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• Soft-launching DuoNB Community 🚀

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DuoNB New Site Ready 🚀

Hey everyone,

We’re excited to announce some awesome news for the DuoNB ecosystem! We’ve officially welcomed Mr. Dongyang from the Energon team, along with OG members ZoomQuiet and Chance Jiang, to the DuoNB Foundation website admin.

Since Energon (Shanghai) became DuoNB’s HQ, things haven’t slowed down. We’re thrilled to launch Hagans, our very first OBM (Original Branding Manufacturer) in Ghana, Africa! This national-level franchise store, Hagans, dedicated to selling and servicing DuoNB home systems to the country of Ghana, has already signed a strategic partnership with Energon (Shanghai) to take on the grand mission of stablizing electricity supply for Ghana, an booming African country.

With all this fantastic groundwork laid, it’s time to reignite the DuoNB community, especially our community portal duonb.org. We’ve moved the site to a new home on Github and Cloudflare Pages (thanks to Cloudflare’s awesome free tier for hosting static content!).

We’ve got tons of exciting things in the pipeline for all the renewed interest buzzing around the DuoNB Framework – the next-generation sustainable home system that’s taking the world by storm.

Stay tuned for more!

Best,

The DuoNB Core Team

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Ghana President Endorsed DuoNB DC Home Solutions at Ghana-China Business Forum (Shenzhen) 🚀

2024年中非合作论坛峰会于2024年9月4日至6日在中国北京举行，非方由加纳共和国总统纳纳·阿库福-阿多阁下率领高级代表团出席。为推进加纳共和国的光储直柔产业化商业化应用，推广中国的“绿色能源方案”，加强加纳和中国的技术、商业合作，2024年9月7日下午，“加纳-中国投资促进会暨光储直柔点亮加纳发布会”在中国广东省深圳市福田区成功举办。

加纳-中国投资促进会暨光储直柔点亮加纳发布会

大会邀请了加纳共和国总统纳纳·阿库福-阿多阁下、加纳共和国驻中华人民共和国大使温弗雷德·哈蒙德及诸多加纳当地的商业、企业嘉宾与中国制造企业、科技企业代表300+人一同参会交流。参会者共同畅言加纳-中国广阔的产业投资前景，探讨光储直柔应用的发展潜力，商议两国的产业链和产品生态的建设，不仅促进了两国企业间技术交流与合作意向的达成，更为推动直流技术领域的创新发展注入了新的活力与动能。

非方率团到访

本次大会以“论坛研讨+实物展示”的多元化模式，展现了市场需求引领产品研发，以产品落地反哺并坚定研发信心的相互促进、相得益彰的良性循环体系。论坛由加纳共和国驻华大使馆、加纳投资促进中心主办，由中国建筑节能协会光储直柔专业委员会（以下简称“光储直柔专委会”）联合能罡(上海)科技有限公司、LinkTech Global LTD（加纳）、荣电集团、科大讯飞股份有限公司等企业共同承办，同期举办了小型直流产品展览会，亮点纷呈，现场反响热烈。

直流产品展览会现场

大会的序幕从加纳驻华大使哈蒙德的致辞中缓缓拉开。他在致辞中提到，作为加纳共和国驻中华人民共和国的大使，亲自见证了在中国投资力量的推动下，基于双方共享的价值观与相互尊重的基石，加纳所经历的深刻变革与蓬勃发展。目前，约有五万名中国公民在加纳经济的多个领域积极活跃，携手共创繁荣未来，这一数字见证了双方合作的广度与深度。

加纳驻华大使-哈蒙德致辞

加纳总统纳纳·阿库褔-阿多阁下在致辞中介绍了加纳良好的营商、投资环境和稳步增强的经济实力，并强调了两国持续推进深入合作的重要性，并提出了在中国和加纳之间建立“具有韧性的互惠合作”的倡议。

加纳总统-纳纳.阿库福-阿多致辞

大会中，LinkTech Global Ltd公司CEO-Francis、能罡(上海)科技有限公司创始人尤中海先生，先后上台演讲，向参会者分享了全新的加纳品牌“HAGANS”的经验、介绍了“光储直柔”产业愿景和新颖的国际商业合作模式。

LinkTech Global Ltd公司CEO-Francis演讲

能罡（上海）科技有限公司创始人-尤中海演讲

在加纳经贸部长详细介绍了加纳的营商和投资环境后，由多位加纳参会嘉宾和中国企业代表轮流上台分享经验，使得“加纳各领域的产业投资现状”和“中国的光储直柔产业能力”，相互映衬、自成一体。

