How To:WiFi, VoIP & OpenSource

Onno W. PurboOnno@indo.net.id

Sabbatical Leave at IDRC

Acknowledgment .. Thank you UNDP & IDRC

Thank you to my friends Basuki Suhardiman, Donny BU, Bona, Donny, Adi, Noor etc .. Who _voluntarily_ work hard to help the community.

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

Mailing List wifi4d@dgroups.org

My current status A Common Indonesian People Not a donor agency Not a government agency Sabbatical Leave at IDRC Used to be Jobless

Knowledge & Friends are my only asset.

Simple Vision .. To see Indonesian Knowledge

Based Society

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

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”

Who Done It? Mostly community based. It is A PEOPLE’S MOVEMENT

Not A Project Not much gov’t funding & support Mostly self-finance No World Bank, no IMF funding

FUNDING is BAD for People’s Movement

Basic Strategies .. Consumer Producer Supply driven Demand driven Operator Based Community

Based

Rely heavily on People’s Power.

Community Based WiFi + VoIP Infrastructure

Major Technologies WiFi – for outdoor usage! VoIP Neighborhood Network Open Source Development

Platform

OutdoorWiFi

VoIP

NeighborhoodNetwork

Open Source Development Platform http://groups.or.id

Story Behind Open Source Development Platform Long time - Linux Community at

linux-admin@linux.or.id. Sept’03 – Richard Fuchs, Nancy Smyth &

Onno Purbo discussed Dev. Platform. Oct’03 – interact with Indonesian ICT

activities via e-mail & collect donation. Nov’03 – the first Pentium III server

deployed (cost US$120). Mission Mailing list Server.

Dec’03 – 1200+ mailing lists, 2nd server deployed.

Stories Behind The Screen .. “Jihad” for

Community Based ICT Infrastructure

Low Cost & User Friendly Equipments From People By People For People

Demand Creation! Efficiently Disseminate Knowledge Share Tacit / Implicit Knowledge

Example of Tactical Actions Publish CDROM Publish ~40 Title of Books Give talks, seminars, workshops

3-4 talks / week, 2-3 cities / week. Join ~100 Internet mailing lists

600 e-mails / day

Web Share http://sandbox.bellanet.org/~onno/ http://www.bogor.net/idkf/ http://onno.vlsm.org

Discussion Platform http://groups.or.id

Share Disk

Publish ~40 Books ..

The Big Picture INFORMAL Education is the

KEY Knowledge is Good For People’s

Movement

Self-finance process Funding is Bad For People’s

Movement

Knowledge Cycle

Surfing

Publish

Packaging Disseminate

Feed Back

Supply CreatedBy Demand

The Catch … You’ll need “Local Informal Leader”

The one who Has the vision Knows the way Shows the way Goes the way

It’s not easy to find one …..

Thank You Knowledge is power, Share It, It’ll

Multiply. You‘ll see the _real_ power of Knowledge.

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

Mailing List wifi4d@dgroups.org