A model for sustainable broadband penetration in poor rural and peri-urban communities
-
Upload
dwesaadmin -
Category
Technology
-
view
29 -
download
0
description
Transcript of A model for sustainable broadband penetration in poor rural and peri-urban communities
![Page 1: A model for sustainable broadband penetration in poor rural and peri-urban communities](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022060202/559c07201a28aba2188b4848/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
A model for sustainable broadband in poor communities
Prof Alfredo Terzoli
Rhodes and Fort Hare Universities
National Treasury
Pretoria, June 14 2012
![Page 2: A model for sustainable broadband penetration in poor rural and peri-urban communities](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022060202/559c07201a28aba2188b4848/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
2
How can we make possible real & empowering ICT deployment
in marginalized / disadvantaged areas?
The puzzle
![Page 3: A model for sustainable broadband penetration in poor rural and peri-urban communities](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022060202/559c07201a28aba2188b4848/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Why is it not working?
• the cost of ICT infrastructure is too high to be supported only by the resources in marginalized areas
• the applications that are relevant in this context are just a handful and rarely move beyond the proof of concept
• the expertise of standard ICT solution providers is at best inadequate
3
![Page 4: A model for sustainable broadband penetration in poor rural and peri-urban communities](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022060202/559c07201a28aba2188b4848/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
What is needed?
• something that reverses the classic telco equation: the resources to support the local infrastructure have to come from the outside, rather then from the inside
• a way to maximize the utilization of any ICT infrastructure
• real, well organized software production centres, with good current software engineering practices, as well as specialized ICT solutions providers
4
![Page 5: A model for sustainable broadband penetration in poor rural and peri-urban communities](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022060202/559c07201a28aba2188b4848/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
• A broadband island that connects as many Points of Presence as possible (Digital Access Nodes, DANs)
• DANs located in schools but open to the community and running non-proprietary, open source software
• Low cost, thin-client infrastructure (as server maybe a cluster of ‘refurbished’ computers)
• Broadband island connected to the Internet by whatever means possible
• And the cellphones? Great but...
5
Connectivity blueprint
![Page 6: A model for sustainable broadband penetration in poor rural and peri-urban communities](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022060202/559c07201a28aba2188b4848/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
6
![Page 7: A model for sustainable broadband penetration in poor rural and peri-urban communities](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022060202/559c07201a28aba2188b4848/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
a point of presence is used for training
7
![Page 8: A model for sustainable broadband penetration in poor rural and peri-urban communities](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022060202/559c07201a28aba2188b4848/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
8
a point of presence is used for e-services
![Page 9: A model for sustainable broadband penetration in poor rural and peri-urban communities](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022060202/559c07201a28aba2188b4848/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
9
e-commerce can support art and craft
![Page 10: A model for sustainable broadband penetration in poor rural and peri-urban communities](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022060202/559c07201a28aba2188b4848/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
• Applications?
• Software production Centre?
• ICT solution provider?
10
![Page 11: A model for sustainable broadband penetration in poor rural and peri-urban communities](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022060202/559c07201a28aba2188b4848/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
11
• A software house that completes the innovation eco-system built between Rhodes and Fort Hare Universities
• Focused on community-oriented, integrated eServices solutions
• It sees a future in which marginalised, disadvantaged communities are reconnected through practical, co-created ICT software applications and become progressively bigger actors in services and software production.
![Page 12: A model for sustainable broadband penetration in poor rural and peri-urban communities](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022060202/559c07201a28aba2188b4848/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Objectives
• Move software production in ICT4D to an industrial standard, in terms of architecture and quality
• Build a reference implementation for practitioners in ICT4D
• Start a commercial software house that proves through doing that ICT4D can be a space for business
12
![Page 13: A model for sustainable broadband penetration in poor rural and peri-urban communities](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022060202/559c07201a28aba2188b4848/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
TeleWeaver business model
municipality reed house systems DAN
![Page 14: A model for sustainable broadband penetration in poor rural and peri-urban communities](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022060202/559c07201a28aba2188b4848/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
TeleWeaver in a nutshell
• TeleWeaver is an ‘application server’ holding many applications that make sense in the target community
• Each application has a ‘revenue stream’ attached in the form of a pre-agreed contract with an organization that has the need to access the target community
• The revenue stream for each application is generally small, but together the applications will generate a substantial stream
![Page 15: A model for sustainable broadband penetration in poor rural and peri-urban communities](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022060202/559c07201a28aba2188b4848/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
to be more practical...
• An application in TeleWeaver can be used to report births to Home Affairs
• Home Affairs agrees that they will pay a fixed amount per transaction (reporting a single birth) or maybe a monthly fee, independent from the number of transactions
• As soon as a copy of TeleWeaver is licensed and deployed, the contract is activated and Home Affairs pays the holder of the TeleWeaver license (for example, a municipality)
![Page 16: A model for sustainable broadband penetration in poor rural and peri-urban communities](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022060202/559c07201a28aba2188b4848/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
the ‘TeleWeaver dance’
• Step 1: an entity (example: a municipality) picks up the upfront costs and RHS licences TeleWeaver
• Step 2: the entity activates the pre-agreed contracts with organizations that need to access the community where TeleWeaver is deployed (for example, a gov department, a bank, an NGO)
• Step 3: the entity starts receiving a revenue from the installation
![Page 17: A model for sustainable broadband penetration in poor rural and peri-urban communities](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022060202/559c07201a28aba2188b4848/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
game changer! (or what is attractive in RHS proposition)
• TeleWeaver: the entity’s ICT infrastructure moves from a cost centre to an income centre, with the simple effort of sending off the pre-signed contracts that come with the TeleWeaver licence
• RHS offers full turn-key solutions, if required, deploying the Digital Access Node (DAN), the communication link, TeleWeaver, and providing the training needed to activate the DAN
![Page 18: A model for sustainable broadband penetration in poor rural and peri-urban communities](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022060202/559c07201a28aba2188b4848/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
18
![Page 19: A model for sustainable broadband penetration in poor rural and peri-urban communities](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022060202/559c07201a28aba2188b4848/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
local revenue streams anyone?
• Yes, TeleWeaver will activate local streams too, through obvious applications such as e-commerce, resale of prepaid coupons, support for b&bs etc
• Although this streams will be, for a period of time, a small source of revenue, it is an additional source nevertheless. More importantly, it will stimulate local economic activity!
![Page 20: A model for sustainable broadband penetration in poor rural and peri-urban communities](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022060202/559c07201a28aba2188b4848/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
20
![Page 21: A model for sustainable broadband penetration in poor rural and peri-urban communities](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022060202/559c07201a28aba2188b4848/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
UFH
RU
Telkom CoEs
Siyakhula Living Lab
Siyakhula Living Lab Management Unit
Reed House Systems (software house)
1997
1997
2005
2009
2010
The ICTD eco-system for innovation
21
![Page 22: A model for sustainable broadband penetration in poor rural and peri-urban communities](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022060202/559c07201a28aba2188b4848/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
Siyakhula Living Lab
22
![Page 23: A model for sustainable broadband penetration in poor rural and peri-urban communities](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022060202/559c07201a28aba2188b4848/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
23