会议现场

光储直柔专委会作为积极倡导并引领“一带一路”倡议下绿色能源产业蓬勃发展的第三方平台，一直深耕于光储直柔技术，致力于搭建技术引领和商业合作的桥梁，促进更多中国绿色能源技术的国际应用，为能源转型和可持续发展提供坚实的技术支撑。同时积极引领企业跨越国界，深化全球商业合作，为共同构建光储直柔产业新生态链贡献力量。

期盼更多志同道合的直流盟友们加入光储直柔专委会，投身到光储直柔的事业中来，能建立打造如“HAGANS”般具有全球影响力的独立品牌，并以此为纽带，以光储直柔产业为旗帜，引领全球科技产业新生态链的构建与发展，让中国新兴的科技力量扬帆出海，迈出国门，走向世界，携手推动全球绿色能源可持续发展的未来。

– DuoNB Team

Lighting up Africa Conference was successfully held in Jinhua 🚀

To promote the global industrial commercialization of direct current flexible distribution based on photovoltaic and energy storage to popularize the “Chinese solution” in the global energy field, a successful conference was held in the afternoon of July 25, 2024, in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province with the theme, “Building the Future from ‘Chip’ – Lighting up Africa” The conference was hosted by Zhejiang Jinxun Digital Technology Co., Ltd., Nenggang (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd., and LinkTech Global LTD (Ghana). The Ambassador and Consul General of Ghana, and the Trade officer and many guests from the business and education sectors in Ghana, as well as representatives of related enterprises in the domestic direct current flexible distribution based on photovoltaic and energy storage industry were invited to attend, communicate, and grace the occasion.

During the conference, all participants spoke enthusiastically and discussed the potentials of industrial chips, the evolution of direct current flexible distribution based on photovoltaic and energy storage applications, overseas market prospects, and the globalization path of products. They also witnessed the release of the “Solution for Lighting up African Families’ Home, Small Businesses and the AI + Lighting up Education Solution,” as well as the unveiling “mysteries” of the independent brand “HAGANS” of the Republic of Ghana in Africa.

The conference began with sincere and earnest speeches by Lu Yao, the General Manager of the Overseas Products Department of iFLYTEK, and H.E Dr. Winfred N.O. Hammond, the Ambassador of Ghana to China.

Lu Yao, General Manager of the Overseas Products Department of iFlytek

The Ambassador of Ghana to China, H.E Dr. Winfred N.O. Hammond.

The keynote speech by Mr. You Zhonghai, the founder of Nenggang (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd., was particularly eye-catching. The new international business model he advocated can fully exert the business potential of both China and Ghana and achieve complementarity and mutual benefits, which has been highly recognized by the participating Speakers.

Principal of St. Francis College of Education，Hohoe-Dr. Adwoa Kwegyiriba

You Zhonghai, the founder of Nenggang (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd., Francis Kwesi Hagan, the Founder and CEO of Linktech Global Ltd., Chen Hong’an, the CEO of Zhiyinqing (Jinhua) Technology Co.,Ltd., Wu Jian, the Vice President of Zhiyinqing (Jinhua) Technology Co., Ltd.

The most splendid part of the conference was that the participants witnessed the unveiling ceremony of the Ghanaian brand, HAGANS together. The passionate speech of Mr. Francis Kwesi Hagan, the Founder and CEO of Linktech Global LTD, a Ghanaian Guest Speaker, expressed his ardent expectations for the cooperative Brand.

The unveiling ceremony of the Ghanaian brand HAGANS.

At the end of the meeting, strategic cooperation agreements were signed by multiple organizations and enterprises, solemnly initiating the construction of the global industrial ecology of direct current flexible distribution based on photovoltaic and energy storage technology and industrial chip technology.

Signing ceremony

(Signatories:Zhang Junlong, Vice President of Rongdian Group and General Manager of Southern Supply Chain,

Zeng Zhao, Vice President of the Belt and Road Business Department of the International Marketing Center of Uniview Technologies,

Wu Jingjing, Vice President of Zhejiang Jinxun Digital Technology Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of iFLYTEK,

You Zhonghai, the founder of Nenggang (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd.,

Francis Kwesi Hagan, the Founder and CEO of Linktech Global LTD)

In the future, starting from Jinhua, the supply chain and technical service system for the global market will be gradually advanced. The technology enterprises and organizations in Jinhua will actively respond to China’s “Belt and Road Initiative”, aiming at “exploring the potential of intelligent manufacturing internally and expanding it to the global market externally”, to strive to build the “investment-research-production-sales” model

– DuoNB Team

DuoNB Status Update: 2022 Q2 🚀

DuoNB Alliance is being boostrapped by a small but dedicated group of professionals from a diverse practices. We have entreprenures, veteran product & product managers, senior software architects, networking engineerings, VCs … who’s been working on smart home appliances and systems, connected products, large scale software project, and telco-grade networking technologies.

