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References http://sandbox.bellanet.org/~onno/ http://www.apjii.or.id/onno/
Mailing List [email protected]
Disclaimer .. I am a trained Engineer, not an
economist nor a social scientist I tend to simplify things & may be
wrong Some thought may be too extreme Consider this as an on going research
work
Acknowledgment .. Thank you CERN & IDRC
Thank you to my friends Basuki Suhardiman, Donny BU, Bona, Donny, Adi, Noor etc .. Who _voluntarily_ work hard to help the community.
Basic Prinsiples Consume Produce Supply Driven Demand
Driven Public Private
Community / Mass Education is the key strategic element.
Lots of stories in Indonesia .. Conglomerates economy
collapse .. Leaving US$ billion debt & corrupt
gov’t Informal sector & SME based
economy ICT speeds up transactions &
knowledge sharing
After 10+ Years … 4+ Million Indonesian Internet Users 2500+ WiFi outdoor installations 2000+ CyberCafes 1500+ schools on the Internet 1000+ Community Radio
Not much gov’t funding & support No World Bank, no IMF funding Mostly self-finance
Keywords for Success Education! Education! Education .. Encourage knowledge producer Knowledge Sharing
To Make Things Difficult No Money, Self-Finance .. Sustainable Process Bottom up Community based Development
Some Real Examples
The solution should .. Focus on Self-finance Sustainable
Access (Infrastructure). Applications may run on top of it.
Aim for highest impact at lowest possible overhead if possible self-finance sustainable processes.
Guerrilla Telco Warfare .. Basic Strategies:
Community Education! Education! knowledge transfer, copyleft.
Go for many small but interconnected network.
Self-finance, sustainable independent community based telecommunication infrastructure.
Don’t worry it’ll take 10+ years to see the impact ..
Grass Root Movement
Community Based WiFi + VoIP Infrastructure
Two (2) Main Technologies WiFi – for outdoor usage! VoIP
Main Features “Low Cost”
US$150-200 / WiFi node. US$10-50 / phone line (dep on config) Operating cost US$400/16-60 line/
month Many Open Source
Education is Key!
Comp. Lab. For Street Kids
Source: Donny BU [email protected]
Used Equipments
Children Happy …
We do more .. Give free talks on Internet in schools Currently 1500+ schools on Internet
24.000+ high schools in Indonesia Mostly Self-Finance
Some support Vocational School Director MoE Investment US$2000-US$4000/school 50 cents/student/month – RoI ~1 Year Movement for WiFi City WAN for School in 5 Cities.
We are looking at million Indonesian Future Generation ICT Literate Self-Finance
Cost …. 24 Hour Connected to the Internet Ref: http://sandbox.bellanet.org/~onno/
Neighborhood Net Infrastructure Investment US$80-100/house Operating US$15-30/house/month
VoIP Infrastructure US$25-35/handset vs. US$1000/handset by Telco. Operating US$15-25/month unlimited (including
unlimited long distance calls)
The Big Picture
Knowledge Cycle
Surfing
Publish
Packaging Disseminate
Feed Back
How? … Free distribution in CDROM Free copy of Harddrive ~5Gbyte Join ~100 Internet mailing lists
600 e-mails / day
Publish ~40 Title of Books Give talks, seminars, workshops
3-4 talks / week, 2-3 cities / week.
Tacit Knowledge Sharing Facilitate Generation Local Knowledge Supply Created by Demand
The beauty: No Prior Content / Knowledge Incidentally Create Local
Content/Knowledge Massive Community Education process All self-finance process
Supply CreatedBy Demand
What you can do .. Education! Education! Education ..
Encourage knowledge producer in local lang. Facilitate Knowledge Sharing Replication & Scaling up process through word-
of-mouth / tacit knowledge exchange. Make Sure Stop Gov’t Repressive Actions
Liberate community radios & TV Liberate WiFi bands & VoIP for community
infrastructure. Note that most implementation & operations
may be community based + self-finance
The catch .. Partnership with Informal (sometimes
underground) Visionary Leaders in the country / area.
WARNING: It would be difficult to find one through formal channels.