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Facilitate Fast & Self-propelled: Return To Society

Facilitate Fast & Self-propelled: Return To Society. Onno W. Purbo Onno@indo.net.id A Common Indonesian Sabbatical Leave at IDRC. References. http://sandbox.bellanet.org/~onno/ http://www.apjii.or.id/onno/ Mailing List wifi4d@dgroups.org. Disclaimer.

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Facilitate Fast & Self-propelled: Return To Society

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  1. Facilitate Fast & Self-propelled:Return To Society Onno W. Purbo Onno@indo.net.id A Common Indonesian Sabbatical Leave at IDRC

  2. References • http://sandbox.bellanet.org/~onno/ • http://www.apjii.or.id/onno/ • Mailing List • wifi4d@dgroups.org

  3. 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

  4. 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.

  5. Basic Prinsiples • Consume Produce • Supply Driven Demand Driven • Public Private • Community / Mass Education is the key strategic element.

  6. Indonesia 1993 • Internet Users Few • Cybercafe None • Schools on Internet None • ICT books Few • ICT Magazine Few

  7. After 10+ Years … • 4+ Million Indonesian Internet Users • 2500+ WiFi outdoor installations • 2000+ CyberCafes • 1500+ schools on the Internet • 1000+ Community Radio • 20+ Magazine • Hundreds Books Title • Hundreds Local Authors

  8. Who Done It? • Mostly community based .. • Not much gov’t funding & support • No World Bank, no IMF funding • Mostly self-finance

  9. 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

  10. Some Real Examples

  11. The solution should .. • Aim for highest impact at lowest possible overhead if possible self-finance sustainable processes.

  12. 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 ..

  13. Community Based WiFi + VoIP Infrastructure

  14. Two (2) Main Technologies • WiFi – for outdoor usage! • VoIP

  15. 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

  16. Grass Root Movement

  17. Education is Key!

  18. Comp. Lab. For Street Kids • Source: • Donny BU • dbu@ictwatch.com

  19. Used Equipments

  20. Children Happy …

  21. We do more .. • Run free talks on Internet at schools • Facilitate Open Source Communities • 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 WiFi City WAN for School in 20 Cities. • Million Indonesian Future Generation ICT Literate  Self-Finance

  22. The Big Picture

  23. Knowledge Cycle

  24. How? … • Free distribution in CDROM • Free copy of USB Harddrive ~7Gbyte • 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.

  25. 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

  26. Supply CreatedBy Demand

  27. 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

  28. The catch .. • Partnership with Informal (sometimes underground) Visionary Leaders in the country / area. • WARNING: It would be difficult to find one through formal channels.

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