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1 Bridging Digital Divides

2 Challenge The unemployment rate for youth (age 15-25) in Kenya ranges from 35-60%, and is especially high in urban areas. UN Development Programme, Kenya's Youth Employment Challenge January, 2013 We are facing a problem of youth unemployment and a severe shortage of teachers - especially in fields related to technology; since teachers with tech skills are in high demand from the private sector.

3 What we do We focus on training skills in technology, design, and business skills - while helping our graduates (mostly from rural areas and informal settlements in East Africa) secure good jobs as we develop a new generation of teachers.

4 Courses Offered Programming Photography 3D Printing . Videography Design . Business Networking

5 Our Milestones Team Trainees Grown from a team of Currently training our 5 th 2 to 20 cohort of 25 trainees Employability Sustainability 90% of our graduates get We currently source for employment as way to jobs as a way to keep the fund themselves through institute self sustaining college.

Distributing Educational Content 6 • Online & Offline distribution - Desktops and mobile devices • Community wireless network

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Community Wireless Network 12 • Provide access to multimedia educational content to the community such as Wikipedia, khan academy, TedTalk videos and our learning.tunapanda website • This will help equip users with digital literacy skills and also promote creation of local content

Available Equipment 13

Network Nodes 14

Community Wireless Network 15 Two layer approach. Have a • Core layer • Access layer The core layer will have a NanostationM5, cubie truck, edge router PoE The Access layer will have : Picostation M5

Tunapanda Institute 16 NanoM5 Node A NanoM5 Edge router Cubie truck Node B PicoM2 NanoM5 PicoM2 Node C NanoM5 PicoM2 PicoM2 PicoM2 PicoM2

Concerns 17 The poles are the nodes will be 6m high, will have impact to the signal strength? Should the nodes be separated in different subnets or can they be combined together as one zone Input on the architecture?

18 Thank You Keep in touch with us Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. Benjamin Franklin Write Us Visit Us Join Us iosephine@tunapanda.org Nairobi Facebook & Twitter j.kimani@tunapanda.org Kenya Instagram & Skype www.tunapanda.org