Wireless Network Pilot Set-up at the Winneba Open Digital Village (WODiV)
A few weeks ago, the OVF-USA team sent one indoor and two outdoor Meraki Wireless Network units to the WODiV. Today, we have with great joy successfully mounted and tested the indoor unit. We fed the indoor Meraki with a dial-up internet access which cost us about US$1 per hour – very expensive. This means we cannot leave the access on 24h/7 as we wish. Thus we are working hard at securing a more reliable internet access for the WODiV and the Winneba Community Mesh Network.
We have some basic funds for the network set-up and we’ll be glad to receive your inputs in how we could strike an affordable VSAT internet for the WODiV and the Winneba community. Partners, collaborators and funders are welcome!
I am sending this mail over the Meraki Wireless equipment we set-up as a commitment to develop our region through real action oriented capacity building sessions at the WODiV.
Thanks to Gideon Amoah of Wireless Ghana, Godfred Prebbie (OVF-Ghana Project and Finance Manager); together we set up the equipment and wireless network. In the coming weeks, we hope to receive some more equipment for the the Winneba Community Network.
We are close to a Winneba, Ghana and an Africa without borders!
