WiHood
Eddaveine 28A
Oslo
Oslo
0772
Developing countries
Operating for 1-5 years
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WiHood is a virtual PC desktop service for children. It provides a complete PC desktop including PC applications and online storage for children in developing countries. We are providing WiHood PC desktop to children in Kenya, Senegal and South Africa.
WiHood is made for children who have never seen or used a PC before. We want every child to benefit from PC and internet technology.
Our service provides every child with their own virtual PC desktop. We provide an entire schools with a PCs for each student. These virtual PCs already include software for leaning,
This lowers the cost of providing a modern education with PCs by over 99% and eliminates local PC maintenance and problems.
WiHood allows people to benefit from PCs, not spend time learning how to fix them.
Children & Youth , At risk youth , Boys' development , Child protection , Education , Education reform , Girls' development , Youth development , Youth leadership , Development & Prosperity , Adult education , Business , Communications , Community development , Corporate social responsibility , Economic development , Globalization , Information technology , Infrastructure , Networking , Philanthropy , Rural development , Social Enterprise , Technology , Energy conservation , Health education , Women's issues , Democracy and voting , Women's Issues , Youth leadership.
In April, we began a project in Kenya to supply 465 girls in an all girls school with WiHood's virtual PC desktop service. The school has 5 old PCs that utilize WiHood to provide each girl with their own virtual PC desktop.
In May, we partnered with HopeRuns (HopeRuns.org) to provide WiHood to 400 AID orphans in a school in Kenya that HopeRuns works closely with.
We are currently talking to other organizations in Africa to supply WiHood to thousands of more students in different African countries and other developing communities.
WiHood bridges the digital divide by providing a virtual PC desktop service that functions on any old PC with an internet connection. This one PC can provide hundreds of people with a personal and customized PC.
WiHood complements the OLPC project by making the OLPC much faster, easier to use and include more programs with no additional cost or maintenance.
WiHood is providing its service for free to large groups of users like our project in Kenya with the all girls school. We continue to look for more groups that wish to use WiHood's service for free.
We are also speaking to companies to fulfill their CSR by branding the WiHood service with their own name and subsidizing the service so that more people can receive WiHood's services for free.
In year 1, we define success in being able to have the service functioning reliably and have our first customers. This is the year that we learn everyday as to what people want versus what we thought they wanted. We also hope to sell enough WiHood USB bracelets to fund our philanthropic projects in Africa.
In year 2, we define success in having a marketing and business plan that increase the quantity of users and begin generating re-occurring income so the service can continue functioning.
In year 3, we define success by having tens of thousands of users and the WiHood brand being recognized for its commitment to helping others and willingness to provide its service for free while still breaking-even.
Yes, I do. I also have a 3 year Pro-Forma in the form of a Excel spreadsheet.
1) Market attention is the most critical. The more users we have the greater our cost but also the greater the potential income we can earn.
2) Funds to pay for the cost of operating the service. The WiHood service does have a cost of operation and we need funds to keep it functioning long enough until we are generating enough revenue to be self sustaining.
Credibility, as a startup, we know we are professional but the world does not know that yet. We seek to establish global credibility so that users, supporters, and partners truly feel safe in supporting WiHood's mission of bridging the global digital divide.
The result would be that WiHood is defined as the company that provides an immediate global digital divide solution for everyone, immediately and this generation of WiHood users are employable, well educated and are providing for their families.
When my daughter came home from school and told me that her classmates could not do there homework because they did not have a PC and internet connection. I thought that after 15 years of IT and Telecommunications experience, that I can do something about it.
My name is Thomas F. Anglero. I have over 40,000 Goggle references to the different accomplishes I have accumulated over the years. In 2001, CNN interviewed my live in their NYC studio to discuss my innovation in creating a new telephone company using the internet. I have received a international patent of my previous innovation.
I am an American (NYC) living in Oslo, Norway with my wife and three kids.
I received an email from Ashoka's email newsletter and it provided a link and description of the service.
Not having the funds to continue providing our WiHood IT service. We provide all the WiHood desktops from our servers and this has a cost to operate monthly. As long as we can pay the monthly cost of our service, we can continue providing our service.
No, we are not. We are self financed.
No, but we are an established corporation in Norway as "WiHood AS" and are also incorporated in the US as "WiHood LLC".
WiHood has been functioning since August 2007, so we are less then two years old.
Yes, we have two people in our BoD.
No
No
No
We would like to have partnerships but do not have any.
We can fulfill corporations CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) by providing WiHood's service in their corporate name. The local community would think more positive about the corporation and how much it cares about the young people in the community.
We project our growth to be between 1,000 - 10,000 WiHood users annually. We would like to grow much more and can handle more users.
We have one full-time employee, Thomas F. Anglero, founder.
For-profit
None of the above.