What are binding us as a community are the DuoPlus Principles. under which connected appliances or products should be built. So that we, as human beings, can build safter, fairer, and better connected products in and around where we live and work.

To begin with our first blog post, it’s fair to highlight a few Q&A from our ecosystem partners and friends,

What are the economic, social and user value implications of implementing DuoNB framework?

Web3 is around the corner, although we are facing challenges. DuoNB framework for making connected products is part of this big trend of our time. Firstly, DuoNB is about to cast her impacts on Layer Zero, namely, the networking layer, of the emerging Web3 Internet. Secondly, any individual makers or startups/companies who’re aspired to reap the benefits as early pioneers of Web3 shall join efforts to make new products and services a reality. To illustrate how DuoNB framework drives product innovation, let’s look at a simple example, Deskme.com, a hot-desk SaaS provider, is facing serious challenges while they’ve been trying to build their China integration and localized servces for China users and customers, specifically,

1. China’s new data security law prohibits cross-boarder transfer of privacy-related and sensitive user (behavior) data

2. China has her own unique mobile app ecosystem, namely the MiniApp as a newer and better generation of mobile app, as compared with iOS or Android’s apps still widely used outside China

3. Companies like Deskme are facing the challenge of localizing their data and business operations if they are about to scale globally.

One solution to the above challenges, which are recurring again and again among many apps providers wishing to scale their business across borders, is to follow design principles put forward by DuoNB framework. Same is true for other countries who are following suite to implement their data security laws but dependant on China’s supply chain for software and hardwares. As a product design framework, DuoNB helps product makers and end users as well to realize the following benefits,

1. Build more secure and privacy-aware connected products, that are data-law compliant to a jurisdiction from day-one;
2. Distributors and re-sellers have more leverage and say on what and how to build a product, since most parts of connected products are released as open source parts, and localized manufacturing is already here with us if we can leverage Internet-of-Production platform such as wikifactory.com
3. More power is re-distributed to reseller and local builders’ side, so that they can take up more end-user responsibilities and thus earn more money from their localized services.

What are the global trends in IoP (Internet of Production) and the opportunities?

Wikifactory as one of the first implementations of IoP and circular economy, are revolutionizing how we design and build products, how we collaborate across borders, and how we re-distribute elements of manufacturing production. Open source hardware and designs, increasingly, become a good entry point for less developed countries and companies who’re seeking royalty free or low-licensing fee intellectural properties to build their products on. Over time, as more manufacturers are adopting IoP, they are acclerating their products’ time-to-market and along the way, improve any designs from the upstream designers or companies.

This phenomenon will continue to roll out very much the same as how Github.com has been revolutionizing how the world is building software products!

What China supply chains of silicons (electronics) can help you drive such new opportunities?

China has developed into a leading manufacturing country over the past few decades and the trend will continue non-stop, regardless current geo-political conflicts between other advanced tech nations. China supply chain on sillicons (the electronics) are re-inventing themselves and re-defining how we build connected products. DuoNB communities at large are a series of chip-makers, silicon makers and software innovators who firmly believe in a future of open collaboration in IoP - Internet of Production. We also advocate fair use of intellectual properties via new capabilities by implementing blockchain tech, so that we can also realize ‘Trustless Trust’ along the supply chain of electronics/ silicons. DuoNB is hosting a complete supply chain of silicons that are ready to support any connected product makers in the world, including those from the US and UK, to create a fairer marketplace for advanced tech makers and brands.

Things we can do together,

1. Any smart home/office networking equipment makers around the world can work with DuoNB community members to secure their supply of both silicon and software for networking equipment. We can formulate ideas on new types of telco products together, for carriers or smart home/office alike.
2. Any smart home products makers or distributors around the world can work with DuoNB community to source innovative products and designs, so that they can work out localized manufacturing and white-label deals, to serve their local markets and customers.
3. Any manufacturing service providers can join DuoNB calls to learn how to leverage the new IoP service model, MaaS - Manufacturing as a Service, to help localize manufacturing industries in their home countries. This is particularly important for African or SEA countries where government officials and entreprenures alike are seeking NEW ways to build their own manufacturing industries.

In summary, IoP trend and the many new tech pioneered and promoted in DuoNB communities can help African and SEA countries to build their own manufacturing capacities at scale, substainable, and forever open for improvement and innovation.

