Jhai growing, Lee letting go

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Jhai growing, Lee letting go

9 September 2008

Lee ThornChairJhai Foundation

350 Townsend St., Ste. 309San Francisco, CA 94107 USAVoice/Fax: [email protected]

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The discussion for today

• Our story

• Where we are going

• What we need

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How we began

We were founded 10 years ago by Lee Thorn, a Vietnam veteran seeking reconciliation

He returned to Laos seeking to help rural villages by listening to local communities

They asked for technology with connectivity (among other things)

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means ‘hearts and minds working together’

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In 1997, Lee returned to his home near Silicon Valley and began a 10 year journey

He started by recruiting world leading volunteer management and technical experts – including software and hardware engineers

The first steps

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He also raised money and partnered with leading organizations

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The first generation Jhai PC emerged…

Off-grid power - 12-volt direct current battery, and the battery is charged by a bicycle-powered generator

Local language - Open Office localized (word processing, spreadsheets, slides and more)

Slow speed (low bandwidth) connectivity – access to the internet through remote relay station via wifi that connected the signal to a phone line over a hill and into

the market town – 9 miles away

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….and better versions have been developed

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Neurosynaptic medical monitoring machine (battery powered)

Jhai Village Server – Linux and/or Windows

Novatium very thin clients

WIFI or cableRemote server running Linux and/or MS applicationss (optional)

Alternative or grid power depending on local conditions

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Energy efficient – all alternative power options can work, lower overall power required

Telemedicine - Neurosynaptic machine monitors and reports respiration, blood pressure, pulse, EKG, and temperature; provides 2 way audio-video with remote doctor, and provides simple patient records to share …all at dial-up speed …

Low cost functionality – VERSION 2.0: 1.5GHtz,1-2GigRAM, flash pendrive or hard drive, running Windows or Linux with $200+/- JhaiPC, JhaiNetworks™ communications suite to foster knowledge sharing even for illiterates

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Let’s get into this a little more - Telemedicine

Telemedicine is a way for villagers to talk and show themselves to a doctor someplace else

And to share their health records, vitals and EKG, and then get a

diagnosis and prescriptions so that they can make an informed

decision on whether or not to go to the nearest hospital.

This can save BIG MONEY as well as get the local health provider PAID

Our solution is also sustainable, cheapest, and most accessible to internet no matter how slow the

internet connection is

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Let’s get into this a little more - ‘Energy efficient’

These 3 computers plus screens plus the rechargeable telemedicine machine run at about 70 watts total.

Your desktop x 3

Runs at 300-600 watts.

This means all the machines in the village can be powered by

a Jhai bike-generator or a solar panel or water or wind

or even oxen going in a circle!

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Let’s get into this a little more - low cost and appropriate

Maybe this doesn’t mean much to you: “1.5GHtz,1GigRAM, flash

pendrive etc etc” Don’t worry. All it means is that the computer is fast, can run either Windows or Linux, as a no-moving parts machine or

just as a normal PC, AND software includes free or low cost

communication suite that even illiterate people can use.

In our way of doing things local entrepreneurs choose what content (think applications like ‘Read, Write & Type’) that they think will bring them money based on what community members told them…and …

All the JhaiPC costs is $188 to $224! The system including training

and long-term support, will cost around $7000 for the entire village

system. This is way cheap, cheaper than all the other systems we

know about.

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Let’s get into this a little more - Jhai Networks ™

Jhai Networks™ communication suite is a way for even illiterate people to communicate.

It is software that allows for peer-to-peer or conference audio-

video communications

While sharing and redlining any kind of application

securely

And even across languages in conferences with up to 300 places ….– just like the UN, except on the internet and cheap

Tamil to English

Urdu to English

And so on …

Mandarin to English

Spanish to EnglishLao to English

Cantonese to English

French to English

Ubuntu to English

Empowering local languages using English

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However, we learned that a technology solution is not enough…

entrepreneurs need to be empowered through training and by letting them design their own, profitable business

the entire village must be engaged

And outsiders like us must commit to never leave

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We have developed a successful model and tested it in Laos

for over 10 years

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Awards and recognition have followed

How do you bring the Web to people who don't have phone lines -- or even electricity? With a level of ingenuity that would have impressed Robinson Crusoe, it turns out

The NY Times reporting on the Jhai PC

What people say about us

“He (Bill Gates) even wondered if it might be possible to make computers for the poor in countries without an electric power grid. The answer is yes, and things are going even further”

The Economist reporting on the Jhai PC

Six international ‘best practices’ awards for ICT work

Award-winning technology

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Lee is now a recognized worldwide ‘thought leader’

“What is a ‘thought leader’?” – Lee and friends … “This is true!” – Fortune Magazine

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A methodology to ensure economic sustainability emerged

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How people in villages can make money from computer stuff

It is Pretty easy …It takes 5 steps

• Find the best local entrepreneur

• Hang out and talk with neighbors

• Teach accounting and facilitate planning

• Teach the technical stuff

• Follow up

Details If the village health provider is an

entrepreneurial type, empower her; if not, find a village entrepreneur to work with her.

