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Meaningful Broadband Model Fast internet as platform for economic reform
Craig Warren Smith, Chairman, Digital Divide Institute. Nov 20,2012. Bangkok, Escap
www.digitaldivide.org
Developing countries are falling further behind
The cell phone gap is closing but the broadband gap is widening
Two effects:
Internal: Digital Caste System
External: Digital Colonialism
What’s a National Broadband Ecosystem ? MBB is a “broadband ecosystem” in which high‐speed bandwidth travels from
backbone, to “Last Mile,” to devices, to apps to produce desirable impacts on citizens, enterprises, communities and governments.
What is Meaningful Broadband (MBB) ?
MBB closes the Digital Divide by being usable, affordable and empowering to mass markets.
We will use the following table to predict how Indonesia will betransformed by broadband based on a) business as usual (BAU) or based on our model of Meaningful Broadband (MB)
FACTOR (2015)BAU
(Business As Usual)
MB(Meaningful Broadband)
Penetration Rate (age 13+)
GDP Boost
Inequality*
Workforce Development
Microfinance Growth
Productivity Growth
Investments Impacts
R&D Impacts
Impact of Stimulus II
MB offers Asian nations their best chance to: • reverse urbanization,
• reduce climate change,
• lessen religious extremism • lessen gaps between rich and poor,
• further democratization and governance
• create millions of new jobs and entrepreneurs• strengthen traditional cultural values
Indonesian model
Declaration on Meaningful Broadband of April 14, 2011
• BB as necessary condition for Master Plan’s success
• BB as “meta‐infrastructure”
• Demand‐side should be emphasized in ecosystem
• Establish inter‐ministerial and cross‐sector working group under chairmanship of the President
• Establish Working Group as affiliate to Digital Divide Institute
Five Domains of Innovations
IGADD’s Meaningful Broadband agenda has two aspects:
• Meaningful Supply: Complement commercially viable infrastructures with an NBN model that serves as a platform for fulfilling the government’s own social, economic and environmental goals.
• Meaningful Demand: Activate demand for internet uses that empower low‐income consumers and the enterprises and governments which serve them. Begin with “big push” via device/app strategy that activates the academic sector for beta test, app development, et al.
Creating Meaningful Demand
Meta‐Infrastructure
Broadband is an enabler of other infrastructures, e.g. power, transportation, and the “soft infrastructures” of education and health. Broadband not only can lower cost and increase effectiveness of these other infrastructures but it also can interconnect all infrastructures to produce new infrastructure ecosystem
Our four‐part MBR process
MBR 1.0: Vision of the Optimal Role of Broadband for the Nation
MBR 2.0: Costs and Benefits of Broadband for the Nation
MBR 3.0: Roadmap for Meaningful Broadband
MBR 4.0: Working Groups (government, business and academia)
The Proposed Broadband Policy Program (PPP) will support broadband goals of these intergovernmental agencies.
BBP Outreach to Asia’s Intergovernmental Agencies
BPP
DDI’s Regional Agenda in Asia
Exchange best practices in five domains
Academic capacity building re BB policy
Sub‐regional MBB partnerships
Broadband Ethics Initiative
• Join us for lunch at ESCAP on Wednesday
• DDI helps Mekong‐linked nations design a Lower Mekong Broadband Corridor to help preserve the Mekong ecosystem.
Proposed South Asian Coalition for Meaningful Broadband
University of California Berkeley is our major international academic partner
Thank you