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Soft-launching DuoNB Community 🚀

DuoNB Alliance / 物联技术开放联盟 is being bootstrapped by a small but dedicated group of professionals from a diverse practices. We have entreprenures, veteran product & product managers, senior software architects, networking engineering, VCs … who’s been working on smart home appliances and systems, connected products, large scale software project, and telco-grade networking technologies.

What are binding us as a community are the DuoNB Principles. under which connected appliances or products should be built. So that we, as human beings, can build safter, fairer, and better connected products in and around where we live and work.

To begin with our first blog post, it’s fair to highlight a few Q&A from our ecosystem partners and friends,

What are the economic, social and user value implications of implementing DuoNB framework?

Web3 is around the corner, although we are facing challenges. DuoNB framework for making connected products is part of this big trend of our time. Firstly, DuoNB is about to cast her impacts on Layer Zero, namely, the networking layer, of the emerging Web3 Internet. Secondly, any individual makers or startups/companies who’re aspired to reap the benefits as early pioneers of Web3 shall join efforts to make new products and services a reality. To illustrate how DuoNB framework drives product innovation, let’s look at a simple example, Deskme.com, a hot-desk SaaS provider, is facing serious challenges while they’ve been trying to build their China integration and localized servces for China users and customers, specifically,

1. China’s new data security law prohibits cross-boarder transfer of privacy-related and sensitive user (behavior) data

2. China has her own unique mobile app ecosystem, namely the MiniApp as a newer and better generation of mobile app, as compared with iOS or Android’s apps still widely used outside China

3. Companies like Deskme are facing the challenge of localizing their data and business operations if they are about to scale globally.

One solution to the above challenges, which are recurring again and again among many apps providers wishing to scale their business across borders, is to follow design principles put forward by DuoNB framework. Same is true for other countries who are following suite to implement their data security laws but dependant on China’s supply chain for software and hardwares. As a product design framework, DuoNB helps product makers and end users as well to realize the following benefits,

1. Build more secure and privacy-aware connected products, that are data-law compliant to a jurisdiction from day-one;
2. Distributors and re-sellers have more leverage and say on what and how to build a product, since most parts of connected products are released as open source parts, and localized manufacturing is already here with us if we can leverage Internet-of-Production platform such as wikifactory.com
3. More power is re-distributed to reseller and local builders’ side, so that they can take up more end-user responsibilities and thus earn more money from their localized services.

What are the global trends in IoP (Internet of Production) and the opportunities?

Wikifactory as one of the first implementations of IoP and circular economy, are revolutionizing how we design and build products, how we collaborate across borders, and how we re-distribute elements of manufacturing production. Open source hardware and designs, increasingly, become a good entry point for less developed countries and companies who’re seeking royalty free or low-licensing fee intellectural properties to build their products on. Over time, as more manufacturers are adopting IoP, they are acclerating their products’ time-to-market and along the way, improve any designs from the upstream designers or companies.

This phenomenon will continue to roll out very much the same as how Github.com has been revolutionizing how the world is building software products!

What China supply chains of silicons (electronics) can help you drive such new opportunities?

China has developed into a leading manufacturing country over the past few decades and the trend will continue non-stop, regardless current geo-political conflicts between other advanced tech nations. China supply chain on sillicons (the electronics) are re-inventing themselves and re-defining how we build connected products. DuoNB communities at large are a series of chip-makers, silicon makers and software innovators who firmly believe in a future of open collaboration in IoP - Internet of Production. We also advocate fair use of intellectual properties via new capabilities by implementing blockchain tech, so that we can also realize ‘Trustless Trust’ along the supply chain of electronics/ silicons. DuoNB is hosting a complete supply chain of silicons that are ready to support any connected product makers in the world, including those from the US and UK, to create a fairer marketplace for advanced tech makers and brands.

Things we can do together,

1. Any smart home/office networking equipment makers around the world can work with DuoNB community members to secure their supply of both silicon and software for networking equipment. We can formulate ideas on new types of telco products together, for carriers or smart home/office alike.
2. Any smart home products makers or distributors around the world can work with DuoNB community to source innovative products and designs, so that they can work out localized manufacturing and white-label deals, to serve their local markets and customers.
3. Any manufacturing service providers can join DuoNB calls to learn how to leverage the new IoP service model, MaaS - Manufacturing as a Service, to help localize manufacturing industries in their home countries. This is particularly important for African or SEA countries where government officials and entreprenures alike are seeking NEW ways to build their own manufacturing industries.

In summary, IoP trend and the many new tech pioneered and promoted in DuoNB communities can help African and SEA countries to build their own manufacturing capacities at scale, substainable, and forever open for improvement and innovation.