Transcript ppt-return-to-society-11-2003.ppt

Facilitate Fast & Self-propelled:
Return To Society
Onno W. Purbo
[email protected]
A Common Indonesian
References
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http://sandbox.bellanet.org/~onno/
http://www.apjii.or.id/onno/
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Mailing List
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[email protected]
Disclaimer ..
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I am a trained Engineer, not an
economist nor a social scientist
I tend to simplify things & may be
wrong
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Some thought may be too extreme
Consider this as an on going research work
Acknowledgment ..
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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
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Consume
Supply Driven
Public
Produce
Demand Driven
Private
Community / Mass Education is the key
strategic element.
Lots of stories in Indonesia ..
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Conglomerates economy collapse ..
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Leaving US$ billion debt & corrupt gov’t
Informal sector & SME based economy
ICT speeds up transactions &
knowledge sharing
After 10+ Years …
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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
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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 ..
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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 ..
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Basic Strategies:
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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
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Grass Root Movement
Community Based WiFi + VoIP
Infrastructure
Two (2) Main Technologies
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WiFi – for outdoor usage!
VoIP
Main Features
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“Low Cost”
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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
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Source:
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Donny BU
[email protected]
Used Equipments
Children Happy …
We do more ..
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Give free talks on Internet in schools
Currently 1500+ schools on Internet
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Mostly Self-Finance
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24.000+ high schools in Indonesia
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
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Self-Finance
Cost ….
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24 Hour Connected to the Internet
Ref: http://sandbox.bellanet.org/~onno/
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Neighborhood Net Infrastructure
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Investment US$80-100/house
Operating US$15-30/house/month
VoIP Infrastructure
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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
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Packaging
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Feed Back
Surfing
Dissemin
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How? …
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Free distribution in CDROM
Free copy of Harddrive ~5Gbyte
Join ~100 Internet mailing lists
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600 e-mails / day
Publish ~40 Title of Books
Give talks, seminars, workshops
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3-4 talks / week, 2-3 cities / week.
Tacit Knowledge Sharing
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Facilitate Generation Local Knowledge
Supply Created by Demand
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The beauty:
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No Prior Content / Knowledge
Incidentally Create Local Content/Knowledge
Massive Community Education process
All self-finance process
Supply Created
By Demand
What you can do ..
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Education! Education! Education ..
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Make Sure Stop Gov’t Repressive Actions
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Encourage knowledge producer in local lang.
Facilitate Knowledge Sharing
Replication & Scaling up process through word-ofmouth / tacit knowledge exchange.
Liberate community radios & TV
Liberate WiFi bands & VoIP for community
infrastructure.
Note that most implementation & operations
may be community based + self-finance
The catch ..
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Partnership with Informal (sometimes
underground) Visionary Leaders in the
country / area.
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WARNING: It would be difficult to find one
through formal channels.