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Replication journey

People & operations

What does delivery truly require?

Chapter purpose

The real operating model includes volunteer time, relationships, donated expertise and enabling costs.

Practical implications

What this means in practice

  1. 01

    A fifteen-person volunteer team met weekly for roughly seven months before delivery.

  2. 02

    Warm faculty relationships outperformed cold institutional outreach.

  3. 03

    Actual cash spend was about US$1,480 against an initial US$15,500 budget because expertise and platforms were donated.

  4. 04

    Internet data, power and volunteer time belong in the honest budget.