[gaia] Proposed Presentation of a whitepaper on the N50 project for digital inclusion for IETF114

Rajeev RK <rajeev.rk@piconets.com> Wed, 06 July 2022 11:03 UTC

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Subject: [gaia] Proposed Presentation of a whitepaper on the N50 project for digital inclusion for IETF114
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Hi All,

First, let me introduce myself, for those who may not have seen my
interactions at the GAIA WG at IETF113. I'm R. K. Rajeev- CTO at picoNETS -
A high performance Deep Edge  CDN startup ( piconets.com), with a focus on
Networking, CDN technologies and content/transport optimization.

Near the end of the IETF113 session(https://youtu.be/2FRUlormZEA?t=6631), I
had brought up an initiative that we are active contributors to, called the
N50 Project. The N50 Project aims to accelerate digital adoption and
community enrichment through innovative applications, network design, and
business models to enable the next 3.9 billion people to participate in the
digital world. Since then, we have been working on the project quite
actively, and have already started deploying infrastructure into our first
pilot site in Zambia. We have also published a Whitepaper on our project
plan and the objectives we are hoping to achieve, you can read the
whitepaper @
https://www.n50project.org/_files/ugd/e70605_5237f503639245e4baab1b01d2d5243c.pdf

As mentioned during the IETF113 meeting, we are eager to present a report
on the project to the wider GAIA audience, share some of our learnings and
statistics gathered so far and solicit involvement from other interested
parties or individuals with an interest to contribute as we look to start
gathering real world data from our pilot site and other potential sites
worldwide. I do understand that it might be a bit late to submit something
for the WG agenda, but I hope you can still squeeze us in for a timeslot
during IETF114. I am trying to see if there is anyone available from Intel
or Geeks Without Frontiers who could act as the lead presenter, schedules
permitting, and I would be the co-presenter. I believe that we have enough
material to do justice to a 30 minute timeslot, but can do a shorter
version if there are time constraints.

Looking forward to hearing back from you all, and hope we can get this
presentation onto the 114 agenda.

Regards
R. K. Rajeev

P.s. @JaneCoffin / @LeandroNavarro -- As a potential first time IETF
presenter, I would also welcome any guidance or suggestions on how to
prepare and ensure that we meet all the requirements needed to be accepted
into the agenda and to have a successful WG presentation.

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