SnT’s Michael Dazhi Wins IEEE Internet for All Prize

In a developed society, using the internet has become a part of our everyday routine. It often constitutes our working day, as well as time spent relaxing in the evening - in fact, the idea of living without it might now feel impossible. However, 37% of the world's population have never used the internet - that's close to three billion people. This is what's known as the digital divide : the gap between the population that benefits from an internet connection and those who don't have access to it. Even amongst the remaining percentage who do have access to the internet, hundreds of millions may only use it from time to time, or have poor quality of service due to low connection speed and high delay. Michael Dazhi, a doctoral researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) of the University of Luxembourg, won second prize for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region of the Internet for All competition, run by the communications society (COMSOC) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). In the contest, each participant had to develop a viable proposal to provide internet to neglected communities in different regions of the world.