Drew Cogbill | Thesis Blog

At the end of my summer explorations, here are my goals and motivations going into the thesis academic year:

• Create a way for people living poverty to communicate with greater ease and affordability
• Deliver ‘the internet’ in some way via voice and/or SMS
• Prototype work in Belize as this is the context I’m most familiar with
• Make a sustainable system - the best way to facilitate this seems to be by creating a for-profit or non-loss business

These are things I need to cull through before class starts (beyond my paper and presentation that are due):

• Interviews that need to be transcribed
• Finishing maps which I’ve already made notes and observations for
• A bit of prototyping
• Reading through my increasing pile of academic papers