Our policies and alliances bring broadband meaningfully to the “forgotten five billion.”
Media and Events
Media is one of the drivers of Meaningful Broadband. Normally, federations of businesses and chambers of commerce advocate for broadband. In our case, we rely on the most intelligent and influential commentators in print media, including daily newspapers and magazines. In SE Asia’s poor countries, the blogosphere is small and few blogs get enough traffic to have real influence. Luckily our two countries where we are now focused have vibrant, diverse and open print media, both in English and in the vernacular press. Over the past few years, DDI has produced reports on Meaningful Broadband and then released them at press conferences. As a result many articles on Meaningful Broadband have appeared and gradually the politicians, ICT stakeholders, investors and influential citizens began to take notice. This section presents press articles, links and key publications.
Press
Here are some recent articles in Thai and Indonesian press about Meaningful Broadband and related topics.
Sites Worth Watching
There are 2.3 billion web references to “digital divide†that show up on Google, by our most recent count. Here are the best links and some of the worst.
New & Gossip This Week
Archive of Brief Commentaries
August 23, 2012 Facebook’s plummeting market value and sinking user base leads us to only one conclusion: To kindly ask Chairman Mark Zukerberg, to please take off his hoodie, fly to Asia, put on a suit and tie and cut deals with Asian governments. Please tie Facebook’s future to economic development in Asia. Find a way [...]
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Colombo, Sri Lanka: Last week at a UNESCAP seminar held here, several nations surrounding India each signaled their interest to join a DDI-led South Asian coalition for Meaningful Broadband. Though politics may divide these nations, they are united in their common interest in bringing broadband quickly and meaningfully to their mass consumers and governments. The strategy is [...]
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Achieving “Political Will” : The factor that most keeps citizens from receiving the benefits of the internet is not what you’d imagine – not lack of investment capital, not corruption, not weak infrastructure. That stuff is fixable or can be circumvented. A deeper problem is that most governments are led by officials who lack political will to implement their own roadmaps for bringing broadband to the masses. Read More |
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