Empowering people with disability in rural farming areas through creative capacity building
Project Partner who provides engineering, design process and evaluation expertise.
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Location: Auckland, New Zealand
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Research
0pt
Idea
31pt
Evaluation
0pt
Collaboration
8pt
Total
39pt
Project Partner who provides engineering, design process and evaluation expertise.
This is a great idea and appears to have some good understanding of the access to and reliability of technology in remote areas in the US.
It is a challenge that needs central body support which you have talked about and to be able to support this effectively, there needs to be solid foundations which I think this project can provide, great work. The increasing disconnection between urban and rural populations is a challenge worldwide and this sounds like a good starting point for many communities, both developed and developing. I have a couple of questions;
1. The financial sustainability of the project is not 100% clear to me, could you please provide some more detail on long term income/funding generation?
2. Have you found any foreseeable long-term challenges in relation to having remote employees for urban companies? In relation to the general human desire for connectedness, remote workers may find that being physical disconnected from the office environment isolating. Is the plan for RSF to have employees based in a rural hub which will be supported and furnished by partner organisations or for people to be able to work from their homes?
Thanks for the answer Katie, this is really cool! Some good learning here for me to take back to my project too.
Andrew
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