Facilitate Fast & Self-propelled:Return To Society

Onno W. PurboOnno@indo.net.id

A Common Indonesian

References http://sandbox.bellanet.org/~onno/ http://www.apjii.or.id/onno/

Mailing List wifi4d@dgroups.org

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 dbu@ictwatch.com

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.