internet for all, dream or reality? jean-marie blanchard business development director itu high...
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All rights reserved © 2003, Alcatel ITU High Level Dialogue Internet will never bridge the “Divide”, if …....merely duplicating industrialized world usage & applications Content relevancy...? Bandwidth requirement…? Investment capability…? Market size…? Worldwide Browsing Tele-medicine & education Global e-Commerce, …. 3 %…? Scenario 1 : “Niche Market” Internet PenetrationTRANSCRIPT
Internet for all, dream or reality?
Jean-Marie BlanchardBusiness Development Director
ITU High Level DialogueWSIS 2003, Geneva December 9th.
Opportunities for All: Bridging the Digital Gap
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ICT DiffusionCritical Success Factors
Affordability& Accessibility
Initiatives& Policy
Adequacy& Relevancy
Awareness& Expertise
Services
Cost
Governments
Populations
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Internet will never bridge the “Divide”, if ….
...merely duplicating industrialized world usage & applications
Content relevancy...?Bandwidth requirement…?Investment capability…?Market size…?
• Worldwide Browsing• Tele-medicine & education• Global e-Commerce, ….
3 %…?
Scenario 1 : “Niche Market”Internet
Penetration
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INTERNET, as Public Utility
Internet can leapfrog development, only if ...
Internet is seen as a prime Communication Tool
offering useful end-user services
based on local contentvia Community Access
3 % ...?
30 %..?
Internet Penetration
Scenario 2 : “Mass Market”
… to Reinvent Internet Usage !
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Neighborhood End-User Servicesvia Community Access
Health Care…. Education….Food and Logistic… Sales activities ...Communication….Information
Nurses
Doctors
Health Centers Clinics
Hospitals
Citizens
CommunesAdministrations
Communities
Farmers
CooperativesStores
Weather Forecast
Business people
Handcraft
FishermenTeachers
ResidentialLibrari
esSchoolsUniversities
Research Centers
Banks
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A “virtual” market placeProfessional Tool to manage Food price on real time
The cost of the service is quickly paid backby the increase of producers’ margins
Price consultation by small producers
Internet
WAP platfor
m
Price Web Site
Price collection on town’s markets
Price consultation
by traders
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Leveraging Pediatrician Services
Sick childrenfor Medical
Visit(100 per month)
Alerts
Weight Data
1500 «subscribed» Children
Internet
Weight Collection& Alerts
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Use standard widespread technologies in innovative arrangements
Access Network Technologies
Fixed or Mobile Wireline or Wireless Narrowband or Broadband Voice or Data
IP/@ADSLB-WLL
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How to bridge the “Divide”?…. From now!
Local experiments
Pilot projects
Large deployments
Experiment …. and replicate
… encourage initiatives
… seed money
… attract privateand public funding
Economic & social model
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ICT, as a communication tool…enabling local development
Trans parent Market Place
Time &
Expense saving
Job creation
PrivateFunding
Economic Development
PublicFundingGovernance
Education
Healthcare
Rural stability
Social Development
Poverty
Local development
Needs for Information
@as most affordable communication
infrastructure
Demand for Telecom Services
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