Hang out with them in the community for two days meeting people and engaging them in

a dialog about what they want and what you know is possible with ICT (2 days)

Teach accounting and facilitate rigorous,

participatory business planning (3-4 days)

Do this 10 villages at a time and include hands-on training on set up and networking

through the most local technician you can get that can teach.(1-2 days)

Follow up through a facility nearby created by

an entrepreneur (we’ll help) available to 50 or more villages

Jhai has a 90% success rate with SUSTAINABLE ICT-related projects over

10 years

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It might look like this …

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Jhai Systems – 24/7 - Making money from day one

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TIME

Rural PoorImpact

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Development Styles Are Evolving

SOCIAL ENTERPRISE(Jhai)

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Jhai is now in transition and has

adopted a new strategy to GROW

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• Our story


• What we need

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Providing hardware, software and

communication solutions for rural villages

Jhai will remain focused on 2 areas

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2 Ensuring economic sustainability through training

entrepreneurs, business model development and community

engagement

…and we have set 3 goals for the next 6 months

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First, enabling telemedicine for the rural village will be our lead proposition

WHY?

Health of elders and children is

first priorityOf our friends in villages

Jhai’s technology and methodology solves two key needs for

telemedicine – economic sustainability and rugged technology

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Second, we will focus on India first

WHY?

Neurosynaptic will be our technology partner for telemedicine and they are based in India

The Indian government will support

The market potential is HUGE there

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Third, we will transition the leadership

WHY?

We can only grow with dedicated, younger, paid staff

Lee is a visionary but needs operational expertise

The board has been successful providing advice but will need

to shift focus toward fundraising

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Our focus will be on these new projects, with India being critical

Neurosynaptic has invited us to work with them in 1500

rural Indian clinics providing JhaiPCs and sustainable

solutions for telemedicine

Another Indian program has asked to explore a 10,000 village implementation for telemedicine

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Atlantic Philanthropies has asked us to explore telemedicine solutions for

ALL rural clinics and schools in Vietnam. Atlantic Philanthropies must give away all its donor’s

billions in next 10 years or so.

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Our focus will be on these new projects, with India being critical first effort

The Ghana government and private telecom has asked us to demonstrate 100

computers over 10 rural centres where 10 different languages are spoken. This is step

one in a country-wide implementation. The sponsor is THE leading ICT organization in Africa (the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre

for Excellence in ICT) with proposed funding from a Kuwaiti entrepreneur.

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“Hole in the Wall”, a very successful organization in India and Africa, has

asked for 250 Jhai PCs for Indian urban slums

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Jhai needs to build a foundation over the next

six months – then scale up

Most Critical:

1.Hire a CEO and Operations person

2.Revamp board for fundraising

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• Our story


• What we need

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Revenue goals for next year** excludes Philippines, ILFSET/India,Thailand, Laos, Brazil, Congo, S. Africa, China to be conservative

Revenue streams

7-9/08 10-12/08 1-6/09

Donations $51,500 (Ruth seed)

$50,000 (Ghana)$55,000 (JNet-R&D)

Investment $XXX (Indian) (new JhaiPC affiliated company)

$XXX (Indian) (new Jhai Systems franchising company)

Fees for service $500,000 (AP first payment of $3Mil)

Sales (profit only) $44,000 (Neuro1, HoleInWall, AP, small test commercial)

$22,000 (Ghana) $37,000 (AP)

Subtotals $115,500

Total $1,250,000 (est.)

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Our Commitment: Jhai means ‘hearts and minds working together’

Solar powered installation in Lao PDR Jhai’s Commitment

For 10 years poorer people who work with us have made enough money to sustain the programs they envisioned and they own. They cover fixed and running costs, capital goods replacement and any loan repayments themselves. We provide our green ‘best practices’ systems, products, and training - and just-in-time advice and support to them. We never impose. We never run away.

Lee ThornChair

Jhai Systems, Jhai Networks and Jhai FoundationVientiane, Lao PDR and San Francisco, California USA

[email protected]

1 415 420 2870

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