Flip Chart notes Tools:Infrastructure

From ApcAccess

Issues

• IF access – regulation on what you can to – no VOIP – and this is a key for sustainability
• Exclusivity of spectrum – even if no service/coverage exists
• Creative power generation solutions – power cards, yoyo etc.
• Base station maintenance in rural areas – are there opportunities (or not) to open other services where they exist
• Mobile technology challenge – openness of open source, legal frameworks pricing structure, security and privacy, human rights,
• Electricity service providing internet – issues and research on models
• Need for shared and re-purposing of infrastructure
• Private sector manufacturer collaboration for homogenization
• Any ICTs that is a renewable energy solution
• How do you work on all these things at the same time – getting energy, and internet into my small town if they don’t exist?
• Looking at more local level intervention might be easier – like at municipal level

Strategies

• start the satellite for development movement
• integration of regulation in rural areas
• collaboration – training – free network, information for action
• develop a way to develop a mesh network with cell phones – overcome lack of open software and hardware too