Jangala
Richard Thanki is the Managing Director, Head of Technology, and a Founder of Jangala, a UK-based not-for-profit technology start-up focused on providing internet access to those affected by disasters since January 2018. Prior to this role, Richard Thanki worked as a consultant from September 2012 to May 2017, providing telecommunications policy expertise to clients such as Microsoft and Google. Richard Thanki also served as a Research Project Manager at ECS Partners, University of Southampton, where efforts were made to analyze the social and economic impacts of affordable internet initiatives in Sub-Saharan Africa. Earlier career experience includes positions as a Consultant at Perspective Associates and as a Senior Associate at Ofcom. Richard Thanki holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Southampton and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Oxford.
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Jangala
Jangala is a technology not-for-profit on a mission to connect marginalised and underserved people in communities globally to the internet - from healthcare clinics in the Himalayas, refugee camps in Kenya to schools in remote parts of India, Uganda and Colombia. We also deploy our Wi-Fi systems to support emergency relief workers and communities in humanitarian disasters, such as the recent Türkiye and Syria earthquakes. To date we’ve connected over 100,000 people with our easy to use award-winning technology. Our goal is to connect millions of people and communities to the internet enabling them to rise out of poverty, recover from disaster and for all of us to benefit from a more inclusive, equitable world. Jangala designs, manufactures and globally deploys our self-designed and self-developed products Big Box and Get Box from our base in the UK. These small portable Wi-Fi connectivity systems are easy to use and can transform any form of internet connectivity into scalable high-quality Wi-Fi. Big Box and Get Box eliminate the need for costly technical expertise making it easy to set-up Wi-Fi wherever it is needed. Proud to be Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge Winner; Clifford Chance SDG Award Winner 2022; IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Winner 2022; World Food Programme Humanitarian Innovator Accelerator Finalists 2023.