Humanitarian Activities Supported By Our Fiji Subsection
Educational Learning Support to Remote Village
Completed a successful project that ensures that students in the rural or remote communities will be able to participate in digital learning. The project was funded by IEEE R10 grant, namely IEEE Humanitarian Activities Committee (HAC). This project has aimed to bridge and bring educational resources at doorstep, to every child in rural areas of Fiji. The IEEE Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology is providing funding to IEEE professional members who prepare and implement humanitarian technology and sustainable development projects in their local communities. The projects are required to address one or more of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Students in remote communities to access digital learning
Educational Learning Support to Remote Village
The University of the South Pacific’s (USP) School of Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics (STEMP) completed a project that ensured students in rural or remote communities could participate in digital learning. The project, ‘Educational Resource Centre for Remotely Located School Students in Fiji: Free to All’, aimed to bridge and bring educational resources to every child’s doorstep in rural areas of Fiji. Under this project, a standalone server with remote access facility was set up in two schools, Vunikavikaloa Arya School, Rakiraki and Bureivanua District School, Nayavu.
“The Wireless Routers connect to the central gateway creating a private network. The whole system was set up including smart TV as per convenience for students, so, they will have the flexibility of viewing the resources at any time without the need of internet,”. It was also noticed that during a visit to one of the villages, Bureivanua village had not connected to the main power grid for continuous electricity supply. The headteacher of Bureivanua District School acknowledged the help provided by USP and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and raised a concern that the school depended only on a small generator to power the one classroom.
PRESS RELEASE: Students in Remote Communities to Access Digital Learning
“In the near future, STEMP would like to propose a smart energy harvesting solution for providing a noise-free and economical power solution to the school,” he added. The project was funded by the IEEE R10 grant, namely IEEE Humanitarian Activities Committee (HAC). The IEEE Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology (SIGHT) provides funding to IEEE professional members who prepare and implement humanitarian technology and sustainable development projects in their local communities. These projects must address one or more of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).