Presentation from ICT4Agriculture: innovation and the 'last mile' - an event held by the Humanitarian Centre and ARM as part of the Global Food Futures Year and the "ICT4 . . ." series.
From the origin to the future of Open Source model and business
Harsha Liyanage: Sarvodaya Fusion
1. Mobile 4D: a journey from a failure
to a success
Harsha Liyanage, Phd, MBA
Managing Director, (Sarvodaya-Fusion, Sri Lanka),
Principal consultant, (eNovation4D, UK)
www.fusion.lk
email: harsha@enovation4d.co.uk
Cambridge
20th May 2014
eNovation4D
2. Mission : e-Empowerment of communities
Capacity building>>
ICT education and skills
Accessibility >>
Telecentres, mobile, Smart-
Phones
Applications>> Fusion
Education, FarmerNet
Economic
sustenance of
Community +
partners +
Fusion
Social bottom line Economic bottom line
Sarvodaya
15,000 communities
50 year old national NGO
SEEDS
3000 village micro-enterprises
US$31mn operation
ICTA (Gvt)
620 telecentres
Corporates &
Donors
Building partnerships
to leverage impact
3. (Note: environmental impact is not sufficiently monitored in current analysis)
(community = target market)(or programme)
(Innovation 4SD: Innovation for sustainable development)
Innovation 4SD = product + social impact + community acceptance
Telecentres Mobile Android
1997 2004 2007 2009 2011
6. eNovation4D
Failure
Prototype tested with 9 farmer
communities over 2 year period
Social acceptance Less than 7% repeat farmers out
of 4500 outreach in 2 years
Technology frontier Failed the software update efforts
Business model frontier Failed to define collaboration
models
In order to build a sustainable social enterprise product it needed
to build a critical mass of 80,000 users in 3 years
7. Android Smartphones 4D
SmartVillage project
http://fusionsmartvillage.blogspot.com/
» Shared Ownership
models (community vs
telecentre)
» Development
applications
» Education
» Micro-enterprise
promotion
» Apps vs Social
networking
Project started in 2011 Feb.
Donor partners – Tag ID and Google
eNovation4D
8. Shared ownership of
Android
Smart Devices
(Smart Phones & Tabs)
Telecentre
Hub
Case study: Inforgate telecentre, Kantale, Sri Lanka.
Awareness
Accessibility
Education
• ICT
• Social Media
eNovation4D
11. Mostly Used Apps
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
F3 - NAT04
F3 - NAT03
F2 - NAT05
F2 - NAT02
F1 - NAT05
F1 - NAT04
F1 - KAN03
F1 - KAN04
F1 - KAN02
F1 - KAN01
F1 - NAT02
13. eNovation4D
eNovation4D Ltd. Registered company in England & Wales UK.
Company registration no: 07600230
Serving Europe, Africa
& Asia
Clients:
• CTA
• UNCTAD
• CABI
• Tech4trade
• IDRC
• USAIDTelcos we have experience with:
• MTN & TIGO, Rwanda
• Grameen Phone, Bangladesh
• Dialog Axiata, Sri Lanka
Consultant s for ICT4D & Mobile for Development
Social Innovation
Social Impact
Sustainability
Expert
Knowledge
Countries we work:
• UK
• Netherlands
• (Geneva) Switzerland
• Rwanda
• Ghana
• Bangladesh
• Sri Lanka
• 20 Consultants
•University of London
(ICT4D Collective)
• University of
Manchester
• BIID, Bangladesh
Network of experts &
institutions