Grants talk:Project/Rapid/GastelEtzwane/WikimedSenegal

Review on hold

Hello GastelEtzwane please note that we have sent you an email in regards to your previous grants and reports overdue. Please respond to that email so we can proceed with reviewing this grant request. Best regards, WJifar (WMF) (talk) 00:20, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

Hello, I answered by email and I am working on the reports as fast as possible. Hope to finish before the week is over... GastelEtzwane (talk) 21:59, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

Comments from WMF

Hello GastelEtzwane, I had a couple of additional questions for you before moving forward.

1. What plan do you have in place if the equipment on loan is damaged or lost?
2. You mentioned in your proposal that if the health centers are interested they can purchase the equipment on hand. If that's the case where will the money they have provided go?

Please let me know your responses and I can move forward with next steps. Best regards, WJifar (WMF) (talk) 10:58, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Hello WJifar (WMF),

Thank you for your questions, they point to very important issues.

1. Damaged or lost equipment.

Damage

I do not have a lot of experience lending Internet-in-a-Box devices, but this is what I learned: the software works absolutely fine, and usually after a few months the device on loan has to be updated. So I just replace the SD card with a more recent edition. I never had an SD card failure, and the old SD cards I got back do not have a problem either. The device itself is very robust, and will not be infected by a virus. USB keys and SD cards are more fragile in that they get infected in the long run, in spite of all the precautions taken. So we will have to renew them.

Loss

That is a risk I cannot quantify. I trust the people I work with in Senegal, and the whole point of this project is to set up a self-sustaining system. So the Senegalese partners will do their utmost to keep track of the Internet-in-a-Box devices, the USB keys and SD cards and they will replace what is lost. The price at which they sell the devices should be high enough that the Senegalese partners can buy a little bit more equipment to cover what is lost.

2. Sale of equipment

The revenue generated by the sale of equipment will be used to renew the starter stock of devices. Other health centers will then be contacted and in turn they will be able to try the devices.

Mamadou went to his home village in the North of Senegal and went to three health centers and loaned them with the equipment described in this project. The persons in charge of each health center signed an agreement and Mamadou will return in one month of so and retrieve the devices or collect the money. I am helping him write a report on his trip: Grants:Project/Rapid/GastelEtzwane/WikimedSenegal/Ouala. One of the health centers has already expressed interest in purchasing the devices by installments, the equivalent of 50 dollars is a lot of money in rural Senegal...

Best regards GastelEtzwane (talk) 16:21, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Not funded

Hello GastelEtzwane thank you for answering all my questions. Unfortunately, we will not be able to fund your grant request. In further review of your grant and discussion with the grants team we don't believe your grant request is very scalable. This year we will be working to develop our guidelines around offline activities so that it's better defined what we will and will not fund through rapid grants. We hope to work with you on other offline activity grant requests at that time. Best regards, WJifar (WMF) (talk) 23:06, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Hello WJifar (WMF),

Thank you for your answer and I would love to see a summary of your discussion about the project not being very scalable. You might be correct in your assessment of the situation, and I am trying hard to work out a solution for funding the production of Internet-in-a-box devices (as well as the flash media used).

I will continue working with my team in Senegal using the hardware I have provided, and we will insist that our local partners, meaning the "Poste de Santé", provide us a monthly report on how these devices are being used. For now, we have reached out to three remote health centers: Ouala report.

We will select up to 7 more health centers as we currently have 7 WikiMed "Internet-in-a-box" devices on hand in Senegal. The feedback we receive from our partners will allow us to fine-tune our grant request in such a way that the project becomes self-sustaining. Best regards GastelEtzwane (talk) 00:21, 5 January 2019 (UTC)