.grammarg.in). The project began its inception in the year 2012 with the quantitative assessment of TV White Space in India. In the year 2013, India's first TV White Space pilot test bed was set up by the Gram Marg team. As a part of the pilot test-bed, seven villages were provided with Internet connectivity over an area of 30 sq km in Palghar district of Maharashtra, India. Department of Telecom (DoT), Government of India granted experimental license to IIT Bombay to conduct tests in TV UHF band and it is the first time that such experiments have been conducted in India on this scale.
Later
in the year 2016, with a
funding from Tata Trusts, the rural broadband project has been
scaled to 25
villages covering an area of approximately 300 sq km located in
Palghar
district of Maharashtra. Unlike the pilot test-bed, the
technology approach to
connect these villages are TV White Space and 5.8 GHz in the
unlicensed band. Tata
Teleservices (TTL) provides bandwidth for the project. The
project aims to establish one of its kind of
network topology that will bring about broadband innovation
through the use of
frugal 5G by utilizing a cost effective, optimal mix of
technologies. In addition to this, Gram Marg is also working on
technology development of TV White Space devices alongside
testing their feasibility of
implementation and deployment on ground. The device has been
designed,
fabricated and developed here in IIT Bombay. Currently, these
devices are in
the prototype stage undergoing rigorous testing and
experimentation on field.
In addition to technology development and deployment of devices on field, Gram Marg is also working on community led networks to answer the basic question of how can networks become sustainable at the village level. Social impact assessment is also an important objective of Gram Marg. Gram Marg has laid the foundation of Private-Public-Panchayat Partnership (4 P) model and is validating the same on ground for its sustainability by setting up Village Level Entrepreneurs (VLEs).
With
regards,
Sarbani
Kyle from ISOC said they'd be officially announcing the SIG creation today (wednesday). I added the Organizations list at: http://cnsig.info/organizations/ Please check for errors. It would be great if each organization could send a small paragraph and their logo to put in that page. And by the way... if you are not aware of who are everyone else participating in the group, go check their websites! :) I also set up auto-updating (via the site's RSS) Twitter account (@ISOC_CNSIG) and Facebook page (facebook.com/cnsig) Cheers! NicoEchániz On 01/09/2018 02:49 AM, Jaspreet Singh wrote:Dear Nico No problem with displaying our organisation name Please go ahead. Jaspreet On Tue, 9 Jan 2018 at 3:59 AM, Vasilis Chryssos <vchryssos@sarantaporo.gr <mailto:vchryssos@sarantaporo.gr>> wrote: No problem from the Sarantaporo.gr side and our members! 2018-01-08 22:11 GMT+02:00 Nicolás Echániz <nicoechaniz@altermundi.net <mailto:nicoechaniz@altermundi.net>>: Hi all, Just wanted to let you know that I started creating a very minimal website (statically generated) so we can have a landing page when the SIG is announced by ISOC (very soon). It's currently hosted in Github Pages, but we can move it (or completely replace with another option) at any time: http://cnsig.info I would like to add (and keep updated) a list of the Council Members and Trusted Advisors. Does anyone have a problem with having their organization and name listed there? I believe the biggest asset of this group is the group itself! So listing everyone publicly will help when inviting new communities and organizations to join. Cheers, NicoEchániz _______________________________________________ CNSIG mailing list CNSIG@listas.altermundi.net <mailto:CNSIG@listas.altermundi.net> https://listas.altermundi.net/mailman/listinfo/cnsig -- *Vassilis Chryssos* Board Member / Administrator *Sarantaporo.gr Non Profit Organization* 28 Karaiskaki str., 10554 Psirri, Athens, Greece Tel: +30 211 8002730 <tel:%2B30%20211%208002730>, Mob: +30 694 794 8786 Email: vchryssos@sarantaporo.gr <mailto:vchryssos@sarantaporo.gr>, Web: www.sarantaporo.gr <http://www.sarantaporo.gr> _______________________________________________ CNSIG mailing list CNSIG@listas.altermundi.net <mailto:CNSIG@listas.altermundi.net> https://listas.altermundi.net/mailman/listinfo/cnsig -- With Regards Jaspreet Singh Sr. Project Engineer IIT Bombay +91 98963 89883 _______________________________________________ CNSIG mailing list CNSIG@listas.altermundi.net https://listas.altermundi.net/mailman/listinfo/cnsig
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