Schools for a connectivity programme
Schools ranked by the children around them, for connectivity.
What it does
Every year: schools in your region with how many children live around each, ranked, for an education connectivity programme.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Kigali, find schools, primary schools and secondary schools in the area, count who lives around, work out new fields, sort them by children and keep the top 50, then add row in Google Sheets and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Connecting schools reaches the most children where they gather. The list ranks them.
Who it is for
Telecom & connectivity. Mobile operators, internet providers and phone retailers planning shops, dealers and network capacity. Every use case for telecom
Best use cases
- A telecom’s CSR programme
- An education ministry
- An NGO for digital inclusion
What each run gives you
- A Google Sheet
The time it saves
Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 120 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 2 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 8 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- My regionWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- SchoolsxMap data · Nearby placesPlaces around a point from xMap’s own places database (300M+ places, refreshed every month): pick the types of place (more than 5,000, such as Restaurant, Cafe, Pharmacy, Hospital or Gas station, or a whole group of them) and how far to look.
- Who lives aroundxMap data · DemographicsWho lives in an area: the number of residents, men and women, and nine age groups, from xMap’s population grid (hexagons of about 0.1 km², about 100 countries).
- Children aroundLogic · Calculated fieldAdds fields worked out from the others: a number, a text or a yes/no.
- Best 50 firstLogic · Sort and limitPuts the items in order, and can keep only the first ones: the 10 best rated, the 20 nearest, the highest fit scores.
- Add them to the programme planApp · Google SheetsCreate, edit, and collaborate on spreadsheets online
- Email me the resultsAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.
Use it now
Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.
How to set it up
- Ask the map a question: How many of a kind of place, how many people for each, and where the gaps are, answered on the spot.
- Count what is around each of your places: Competitors, footfall magnets or services within a distance of each site.
- Compare sites side by side: Two or three spots measured the same way, one column each, the best of every row marked and the best site and why.
- An instant site report of any spot: Paused for now while xMap improves the data behind it. Reports already made still open.
- Location intelligence: Using where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
- Catchment area: The area a store or service draws its customers from.
- Drive time vs radius: Two ways to draw the area around a site, and when each is good enough.
More for Telecom & connectivity
- Where to open the next phone shop: The most populated blocks with the fewest phone shops, scored and approved.
- Phone retail footprint across India: Phone shops across two big cities, by operator, brand and independent, with a report.
- Small businesses matched to the right bundle: Small businesses matched to the right bundle, with a pitch, sent to the nearest agent.
- New apartment blocks for door-to-door internet sales: Apartment buildings that opened this year, with the people around each, for your door-to-door internet team.
- Campuses for student plan pop-ups: Campuses scored for a student plan pop-up.
- Independent phone shops to recruit as dealers: Independent phone shops to recruit as dealers, sent to the nearest territory manager.