1. World Telecommunication/ICT Development
Report 2010
MONITORING THE WSIS TARGETS A mid-term review
The following quotes are from the Foreword of the above report:
“As this report shows, tremendous progress
has been made over the past decade, with
close to five billion mobile cellular
subscriptions worldwide at the end of 2010,
and almost two billion people throughout the
world now having access to the Internet.”
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2. “But there is still a vast amount of work to
be done. In particular, we need to bring
affordable fast broadband access within
reach of the great majority of the world’s
people — noting today that three quarters
of the world’s inhabitants still have no
access to the Internet at all. So what we
need is to see a rapid and equitable spread
of broadband networks matching the
extraordinary growth of mobile cellular
networks over the past decade.”
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3. “The key – as this report acknowledges –
will be in recognizing that broadband
networks deliver benefits right across
society, and can quickly pay for
themselves in terms of the savings gained
through the more efficient provision of
essential services such as healthcare,
education, power, water, transportation
and e-government.”
End of Quotes
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4. Broadband is the great infrastructure
challenge of the early 21st century.
Like electricity a century ago, broadband is a
foundation for economic growth, job creation,
global competitiveness and a better way of life. It
is enabling entire new industries and unlocking
vast new possibilities for existing ones. It is
changing how we educate children, deliver health
care, manage energy, ensure public safety, engage
government, and access, organize and
disseminate knowledge.
***From the “Executive Summary of
“Connecting America : The National Broadband Plan,” Mar 2010

5. Closing the Digital Divide:
Inclusion of Rural/Remote Communities
William T Torres, PhD
National Academy of Science and Technology

6. Talking Points
• What is the Digital Divide?
o Broadband Connectivity
o Global perspective
o Philippine perspective
• Closing the Digital Divide
o Include Remote Communities!
• Strategic Action Plan

11. Asia’s broadband – markets ranked
by household penetration – 2009
Market ranking | Penetration range | (as proportion of all households) |
Market (household penetration) |
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High | >50% |
South Korea (85%) | Singapore (82%) | Hong Kong (80%) | Macau (72%) |
Taiwan (64%) | Japan (54%) |
Medium | 2-40% |
Malaysia (21%) | China (20%) | Brunei (18%) | Maldives (15%) |
Kazakhstan (15%) | Vietnam (12%) | Philippines (10%) | Thailand (8%) |
Georgia (4%) |
Low | 0-2% |
Azerbaijan (2%) | India (2%) | Indonesia (1%) | + 18 other countries in Asia|
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Source: BuddeComm estimates
http://www.reportlinker.com/p0170440/Asian-Broadband-Market.html#ixzz1H6Y9fBlx

12. Asia-Pacific Broadband
• Penetration
• Speed Philippine broadband
compared with
• Price
Asia-Pacific countries?

13. Philippine broadband: typically 256 kbps, no or small CIR for uplink.

15. Philippine broadband connections per 100 persons: 1.2 in 2007, 3.4 in 2008
(EIU IT Competitive Index 2008)

16. Can we close the Broadband Connectivity Gap?
• Developing and under-developed countries will
not be able to catch up with the developed
countries if we make comparisons:
o based on “individual ratio”
o based on “household ratio”
• But if we use a different measurement, I believe
we can!
o Use “barangay ratio”
(This means number of barangays with broadband
connectivity per 100 barangays.)

17. Closing the Digital Divide
• Include the Rural Communities!
o Prioritize remote areas that cannot be reached by
telcos in the foreseeable future
• Adopt a “Shared Broadband Connectivity”
scheme
o Develop special “pro-poor Value-Added Services”
• Offer mobile cellular phone services and
Internet access together
• Adopt a “Social Entrepreneurship” scheme

18. Intel’s Rural Connectivity Platform

20. GSM antenna
connecting
mobile phones
Link
antenna
connect to
TAP
Barangay Access Point Antennas
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21. What are to be set up?
• Barangay Access Point (BAP)
• Telco Access Point (TAP)
ICT infrastructure
• Broadband connectivity
between TAP and BAPs
• Mobile Telephony
• Voice over IP Services
• Internet and Web Services
• Barangay-resident entrepreneur Owner-Operator
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22. Business Model (1)
•The Barangay Access Point (BAP) is owned and set up
by a barangay-resident entrepreneur.
•The Telco will set up a Telco Access Point (TAP) at its
cell site/tower. (Telco owns the TAP which can connect
to many BAPs.)
•The TAP-BAP broadband IP connection is subscribed
from the Telco and paid for by the barangay
entrepreneur.
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23. Business Model (2)
•The barangay-resident entrepreneur operates the
mobile phone and Internet cafe services as owner.
Income is earned from many sources.
•On-line Value-Added Services (VAS) will be provided
by many third parties.
•A private organization will help bring about this
“social entrepreneurship” initiative.
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24. Thank you for your attention today.
THANK YOU, IN ADVANCE, FOR YOUR
ATTENTION IN THE NEAR FUTURE!