Any updates on this ?Internet access for refugees and migrants
The Internet is only truly open and free when everyone has access to it. In
the Netherlands, this is often insufficiently the case for refugees and
migrants. While there is an enormous need here. This project wants to do
something about this, starting with the technical development of WiFi
hotspots, so that these groups are no longer forced to use their mobile
data bundles for the internet. (Call 2 - 2015)
*The project has been completed (December 2016)* . The project realized
internet access at two locations in Amsterdam where asylum seekers and
refugees reside. In addition, the Refugee Hotspot was also developed, an
open source portable device that allows refugees and asylum seekers without
a permanent residence to access the internet. Read the blog ' Internet
everywhere and for everyone with the Refugee Hotspot'
<https://www.sidnfonds.nl/blogs/refugeehotspot> for more information.
The interest in the Refugfee Hotspot was immediately so great that as a
follow-up to this project, we are looking at how it can also be used
outside the Netherlands.
Would you like to contribute to the Refugee Hotspot? You can sponsor, buy
or build the hotspot yourself via
https://refugeehotspot.net.
<https://refugeehotspot.net/>
Image (edited): Free Wi-Fi Zone / Erin Pettigrew / CC BY
Tech for Good <https://www.sidnfonds.nl/projecten?theme=Tech%20for%20Good>
Pioneer <https://www.sidnfonds.nl/projecten?type=Pionier> 2015
<https://www.sidnfonds.nl/projecten?year=2015>
Organization:Internet Society NetherlandsProject Manager:Alexander Blom /
Niels ten OeverWebsite:https://www.isoc.nl/E-mail:
alexander.blom(a)budgetphone.nl
Glenn McKnight, MA
Virtual School of Internet Governance
Chief Information Officer
www.virtualsig.org
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