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Eight startups including Nigeria’s Coldhubs, receive Microsoft’s Airband grant

Team Startup Lagos by Team Startup Lagos
August 6, 2018
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Via Microsoft’s third annual Airband Grant Fund, Nigeria’s AgriTech startup, ColdHubs, Rwanda’s MeshPower & Kenya’s Agsol have received an amount of funding for using TV white spaces and other technologies to expand access to internet-enabled solutions. Microsoft wants these startups to keep doing what what do and improve internet access in the continent and beyond.

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Others that were also awarded grants include V Wireless, Skylark Wireless, Tribal Digital Village and Numbers4Health and ME Solshare from Bangladesh.

They hold the belief that these start-ups are overcoming barriers to provide affordable internet access to unconnected and underserved communities using TV white spaces (TVWS) and other promising last-mile access technologies.

According to them, “Our grant fund will provide financing, technology, mentorship, networking opportunities and other support to help scale these start-ups’ innovative new technologies, services and business models. The Airband Grant Fund is part of the Microsoft Airband Initiative, launched last year to extend broadband access across the United States and, ultimately, connectivity around the globe,”

Access to internet is one pillar now taken seriously by both companies and individuals. It could be said to be the backbone of a community. Evident is the recent launch of Google station in Nigeria, which aims to provide free internet access for citizens. Coldhubs, an AgriTech company are also transforming their refrigerated crop storage rooms into Wi-Fi hot spots using TVWS technology to empower smallholder farmers.

There’s no stopping what access to the internet can do to different sectors. For agriculture, in Coldhubs case, it’ll enable farmers to get online and access agricultural training, resources to improve crop yields and marketing and digital skills training.

Microsoft says that, “And in the coming months, we’ll have more to share on the exciting progress we’re making on our Airband Initiative, and our goal to deliver broadband to 2 million rural Americans by 2022, and to extend connectivity to underserved communities around the world.”

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