Hi All I have menitioned before the work by IEEE Smart Villages. I am going to past the last minutes meeting notes and you can see the global project reports. If interested please contact me directly Monday March 11 2019 1. Attendees: Michael Deering, Dan Estes, Kanjo Etienne, Wayne Gutschow, Dave Kankam, Farid Khan, Diana Martinez Trejo, Alan Mickelson, Seth Myers, Martin Niboh, Gerro Prinsloo, Jose Rayas Sanchez (Mexico), Tunde Salihu, Bob Slebodnik, Xiaofeng Zhang, , Mike Wilson, Ray Larsen (Chair) Introductions; Bob Selbodnik joined for the first time; he is a recently retired power engineer with humanitarian project experience looking for a way to help out. Welcome Bob! Following Notes by Dan Estes with bits added by Ray: 1. Mike Wilson, ISV IEEE Staff 1. On way to Washington DC to meet with World Bank. Large infrastructure projects and educational tools to be discussed 2. Budget for2019 being reviewed and balanced. Funding sources being discussed 3. Power Africa in 2019 Nigeria in August; Tunde is heavily involved. 4. Tutorial for Microgrids - DESA Ga Tech – offered for use. II. Michael Deering- Development a. Meeting with major funder CSR manager b. Grid Alternatives discussion on American Tribes opportunities . There are several possible On The Ground (OTG) partners being evaluated. c. Proposal being made to Zayed Mott? (MD please clarify.) III. Alan Mickelson- Operations a. Format for an annual report underway b. Farid working to get more info for SSC IV. Ray Larsen - Technology a. Working on finding multiple suppliers for SunBlazer IV /PBK production in various parts of the world by end of year; RFP close to release b. Wayne Gutschow under Nextek to manage program. c. Management SOW in process of legal review. d. Building short run of 24 batteries/chargers e. PBK continues assembly redesign to make it cheaper and simpler f. Final PBK PC Boards are in final testing – test board in another week (Alain Riaud, France) V. Farid Khan India a. WHEELS – Farid (Water, Health, Energy, Education, Livelihood, Sustainability) Conference April 5-6th in Gujurat 1. Agenda, speakers published including Ray on Plenary Panel, Farid as Session Chair. 2. Farid issued invites to Preethi Jain, Ranjan Sen, others from HAC, SIGHT 3. Planned pre and post meetings with projects, IEEE people, WHEELS, proposed project site visit 4. Partnership discussion goal is to focus on 1-2 pilots with co-investment to work out details of collaboration model. 5. Conference media package funded by Dan Estes in process with banner, video VI. Kanjo Etienne – Cameroon 1. TBF in Cameroon experienced a severe loss of property recently when a village in a new location was attacked by government troops who torched all the houses and fled into the forest with some loss of life. The update report is as follows re: a new location. 2. TBF has done several trips to the conflict free, French speaking zone of Cameroon. Meetings have been held with the Chiefs, Officials of the Ministry of Mines and Power and the Mayor. 3. A memorandum of Understanding has been drafted between TBF and the Municipal Council in charge of the villages concerned. 4. TBF has also built a new MPPA which is more multi-functional and robust than the first. TBF plans to build and deploy 100 MPPA systems to over 30 villages. Materials for a 6kw power station will be transported to the village from the 17th of March, 2019. VII. Tunde Silahu, Nigeria a. Education project Computers are powered b. Multiple new initiatives are being pursued with renewed government funding interest. c. More details to follow. VII. Xiaofeng Xiang re: China Smart Village-like initiatives (Exploratory) a. Recruitment underway for educational support b. Leveraging existing educational information c. Meeting in San Francisco coming up with potential donors. Xiaofeng to send info to Ray. VIII. Meeting adjourned 08:00 PST ; Next Meeting March 25th same time. Respectfully submitted, Dan Estes Ray Larsen Glenn McKnight NARALO Secretariat mcknight.glenn(a)gmail.com http://toronto.ieee.ca/ IEEE Toronto SIGHT Chair glenn.mcknight(a)ieee.org skype gmcknight twitter gmcknight 289-830 6259 . On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 10:44 AM Michael J. Oghia <mike.oghia(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Sivasubramanian, I agree that the energy topic is a very critical one as Mike was mentioning, and it is important for researchers to be working on it. I know that Engineering for change has a course on renewable that is good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0nMC_laVvI (and more info like this in our monthly newsletter here http://gg.gg/locnet-newsletter) If there are innovations in energy generation and provision that would be great to get out, test and share (and I want to help on that, so please share !). Sustainability is a multidimentional problem where enery is one of those dimentions, among governance, finantial, usage, expansion. Also, my cautious self would say that we need to facilitate technologies so Communities can have as many options as possible, that we need to listen their needs and work for them in order to find solutions that are suitable to their needs, and try the most we can not to have a technocratic view at the matter. I feel that in order to co-design we need spaces were the communities and the technicians sit down together to hear each other. regards, -- Nico Pace APC/AlterMundi On 3/26/19 1:00 PM, sivasubramanian muthusamy wrote: