The COVID-19 pandemic presents stifling challenges to education: school shutdowns have expedited the need for digitization of economies and reliable, accessible Internet access. In response, HIP Consult and its data visualization and analytics platform, InfraNav, developed a portal for baselining, extending, and improving school ecosystem connectivity.
HIP Consult recently launched a pilot of the portal, School Locator, with the Chilean Ministry of Education (MINEDUC) and Fundacíon Chile to promote and optimize connectivity and adoption of digital services for schools and their students across Chile.
Designed to support national connectivity objectives during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, School Locator is an interactive web application that provides localized insights for school connectivity through data visualization and analysis. Its dynamic maps and dashboards help users assess school connectivity status, technology type, download speed, and contextual characteristics. These insights enable users to identity outliers and establish opportunities to improve quality of service and/or coverage.
In 2021, the team will focus on developing additional capabilities in order to extend and improve connectivity to schools as well as the surrounding communities. New features on the horizon include a Quality of Service (QoS) dashboard and reporting and feedback system mechanisms, among others.
