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Smart Villages Research Group

Payment-Enforcement Technology and Business Models for High-Impact Borehole Solarisation in Tanzania 


Partners: Smart Villages Research Group Ltd (Lead), Aptech Africa Ltd, Orkonerei Maasai Social Initiatives

Country: Tanzania

Technology: Next generation solar technologies and business models

Stage: Mid

Stage: 9

In this project, we intend to research and test technology-solutions to integrate into our systems that could remotely disable them in the event of repayment defaults. We will look at alternatives for performing the control function, and how to make them non-bypassable, and then test their performance to revise our business and technology model. If successful, this will remove the single greatest barrier to our ability to scale-up this