Community-driven ownership
Piso-coin vendo machines and vouchers that let the community co-fund its own internet infrastructure, at a fraction of the cost of a single subscription.
The problem, in your words.
Getting a community connected is one step. Keeping digitalisation going for the long term is the harder one.
Keeping a connection going after the project
A Philippine model, delivered by our team in Iloilo. We do not run it in Singapore.
Where it matters to a Singapore organisation is what happens after a project ends. If you fund a connection for a barangay, through a school partnership, a church mission or a company volunteering trip, the monthly subscription is the cost that carries on after your funding period. Vendo machines and vouchers let residents pay for what they use, a peso at a time, and share that cost between them. Each person pays a fraction of what a single subscription would cost, and the bill is not left with one sponsor or one household.
Our Philippines team sets this up with the local government unit or SK council, and it can run on a connection we set up and manage for the community. It is part of the Smart Barangay suite, with network management, solar power and applications alongside it. If you are planning a project like this from Singapore, talk to us before the budget is fixed, so the running costs are in the plan from the start.
The Philippines page explains how the machines and vouchers work, and where our team has set them up.
To promote long-term sustainability in digitalisation initiatives, we run a system of Piso-coin vendo machines and vouchers.
Individuals can help to co-fund the costs of the infrastructure, at a fraction of the cost associated with a single internet subscription.
More of what we do
- Applications & Portals
- Digital Infrastructure
- Digitalisation Advisory
- Cloud-Based Communications
- Singpass & National ID Integration
- Payments & Information Portals
- Hardware & Community Access
- Fully managed internet set-up
- Network management
- Sustainable energy
- Low-connectivity resilient applications
- IoT-enabled solutions