Flip Chart notes BM:National and Regional

FLIP CHART NOTES

Make sure address both supply and demand side when listing these down.

BM Issues

Demand side

Provide conditions for communities to appropriate ICTs and create contextual uses by providing basic ICTs as a public good.
Consumers – aggregate public /private citizenship / commerce demand. Learn from private sector “consumers” (like banks, ISP, taxi companies, etc.) who by service and lay private cable networks. How do they select sites? Do an inventory of these.

Supply side

Public infrastructures plus leverage commercial infrastructure creatively for social and development purposes
A neutral technical framework open to all possibilities to encourage wide access at reduced costs
Biz model based on universal access principles
Push on including connectivity among services guaranteed by governments (the same as basic telephony in some countries)
Municipal – transparency in “rights of org” and management of public thoroughfare. Educate “municipal and metropolitan network” actors on competitive advantage of fibre to curb… [note: card written this way]
International cable – open access network advocacy

BM Strategies

Supply side

Local authorities to supply packets just like they provide roads.
Provide basic ICT as a public good.
Partnership between national electricity agencies, national operators, telecome offices and NGOs to develop open access model.
Regard access to infrastructure as basic utility and as a human right.
Create suitable enabling conditions to promote access and increase usage of ICT infrastructure
Think globally, act locally
Content and access – what is the chicken/egg relationship between demand (either economic or political) for universal high-speed access and locally relevant (culturally and linguistically) content? Does the way we answer this question impact on how the policy argument for service delivery frameworks comes out?