Portfolio

Learn about the projects we drive to empower people through meaningful access to and use of technology.

Projects

Tierra Colombia

We strengthen the capacities of coffee farmers and their families and transform their lives by implementing TVWS connectivity, access to precision agriculture devices, use and appropriation of ICT tools, and innovation labs for young people.

  • Focus on improving productivity, access to markets, and tools for daily life and education.
  • Developed in an area at the epicenter of peacebuilding and post-conflict.
  • Recognized as one of the 10 most innovative initiatives of 2017 by CAF and Compromiso Empresarial magazine.
  • Winner of the IoT Innovation Award from the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance at the DSA Global Summit (London, 2018).

Beneficiaries

Coffee growers and their families, teachers in the region, women coffee growers, and young people.

Results

  • 135 coffee growers benefited

  • 75 teachers and 53 young people impacted

  • 5 farms and 2 schools connected via TVWS

  • 5 IoT devices transmitting in real time to an app.

  • Telemedicine pilot program with 17 coffee growers in 4 specialties.

Audience

Mesetas, Lejanías, and San Juan de Arama (Meta, Colombia).

Date

April 2016 – November 2020.

Ally

Giuseppe and Pericle Lavazza Onlus Foundation, Hivos, ALO. Support from: Microsoft, National Spectrum Agency, Carcafé, and SAP.