Bridging the Connectivity Divide from an Applications Perspective Experiences, Challenges, Opportunities Bill Thies Microsoft Research India COMSNETS 2011.

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Bridging the Connectivity Divide from an Applications Perspective Experiences, Challenges, Opportunities Bill Thies Microsoft Research India COMSNETS 2011

TEK: Browsing the Web via Widely deployed with moderate impact –10,000 searches from 500 users in 40 countries –Enabled first Web access for Solomon Islands Lessons learned –Beware of technology inflection points (  webmail) –Web is missing locally-relevant content user ISP World Wide Web TEK Server with Saman Amarasinghe, Libby Levison, and many contributors from MIT

Enabling User-Generated Content in Rural Areas Approach: Interactive Voice Portals Recent milestones: –15,000 calls and 450 published reports since Feb 2010 –Anecdotal impact on the political process Potential to create rich, scalable audio communities Citizen Journalist in Chhattisgarh –“Press 1 to record, or 2 to playback” –Posts available via Web and phone First instantiation: CGNet Swara: A portal for citizen news journalism

Opportunities and Challenges Opportunities –Leverage entertainment –Leverage peer-to-peer –Leverage humans Mobile video sharing network Courtesy Thomas Smyth Challenges –Manage metered bandwidth –Find killer apps

Revenue-generating opportunities –Virtual tourism –Remote shopping –Evidence-based philanthropy Second Life “Third World” Can Streaming Video Enable Cash Flow into Rural Areas? with Kapil Vaswani, Sriram Rajamani, B. Ashok