Preferred learners
- Anywhere
- Academic experience
Categories
Skills
Project scope
- What is the main goal for this project?
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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 haven’t 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, we are wrapping up our pilot project in Canada, Madagascar, Congo, Cameroun, Mexico and South Soudain. The mandate is to ensure a solid IT infrastructure that allows this project to scale and add additional features related to cybersecurity, speed improvement and better connectivity.
- What tasks will learners need to complete to achieve the project goal?
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Due to multifaceted nature of this internship, Students would be capable to work on array of projects as needed. This may include any of the following;
- Maintaining a captive portal to redirect users to the home page
- Develop a list of devices compatible with the application (CPU, wifi driver)
- Add security layers to databases and file managers
- Set up tools to monitor offline usage (analytics of pages visited, number of concurrent users) and performance (power consumption)
- Maintaining code and documenting incremental progress
- What is the main goal for this project?
-
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 haven’t 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, we are wrapping up our pilot project in Canada, Madagascar, Congo, Cameroun, Mexico and South Soudain. The mandate is to ensure a solid IT infrastructure that allows this project to scale and add additional features related to cybersecurity, speed improvement and better connectivity.
- What tasks will learners need to complete to achieve the project goal?
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Due to multifaceted nature of this internship, Students would be capable to work on array of projects as needed. This may include any of the following;
- Maintaining a captive portal to redirect users to the home page
- Develop a list of devices compatible with the application (CPU, wifi driver)
- Add security layers to databases and file managers
- Set up tools to monitor offline usage (analytics of pages visited, number of concurrent users) and performance (power consumption)
- Maintaining code and documenting incremental progress
- How will you support learners in completing the project?
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Weekly touch bases can be provided with the CEO and marketing or IT teams
Coaching and training resources can be provided based on the need.
Grey-box is a nonprofit structured under the principle of mobile-first and remote-first. Diversity is not only encouraged, it is an integral part of the strength of the team and its projects.
About the company
- https://www.grey-box.ca/
- 2 - 10 employees
- Education, Non-profit, philanthropic & civil society, It & computing, Technology, Telecommunications
Grey-box is a social innovation startup. Its main product, Uni, provides wireless access to digital resources (such as Wikipedia, Khan academy, several MOOC-type online courses, medical databases) in areas where access to the internet or to electricity is unreliable.
While 50% of the world's population is not connected - and the COVID-19 situation is exacerbating these inequalities - our team is working on an accessible product (portable, energy efficient, climate resistant and, above all, less than 100 $ the unit) which allows anyone to connect to these essential resources for their development and autonomy.
Grey-box is a nonprofit structured under the principle of mobile-first and remote-first. Diversity is not only encouraged, it is an integral part of the strength of the team and its projects