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MalawiMalawi

  • Rodrick Walusa

  • Amos Mtonya

  • Rodrick Walusa

WMO Secretariat

  • Enrico Fucile

  • Hassan HaddouchTimo Proescholdt

  • Abubakr Salih Babiker

  • Mark Majodina

  • Xiaoxia Chen

Goals

To discuss the plan for the installation of the antennas.

Item

Presenter

Notes

1

Enrico

Introduce Hassan and Abubakr from Secretariat to the team.

  • Hassan is a WIS2.0 manager and will work on the project.

  • Abubakr is a techincal coordinator for Infrastructure Department.

2

Enrico

  • antennas status in Malawi

    • Will be arriving today in Malawi (Rodrick)

  • plan to install the antennas

    • when: probably two weeks later

    • replace the battery at the stations shortly

  • Situation of Malawi Stations

    • 18 stations out of 44 are back online

    • Mauritz will set up the rest of stations

  • The meeting to discuss the antennas installation

    • Amos: preparation is undergoing. From next Monday, we will discuss the plan.

    • The team agrees that meeting to update the progress to be scheduled on 12 Oct (10am )

3

Discussion

  • Changes to solutions

    • Data tranferred on FTP server

    • A process to produce the bufr data

    • two different options provided: cloud & same system locally

  • meeting with Rodrick and Amos to discuss Internet issue

    • Hassan has experience in Morocco, cheaper price with guaranteed service

    • Enrico to set up another meeting to discuss it

  • Internet connection situation (service level)

    • Rodrick: to provide information about it, including service purchased from provider

    • Hassan: suggests to contact Internet provider to provide, including the proposal of solutions, type of current contract

    • Enrico: Any dedicated line at Malawi?

    • Amos: good guaranteed service will come at a high price

    • Enrico: Internet in Malawi is very expensive and experience in other countries can be a guide for Malawi solutions

    • Enrico: asks Rodrick to provide the information from the current provider on the current contract

Action items

  •  Enrico: to set up two meetings, one to update the progress on antennas installation on 12 October, the other one to discuss the Internet solutions in Malawi
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  • Rodrick: to provide the information on Internet solutions, current contract information
  •  Enrico: to contact DWD to check the 18 stations' data exchange and statistics

Next meeting

12 October 2021