DP Studio landing pads / Project Liberty Alliance
Invitation to weigh in
Afchix
We opened a landing pad for Afchix from public work, not a mission paraphrase.
Afchix publishes citable work we could quote (Projects – AFCHIX – Africa Women in Technology). This briefing is a hypothesis built from those sources. Tell us if we misread the research, add papers we missed, and weigh in on Desirable Properties tied to that work.
If you represent Afchix, confirm the source URLs, then open the Desirable Properties tab and leave a patch idea where the property text misses what your public work already argues.
Research and policy only change the rule-set when it is linked to original sources. Help us keep this pad tied to your papers and reports, not a press-release summary.
Public packet only. Hypothesis marks stay until you confirm sources. Each Alliance member gets a different pitch so we can experiment. Your pad is https://desirableproperties.org/pad/afchix (hyphens optional). Direct link to this tab: https://desirableproperties.org/pad/afchix?tab=values
Stated mission
Supported by As one of the winners in the first and then third rounds of the WomenConnect Challenge , funded by the United States Agency for International Development , AFCHIX is using community networks to help women in rural communities in Africa overcome the barriers that keep them from benefitting from the internet.
Values to Overweb mappings
Confirm only mappings that match how you use these words. Rejected mappings stay off the next brief.
WomenConnect is a global call for solutions to improve women’s participation in everyday life by meaningfully changing the ways women access and use technology.
Overweb: Portable human agency (user-controlled identity and data)
Candidate MPA: Export identity and data the person created here, without a platform petition
As a winner in the first round of the Challenge, launched in 2018, AFCHIX worked with four rural communities in Kenya, Senegal, Namibia, and Morocco to install communications infrastructure and connect several schools and a limited number of households to the internet.
Overweb: Portable human agency (user-controlled identity and data)
Candidate MPA: Export identity and data the person created here, without a platform petition
We used a gender-sensitive approach and deliberately involved women as leaders in the design, installation, and maintenance of the networks.
Overweb: Portable human agency (user-controlled identity and data)
Candidate MPA: Export identity and data the person created here, without a platform petition