WHO: Grey-box is social innovation startup that is working on providing free wifi access to educational content in areas where internet and electricity access is problematic.

WHY: 50% of the world lives offline – they haven’t connected to the internet in the last 3 months. In Africa, the average cost for 1GB of data is 7% of the average monthly salary. Even in North America, 50% of rural Canada does not have access to the minimum speed for internet. We believe that this is a solvable problem.

HOW: In a nutshell, the current project (codenamed: Web Crawler) takes the shape of a web browser extension (chrome and chromium) that allows scraping individual webpages or even a whole domain (ex: 5 pages deep). The result is a cloned website that can be accessed by remote communities without reliable access to the internet.

The responsibilities include tasks such as:

• Active participation in the design of functionalities for the current prototype application.
• Literature review of existing solutions
• Develop a prototype
• Test Prototype over a variety of sites
• Refactoring of existing code.
• Maintaining code and documenting incremental progress.
• Assist in troubleshooting and debugging issues to ensure the stability and reliability of the application.

Professional attributes

• Ability to communicate clearly orally and in writing (with clients and colleagues)
• Proactive and honest (#nobullshit)
• Fond of self-learning, i.e. you are not afraid to use Stack Overflow