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Partners

Investor Group Against Digital Divide in Indonesia works with partners to achieve the innovations needed to close Digital Divide. Each partner has a specific role in the coalition, as indicated below:

Founding Partners

DigitalDivide.Org
A web site and nonprofit corporation founded by Craig Warren Smith, which initiated IGADD and established its framework. IGADD is its flagship program.

The Habibie Center
This public-policy research institute pursues reforms for the Republic of Indonesia. Its Institute for the Democratization and Socialization of Technology serves as the Indonesian secretariat for IGADD.

Institut Teknologi Bandung
The leading technology university in Indonesia addresses outreach to higher education as well as rural technology perspectives for IGADD.

Supporting Partners

Department of Communications and Informatics, Republic of Indonesia
Referred to locally as Depkominfo, it sets policy on digital divide issues for the Republic of Indonesia, includes the telecommunications regulatory agency and serves as secretariat for Detiknas.
Forum Rektor Indonesia
Rector Forum of Indonesian Universities, through which IGADD's outreach to academic sector is facilitated.
Mastel
This is the government-linked Indonesian telecommunications industry association with 400 members. Closing the Digital Divide is one of is primary objectives.

Operational Partner

Nokia Siemens Networks
A thought leader on the formulation of broadband ecosystems in emerging markets, is assisting IGADD economic and technological modeling for emerging markets and helping IGADD gain access to Indonesian telecommunications operators.

Teknopreneur
Media for business technology, IGADD's communication support and publisher.

 

THE DIGITAL DIVIDE
An introduction to the situation and issues
FALLACIES
Seven misconceptions about the Digital Divide
TRUTHS
Nine truths about
the Digital Divide
HISTORY
A decade of efforts
to close the Divide
GOVERNMENTS
Why governments alone can't close the Divide
PRIVATE SECTOR
Why corporations and entrepreneurs can't close the Divide
HARVARD/MIT
How these universities generated the ideas behind our model
WIRELESS
Why cellular alliances in Asia are the basis for our model
FUNDING
Where the money for our model will come from
STAKEHOLDERS
How each type of stakeholder can anchor our model
MEANINGFUL BROADBAND
Emerging markets need broadband that fits the context of users

INDONESIA
Can 235 million be meaningfully connected?
EVENTS
Future, current, and past activities
ABOUT IGADD
Brief summary of IGADD
"20 by 12"
Our rallying cry
OUR TEAM
The IGADD secretariat
PARTNERS
Our partner institutions
BRAIN TRUST
The experts who set IGADD's agenda
HISTORY OF IGADD
How DigitalDivide.org's model was born