Digital Africa Water Network (DAWN)

数字非洲水网络（DAWN）将召集非洲的学术专家、全球移动产业、非洲农村供水网络、一个新的农村供水服务提供商联盟和政府，在共同开发一个变革性的数字化项目中创建一个包容性网络。我们将重点关注智慧社区和数字创新的发展挑战，在牛津大学的支持下推进可持续金融、制度设计和移动数据方面的研究和实践。为非洲所有农村居民提供可靠的饮用水将改变数百万人的生活，其社会、经济和健康成果将超出可持续发展目标6。数字创新已经在非洲的通信、金融、交通、卫生和能源领域产生了影响。大多数倡议都强调城市环境。我们寻求支持，以创建一个数字非洲水网络（DAWN），该网络明确侧重于关注以下方面的数字模型：在农村地区，超过3.3亿人无法在离家30分钟的路程内获得基本饮用水（UNICEF/JMP, 2017）。四分之一的农村供水点在任何时候都不能工作，再加上维修时间长达一个月或更长时间，这一挑战的规模和紧迫性暴露了现有模式、政策和实践的局限性。认识到这一持久的发展挑战，非洲水部长理事会（AMCOW）在其所有55个非洲国家到2030年的战略中确定了水安全和可持续的水融资。DAWN将与AMCOW召开一系列会议，以确定和制定共同的工作计划，以建立未来的伙伴关系。DAWN在支持国家水务局确定、测试和推广创新模式方面具有独特的地位。这将建立在AMCOW与农村供水网络（RWSN）的合作基础上，该网络拥有来自政府、从业者、私营部门和学术界的11,000多名成员，致力于在非洲和全球推广“可持续服务”。DAWN将在马里、乌干达和赞比亚召集领先的非洲学者和机构，以促进一个更具包容性和创新性的空间，以利用当地的专业知识和见解开发数字解决方案。除此之外，GSMA还将代表全球移动产业，拥有400多家成员，支持一系列移动促进发展项目，使卫生、能源、农业、水和卫生领域的5800万人受益。迄今为止，农村供水一直是数字创新领域的一个空白。DAWN将通过与Uptime联盟的合作来解决这一差距。Uptime项目由牛津大学于2018年发起，是新一代农村供水服务交付模式，基于大规模运行的基于绩效的模式。Uptime利用数字创新为布基纳法索、中非共和国、肯尼亚和乌干达的100多万人提供专业的维护服务。Uptime的创新模式补充了AMCOW的政策和规模、非洲学术卓越、GSMA的数字创新以及RWSN的行业领导地位。

The Digital Africa Water Network (DAWN) will convene African academic expertise, the global mobile industry, Africa's rural water supply network, a new consortium of rural water service providers, and government to create an inclusive network in the co-development of a transformative, digitally enabled programme. We will focus on the development challenges of Smart Communities and digital innovation to advance research and practice on sustainable finance, institutional design and mobile data supported by the University of Oxford.Reliable access to drinking water for all rural dwellers in Africa will transform the lives of millions of people, with social, economic and health outcomes that extend beyond SDG 6. Digital innovations are already making an impact in Africa in communications, finance, transport, health and energy. Most initiatives have emphasised urban settings. We seek support to create a Digital Africa Water Network (DAWN) that is explicitly focused on digital models that are focussed on? rural areas where over 330 million people lack basic drinking water within 30 minutes of the home (UNICEF/JMP, 2017). With one in four rural waterpoints not working at any one time, compounded by repair times of a month or more, the scale and urgency of the challenge exposes the limits of established models, policy and practice. Recognising this enduring development challenge, the African Ministerial Council for Water (AMCOW) has identified water security and sustainable finance for water in its strategy for all 55 African countries to 2030. With unique status to support national water ministries identify, test and scale innovative models, DAWN will convene a series of meetings with AMCOW to identify and develop a shared programme of work to establish a future partnership. This will build on AMCOW's collaboration with the Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN) with over 11,000 members from government, practitioners, private sector and academia working to promote 'Sustainable Services' in Africa, and globally. DAWN will convene leading African academics, and institutes in Mali, Uganda and Zambia, to promote a more inclusive and innovative space for developing digital solutions with local expertise and insights. This will be complemented by GSMA representing the global mobile industry with over 400 members supporting a portfolio of Mobile for Development projects benefiting 58 million people in the areas of health, energy, agriculture, water and sanitation. Rural water has been a gap in this digital innovation space to date.DAWN is positioned to address this gap through partnership with the Uptime consortium. Convened by the University of Oxford in 2018, Uptime is a new generation of rural water, service delivery models based on a performance-based model working at scale. Uptime delivers professional maintenance services using digital innovations to over one million people in Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Kenya and Uganda today. Uptime's innovative model complements the policy and scale of AMCOW, African academic excellence, GSMA's digital innovation, and RWSN's sector leadership.