Rural Development
Alexius International approaches rural development with sustainability and creativity in mind. For development work to deliver long-term results, projects need to be designed in a way suited for the particular community and the needs, capital, and other resources available. Alexius' goal with rural development is to introduce technological systems in a way that makes them accessible and applicable to a community’s way of life. By establishing infrastructures within rural communities and providing the proper training for maintenance and use, Alexius actively participates in improving the quality of life in regions across the globe.
Projects in which Alexius has focused on rural development are:
- Last Mile Initiative
- Overview of LMI.
- LMI Colombia
- Alexius helped expand telecommunications access into rural Colombia, which helps institutionalize democracy and involve people in the nation's economy.
- LMI Ecuador
- Alexius partnered with USAID to deploy a high speed Internet connectivity through the Credit Union network in order to service rural communities.
- LMI Guatemala
- In this project, Alexius created the Oportunet brand, under which micro-telcos operate. Through this, rural communities gained access to telecommunications, which then delivered new social and economic opportunities to those communities.
- LMI Paraguay
- LMI-Paraguay provided internet access to 100 organizations throughout Paraguay, before the private sector brought internet access to them, in order to help them learn how to maximize the community benefits of internet access.
- LMI Peru
- Alexius and partners deployed one of the first micro-telcos in Peru, giving various organizations internet access. After seeing the vast development potential, the Peruvian government allocated more funds to create more micro-telcos in rural areas.
- Micro-Telco in a Box
- An integrated kit composed of basic telecommunication hardware and a set of Open Source applications and platforms.
