WHO: Grey-box is social innovation startup that is working on providing free wifi access to educational content in areas where internet and electricity access is problematic.

WHY: 50% of the world lives offline – they have not connected to the internet in the last 3 months. In Africa, the average cost for 1GB of data is 7% of the average monthly salary. Even in North America, 50% of rural Canada does not have access to the minimum speed for the internet. We believe that this is a solvable problem.

HOW: In a nutshell, the current project (codenamed: CyberCoffee) aims at providing low-cost Android devices like UNI (https://www.grey-box.ca/uni/) with the ability to share their internet connection (usually through a 4G modem) with a group of users and manage everyone's access with more precision. The goal is to ensure that no individual user can slow down the access of the whole group by using too much bandwidth or monopolizing the available data.

• This project will involve a literature review of existing solutions, technological recommendations, and an early prototype.
• The app should allow to manage internet usage on Android devices (with root access) and be able to set data and bandwidth limits for users connected to its hotspot.
• The app should also allow admins to reserve data and bandwidth to ensure updates or core activities for specific timeslots.