Get Box
Get Box is Jangala’s long-term, end-to-end solution to digital poverty for small group contexts, such as households struggling to pay their broadband or mobile data bills. We work with charities and organisational partners to deploy Get Boxes to individuals and households facing digital poverty.
The Wi-Fi network generated by Get Box is reliable, safe and secure. Jangala’s remote management and visibility metrics make it easy for our our project partners - such as charities providing support to vulnerable people - to receive usage statistics.
Do you need to connect more than 20 people at once? Big Box is Jangala’s other device, which provides secure, high-performance Wi-Fi for up to thousands of users in demanding environments.
Get Box in Action
Digital poverty isn't confined to low- and middle-income countries; even in wealthy societies like the UK, digital divides persist. Only 5% of state school teachers report all their students have home internet access (Sutton Trust, 2021), while 35% of young people face online restrictions due to limited family data (Nominet Digital Youth Index, 2022). Among older adults, 37% of over-75s—around 2 million people—are digitally excluded (AgeUK, 2021).
Get Box is a simple, plug-and-play solution: connect it to mains power, insert a mobile data SIM, and it’s ready in a minute. Features like time-of-day restrictions, content blocking, and bandwidth optimisation make it secure, cost-effective, and ideal for organisations on tight budgets. Remote updates and monitoring ensure smooth operation, while usage stats help measure performance without compromising privacy.
If your organisation or grassroots group supports vulnerable people and families and seeks to address digital poverty, we’d love to connect with you.
VULNERABLE USERS
When the Covid-19 pandemic hit the UK, critical health and social services moved online. Many of these services have not returned to in-person delivery and remained online, leaving vulnerable people without fixed broadband unable to access services they rely upon, such as mental health services and specialist outpatient appointments.
Our partnership with the Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust provided patients of the Trust’s counselling services with Get Boxes, allowing them to access their online appointments and receive crucial care. They were also provided with devices and digital skills training if they needed it, to support their engagement in their sessions.
Get Box has also provided connectivity to a women’s emergency housing shelter in Essex, allowing women and their children staying in the 10 bedroom accommodation to access social services, employment & education opportunities, and stay in touch with loved ones. Meanwhile in Northern Ireland, Get Box is connecting refugee rights activists through the Participation & Practice of Rights.
EDUCATION, TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Many young people in the UK don’t have a reliable internet connection at home, with approximately 4% of school-aged children only able to access the internet via a mobile device (e.g. via a smartphone, tethering, or dongle) according to Ofcom research.
This can have substantial effects on their education, making research difficult and placing barriers to engagement with online tutoring and distance learning. All of this places students at a disadvantage compared to their peers, exacerbating existing social divides.
Get Box has been developed for these purposes and Jangala is already running a number of projects with schools and education charities in the UK to connect students at home. Our partnership with The Access Project has connected 120 financially vulnerable households to allow students to participate in tutorials run by the charity and similarly, Jangala provided 35 Get Boxes via our partnership with an East London secondary school to children from low-income households and their families.
