Digital Development Partnership event Stockholm2016
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Digital Development Partnership event Stockholm2016
| Title | Digital Development Partnership event Stockholm2016 |
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| Place | SIDA |
| Date, Time | 2016/06/28, 0900-1115 |
| Contact Person | Anna Lerner |
| Participants | Doyle Gallegos, Christian Wulff Søndergaard, Belinda Exelby, Liv Marte Nordhaug, Julia Jasinska, Josef Noll, Anna Lerner, Kenneth Wallstedt, Jens Karberg, Anna Lerner, Nicholas Rossman |
| related to Project | Basic Internet |
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Meeting in Stockholm to get feedback on the Digital Development Partnership (DDP) from the World Bank. Addressed amongst others:
GSMA (Nick, Belinda)
- 6 pilot sites in Tanzania on infrastructure economics,
- and upcoming sites in Indonesia
- 4 working areas: coverage/infrastructure economics, affordability (taxation), digital skills ("Internet trainer" in India) and locally relevant content
- GSMA has published http://MobileConnectivityIndex.com
Ericsson (Kenneth)
- managed rural access "less sites than we have thought", require power hungry infrastructures
- mapping population to grid extension, see Ericsson prediction numbers and "ICT & SDGs report". see: https://www.ericsson.com/res/docs/2016/ict-sdg.pdf
- "technology is not expensive", e.g. power more costly than ICT capex
Telenor (Christian)
- operating since 1996 in Bangladesh, biggest company
- "in 15 months in Myanmar we got 15 Mio subscribers", out of them 55% use the Internet on a regular basis
- required worldwide investment of 1.4 Trillion US$ by 2020 for Mobile infrastructures
- costs of usage of a Smartphone: 30% relates to tax
Norad (Liv Marte)
- stimulating the demand
- testing new business models
Nokia (Julia)
- CEO joined Broadband Commission, and drives advocacy
- 6 pilot villages in India, collaborating with the Indian Institute for Technology in Madras, a.o. on last mile connectivity
World Bank (Julia, Doyle)
- Presentation of Digital Development Partnership (DDP) including Internet access for all
- World development report (WDR) was great success
- launch event of DDP in Tanzania
Some points of the discussions
- Energy ladder: light is first, all other services come after (Anna)
- need that ladder for Internet access access
- "what creates attention" - awareness of Internet more required than affordability (Christian)
Related activities/organisations
- Alliance for affordable Internet
- International Finance Corporation (IFC)
- Digital Impact Alliance
