1. Facilitate Fast & Self-propelled: Return To Society Onno W. Purbo Onno@indo.net.id A Common Indonesian Sabbatical Leave at IDRC

2. References http://sandbox.bellanet.org/~onno/ http://www.apjii.or.id/onno/ Mailing List wifi4d@yahoogroups.com

3. Disclaimer.. I am a trained Engineer, not an economist nor a social scientist I tend to simplify things & may be wrong Some thought may be too extreme Consider this as an on going research work

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

5. Basic Prinsiples Consume  Produce Supply Driven  Demand Driven Public  Private Community / Mass Education is the key strategic element.

6. Indonesia 1993 Internet UsersFew CybercafeNone Schools on InternetNone ICT booksFew ICT MagazineFew

7. 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

8. Who Done It? Mostly community based.. Not much gov’t funding & support No World Bank, no IMF funding Mostly self-finance

9. Keywords for Success Education! Education! Education.. Encourage knowledge producer Knowledge Sharing To Make Things Difficult No Money, Self-Finance.. Sustainable Process Bottom up Community based Development

10. Some Real Examples

11. The solution should.. Aim for highest impact at lowest possible overhead if possible self- finance sustainable processes.

12. Guerrilla Telco Warfare.. Basic Strategies: Community Education! Education! knowledge transfer, copyleft. Go for many small but interconnected network. Self-finance, sustainable  independent community based telecommunication infrastructure. Don’t worry it’ll take 10+ years to see the impact..

13. Community Based WiFi + VoIP Infrastructure

14. Two (2) Main Technologies WiFi – for outdoor usage! VoIP

15. Main Features “Low Cost” US$150-200 / WiFi node. US$10-50 / phone line (dep on config) Operating cost US$400/16-60 line/ month Many Open Source

16. Grass Root Movement

17. Education is Key!

18. Comp. Lab. For Street Kids Source: Donny BU dbu@ictwatch.com

19. Used Equipments

20. Children Happy …

21. We do more.. Run free talks on Internet at schools Facilitate Open Source Communities Currently 1500+ schools on Internet 24.000+ high schools in Indonesia Mostly Self-Finance Some support Vocational School Director MoE Investment US$2000-US$4000/school 50 cents/student/month – RoI ~1 Year Movement WiFi City WAN for School in 20 Cities. Million Indonesian Future Generation ICT Literate  Self-Finance

22. The Big Picture

23. Knowledge Cycle

24. How? … Free distribution in CDROM Free copy of USB Harddrive ~7Gbyte Join 100+ Internet mailing lists 600 e-mails / day Publish 40+ Title of Books Give talks, seminars, workshops 3-4 talks / week, 2-3 cities / week.

25. Tacit Knowledge Sharing Facilitate Generation Local Knowledge Supply Created by Demand The beauty: No Prior Content / Knowledge Incidentally Create Local Content/Knowledge Massive Community Education process All self-finance process

26. Supply Created By Demand

27. What you can do.. Education! Education! Education.. Encourage knowledge producer in local lang. Facilitate Knowledge Sharing Replication & Scaling up process through word-of- mouth / tacit knowledge exchange. Make Sure Stop Gov’t Repressive Actions Liberate community radios & TV Liberate WiFi bands & VoIP for community infrastructure. Note that most implementation & operations may be community based + self-finance

28. The catch.. Partnership with Informal (sometimes underground) Visionary Leaders in the country / area. WARNING: It would be difficult to find one through formal channels.