Indonesia Group Against Digital Divide (IGADD), an affiliate of Digital Divide Institute aims to achieve the "meaningful broadband" in a way that will produce a more equitable and environmentally balanced national economy. This model works through domestic and internantional partners to formulate innovations in six domains --public-policy, regulation, management, technology, finance and ethics. These innovations do not aim at deployment in Indonesia alone but contributes to the worldwide movement to "close the Digital Divide". Our model is not a mere "policy document" which we turn over to government in hopes that they will put it into action. Rather, it is a four part process that moves from thought to action, engaging all sectors of society with the help of a citizen Brain Trust.
The process has four parts. It begins with a framework (Meaningful Broadband Report 1.0, MBR 1.0), and then defines optimal economic benefit to Thailand (MBR 2.0), specific recommendations for government, business, and academia to achieve the optimal broadband deployment in Indonesia (MBR 3.0). Finally it will formulate cross-sector working groups (MBR 4.0) to achieve the innovations needed to create "meaningful broadband ecosystems" that fulfill the transformational potential for the nation. Meaningwhile IGADD contributes to the formulation of best practices (MBR 5.0) which will bring these benefits to other developing coutries in ASEAN, in Asia, and the World.
News and Update
16-04-2010 17:37:21
Two Scenarios Towards 2015
Craig Warren Smith, introduces two scenarios for Thailand's economy in 2015: one without Meaningful Broadband and one with it. The two scenarios explain the urgent need for immediate deployment of new "broadband ecosystems" that close the Digital Divide. In the first scenario, without coherent...
09-04-2010 17:17:32
The Stakeholders
If market-building activity is to penetrate rural areas, certain challenges must be addressed in each of the stakeholder groups who may be involved in wireless market-building in Asia. In each major emerging market of Asia, DigitalDivide.org invites stakeholders in these categories to converge...
09-04-2010 17:15:48
The New Wireless Alliances
Up until 2002, neither business nor government elites had incentives to close the Digital Divide. But Asia's wireless revolution turned that reality upside down. Powerful supply chains are rushing towards the bottom of the market, hoping to get the mass of citizens locked into their cellular...
09-04-2010 17:11:54
The Governmental Response
At first politicians were clueless. What did they know about turning entire countries into "information societies?". Soon, reformers saw "closing the Digital Divide" as a way to undermine the power of entrenched elites in government bureaus who had restrained the spread of new markets into the...