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Bringing eHomemakers ICT tool to Indonesia

Bringing eHomemakers ICT tool to Indonesia. About eHomemakers. Started in 1998 by passion of a single mother Started with small grant from IDRC ECHO tool recognized by UNDP as a tool for poverty eradication Has received many international awards for ECHO tool, including

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Bringing eHomemakers ICT tool to Indonesia

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  1. Bringing eHomemakers ICT tool to Indonesia

  2. About eHomemakers Started in 1998 by passion of a single mother Started with small grant from IDRC ECHO tool recognized by UNDP as a tool for poverty eradication Has received many international awards for ECHO tool, including Ericsson Innovation Award Homebound Women Economic Empowerment ICT Homebound Women Social enterprise network

  3. Implications of Teleworking Home-based Women’s Empowerment Income Generation Social Outsourcing

  4. Why Disadvantaged? Urban Pooor Chronicpoverty Pure economic terms Under educated & Low skill level Isolated Hopeless, low self-esteem, no self confidence No opportunities Low quality of life

  5. eHomemakers ICT Tool=ECHO Integrated collaboration and contact management system in the cloud Enables one person to efficiently coordinate people in diverse locations for group-level social-economic missions A tool for community organizing, sourcing, distributing and information collating.

  6. The application is… NOT a bulk SMS solution Built as a people-centered organizing system Built to serve, help, promote, assist and enhance NPO missions Built for collaboration and innovative usage with any partner

  7. Projects / Tasks Contacts Notifications SMS Sending / Replies Reporting Multilingual text Logs Administration Components in ECHO ECHO

  8. Why use Echo? • Allows you to send MMS at the cost of SMS • The revert/summary functions enable many innovative business uses. • It is a low cost application run by a not-for-profit social enterprise, and your payments will be indirectly helping other non-profits. • Has the widest range of SMS /MMS/email management functions, and has the lowest cost per message.

  9. E.g.Soliciting Replies for Events Conventional With ECHO Type invite message in message box Check off category of invitees Send off SMS to recipients and receive replies (system captures replies) Counts number of attendees Print attendance list • Call contacts per updated list • Each call involves getting through to right person, explaining of event • Receive reverts of attendance • Data-entry attendance in report • Calculate number attending • Print attendance listing

  10. E.G of use Role of ECHO in Salaam Wanita Weavers Customers Lower transaction costs & Faster communication DWMA Handphone to Internet Solution SMS Text Messaging System Salaam Wanita Admin.

  11. Example of success-income making baskets for a single mother with 2 children (one with cerebral palsy)

  12. Value of ECHO SMS Blast companies ECHO Signs a detailed non-profit partnership agreement with you Does not sell or use your databases/lists Knows the importance of data confidentiality/security for non-profits Our integrity and reputation has been kept for 16 years • Make profit by selling your databases of confidential member information • Make profit by spamming them with advertisements • Make profit by selling databases/targeted lists to spammers and database buyers • Minimum bulk purchase of SMS required

  13. Words from the founder

  14. eHomemakers gets APNIC (regional Internet address registry) Information Society Innovation Fund to bring ECHO to Homenet Indonesia http://www.apnic.net/publications/news/2013/2014-isif-asia-grants-recipients-announced-today

  15. Homenet Indonesia is an established NGO which is a chapter of Homenet Southeast Asia (organization to support homebased workers) http://www.homenetseasia.org

  16. Budget breakdown Proposal to APNIC did not include the Indonesian component Cash needed to support =Sending Homenet Indonesia staff to Malaysia for training =Homenet Indonesia admin costs to support ECHO =documents to be translated from English to Bahasa =data migration Etc (RAISED $5,600, FUNDED THROUGH ROTARY CLUB JAKARTA METROPOLITAN) Telco sponsor needed: =Support free SMS for the women until their businesses take off then pay discounted rate =free handphones for women who don’t have phones =Android phones to act as SMS gateways DIGI Malaysia for example had sponsored 30,000 free SMS/month for eHomemakers For 3 years and then discounted rate after that when women could pay LOOKING FOR AN INDONESIAN TELCO SPONSOR

  17. One mode of connection with telco

  18. Another option for connection

  19. Together We Are Stronger

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