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Add to Preferred SourcesAround 3,000 residents in six isolated communities in the Napo River basin have now mobile broadband access and 13 healthcare facilities offering telemedicine services.
The NAPO project: “Social Innovation with Connectivity and Health: 3G Mobile Telephony and Maternal and Child Care in Amazonian Communities” aims to guarantee the right to communications of rural populations, focusing on the Peruvian Amazon as a particularly isolated region.
This initiative involves the use of technology as a key tool to drive rural development processes, in line with Sustainable Development Goal No. 9, which focuses on innovation and infrastructure in vulnerable areas.
In partnership with Social Innovation, CAF, the EHAS Foundation and the PUCP are currently focusing their efforts on extending this model to other departments in Peru with rural areas that have similar communication needs, such as Cusco and Cajamarca, in line with the “Internet for All” project, a venture sponsored by Telefónica, CAF and other strategic partners.
Original source: CAF
Published on 05 August 2019