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Simple locally based network for everyone – who wants
that? TeleBalt Conference
Vilnius 21.-22. Oct
Ilpo [email protected]
Glocal Ltd.www.glocal.fi
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Three (gradually fading) hypes of present IT technology
• Web -hype
• Mobile enthusiasm
• Cry for broad band connections as a self-evident solution to solve the “networking for everyone” question
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Background• Wide area (4500km2) with few
inhabitants (20.000)• High unemployment rate (over 25%)• Rapidly declining population
(~1.8%/year)• Threat of apathy
Combined with• Good telecommunication
infrastructure. • Sitra (the Finnish Foundation of
Research and Development) gave us an opportunity
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Basic assumptions
• Email is a basic application in the local sphere of our “virtual civil society” –(Web browser – global sphere)
• Local virtuality => non-anonymity • Global virtuality => anonymity• Easy to use and administer system• Usable with all kind of connection speeds
(and types)• Stable, safe and high usability
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Solution
• Local intranet system (based on FirstClass® software)
• System of “layman trainers”
• Dense network of free of charge intranet/internet kiosks
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Results• More that 1/3 of population are registered users (aged
10-75)
• About 5000 users (total population about 19000)
• ~2000 different users per day (over 3000/week and ~4000 logins/day)
• Local communication is an essential part of email communication (75/25)
• Increased self-confidence of formerly unemployed persons
• Possibility for democratic participation
• Increased toleration
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Simple solutions are considered dangerous
• User-friendliness and easy-to-use solutions are OK as long as we are talking about end-user perspective
• Simplicity in system administration is another thing – that will endanger the status quo– The resistance of the local “experts”– “Too easy” applications are automatically
considered (by the “experts”) as not suitable for “serious work”
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The curse of the technological determinism
• The vicious circle of upgrades.
• Nerds create new releases for other nerds.
• But what do the great majority (so called ”ordinary users”) needs/wants?
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Lessons
• If we want to create ”everyman´s” Information Society (other than games, porn and gambling via Internet) and narrow off the “digital gap”: – Return to the simple solutions– Concentrate on local level (from local to global)– Learning is more important than bandwith– Great majority of users are technologically
conservative– We need “mid-tech” people as mediators between
high tech people and ordinary people