Untuk memaparkan model financial yang membawa Meaningful Broadband Report ke jutaan sosio-ekonomi rendah di Indonesia, Investor Group Against Digital Divide (IGADD) menyelenggarakan sebuah forum bagi segenap pimpinan perusahaan, pemerintah, sector financial, dan akademisi, yang menjadi acuan rekomendasi bagi penyusunan kebijakan investasi broadband. Kegiatan ini adalah tindak lanjut dari mandat yang diterima IGADD dari Menteri Komunikasi dan Informatika M. Nuh, untuk mengembangkan konsep makroekonomi demi menciptakan ekosistem broadband yang mampu mengakses dan memberdayakan segenap penduduk Indonesia. Kegiatan ini terselenggara berkat kolaborasi dengan Masyarakat Telematika Indonesia (MASTEL) dan di dukung oleh Nokia Siemens Network.

Three decades ago, a frustrated young filmmaker named George Lucas, freshly graduated from UCLA’s film school, wanted to create an alternative to the established genre of action films coming out of Hollywood. Unable to find a compelling plot line, he picked up a copy of a book by the mythologist Joseph Campbell, Hero with a Thousand Faces.  It was about the Heroes’ Quest, common to many spiritual traditions, in which youth would go out into the world to take on the forces of evil.

12 steps towards the establishment of Meaningful Broadband Investment Policies in emerging-market nations.

1. INTRODUCTION: THE SECOND COMING OF MOBILE BROADBAND

According to Goldman Sachs, the major source of investments in emerging markets has been for cell phones. Now that half of humanity has them, industry coalitions have converged to achieve ubiquitous penetration in every nation as well as to encourage cell phone users to upgrade to smart mobile devices. But not the first time those commercial forces have embraced such as trend. A cautionary tale comes from Europe, less then a decade ago, when a “telecoms bust” offers lessons for today.  In 2001, the European corporations and government officials conspired to elicit a big push in the embrace of mobile broadband applications by the public.