Telecommunications Innovation and The Village Telco
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A presentation at the University of the Western Cape on why affordability in telecommunications is so important and about a project called the Village Telco which is aimed at driving down the cost of access.
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- 1. Telecommunications Innovation, and The Village Telco UWC 1 March 2010 Steve Song Telecommunications Fellow Shuttleworth Foundation email: steve.song@shuttleworthfoundation.org blog: http://manypossibilities.net skype: steve_l_song twitter: stevesong
- 2. http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&met=it_net_user_p2&idim=country:KEN:ZAF:ZWE:MYS:EGY:TUN
- 4. http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTIC4D/Resources/5870635-1242066347456/IC4D_2009_Overview.pdf
- 6. For networks, more isn't Quantityis ...more just more... changes different everything qualitatively
- 7. The Birthday Paradox 5 nodes s 10 co nnection 10 nodes s 45 connection
- 9. Communication Networks 12 Efficiencies Innovation
- 10. n enablng innovation o t of os a very low c “You need n , r ig ht? If thin gs expe rimentatio w ill ive to try people a re expens rying them a nd r om t h old back f their time trying d all t hey’ll spen st o f not to fai l. If the co d falls though, an exper imentation he n preci pitously, t I mean falls f t im e l sp end a lot o people wil d instead o f n ot g, a n ex perimentin comes to f a il oal be fai ling, the g ar n s o m e t h in g to l e in formatively ried.” h ings you t from the t http://www.cbc.ca/spark/2009/11/full-interview-clay-shirky/
- 12. The average Kenyan spends more than 50% of their disposable income on mobile services.
- 13. 1. Tinkering is the new inventing
- 14. “Economic growth occurs whenever people take resources and rearrange them in ways that are more valuable. A useful metaphor for production in an economy comes from the kitchen. To create valuable final products, we mix inexpensive ingredients together according to a recipe.” - Paul Romer http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/EconomicGrowth.html
- 16. What would happen if everyone had the freedom to tinker and adapt their telephone networks?
- 17. 2. Emergence is the new order
- 19. ... to a more organic, living metaphor
- 20. Telephone Internet Infrastructure Infrastructure
- 21. What would happen if we could deploy telephone networks more like Internet networks?
- 22. 3. Quantity is the new quality
- 24. Google's Search Servers Lots of inexpensive commodity technology outperforms expensive custom made servers.
- 25. What would happen if telephone infrastructure were so cheap anyone could deploy it?
- 26. 4. Atoms are the new bits
- 29. The Cantenna
- 30. What would happen if we could design our own telecom infrastructure?
- 31. paradigm shift
- 34. expensive, locked down telecoms in Africa + cheap, tinkerable, broadband technology = opportunity
- 35. Village telco workshop June 2008
- 37. OpenWRT – A linux distribution for embedded devices Asterisk – a telephony development toolkit Afrimesh – mesh management and mapping tool A2Billing – an Open Source billing system for Asterisk
- 38. Elektra Rael Lissoos David Rowe
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- 43. Steve Song Telecommunications Fellow Shuttleworth Foundation email: steve.song@shuttleworthfoundation.org blog: http://manypossibilities.net skype: steve_l_song twitter: stevesong