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Net warden training
Fifty local wardens have been trained to install, maintain and troubleshoot the community network, from wireless links to power backup.
50 trained net wardens
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Communities of Practice
Learning by doing, together: the net wardens, smart village champions and grassroots engineers who keep community networks alive long after a project ends.
Empowerment through practice
Turning network users into network stewards
A network is only as strong as the people who can repair it. Communities of practice are how we move skills from a visiting engineer into the hands of the village.
Net wardens, smart village champions and grassroots engineers learn together, solve problems together and pass their knowledge on to the next community.
Our strategy
We train local people to build, maintain, teach and advocate — then keep them connected through peer learning, refresher training and shared documentation.
What this looks like
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Smart village champions
Residents who mobilise their villages, run digital skills sessions and connect people to government services, learning and enterprise.
Digital inclusion from within
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Grassroots engineering
Practical, repairable skills: cabling, antennas, routers, solar and power management — designed around the equipment a village can actually maintain.
Skills that fit local conditions
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Peer learning
Exchange visits, joint troubleshooting and shared documentation let wardens learn from each other rather than waiting for outside help.
Knowledge stays in the network
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Digital safety leadership
Champions carry internet governance, privacy and cybersecurity lessons into schools, churches, markets and community groups.
60+ internet safety champions
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Local employment
Network maintenance becomes paid, skilled work for young people who want to build a future without leaving the village.
Jobs created in Ugunja
A network the village can fix
Sustainability is not a promise at the end of a project. It is a training plan, a spare-parts budget and a group of local people who know what to do when the signal drops.
The other pillars
Read our researchDigital Transformation
We apply information and communication technologies to the problems communities name themselves — digital skills, affordable connectivity, online safety and locally led innovation.
Multistakeholder Dialogue
Participatory baselines, public participation and structured conversation bring residents, government, civil society and the private sector into one room — and one plan.
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