Bringing eHomemakers ICT tool to Indonesia
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Bringing eHomemakers ICT tool to Indonesia
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Bringing eHomemakers ICT tool to Indonesia. About eHomemakers. Started in 1998 by passion of a single mother Started with small grant from IDRC ECHO tool recognized by UNDP as a tool for poverty eradication Has received many international awards for ECHO tool, including - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Bringing eHomemakers ICT tool to Indonesia
Economic Empowerment
Homebound
Women
HomeboundWomen
ICT
Social enterprise network
About eHomemakers
Started in 1998 by passion of a single motherStarted with small grant from IDRC ECHO tool recognized by UNDP as a tool for poverty eradicationHas received many international awards for ECHO tool, includingEricsson Innovation Award
Implications of Teleworking
Home-based
Women’s Empowerment
Income Generation
Social Outsourcing
Why Disadvantaged?
Pure economic terms
Under educated & Low skill level
Hopeless, low self-esteem, no self
confidence
Chronic poverty
Low quality of life
No opportunities
Isolated
Urban Pooor
eHomemakers ICT Tool=ECHO
Integrated collaboration and contact management system in the cloud
Enables one person to efficiently coordinate people in diverse locations for group-level social-economic missions
A tool for community organizing, sourcing, distributing and information collating.
The application is…
NOT a bulk SMS solution
Built as a people-centered organizing system
Built to serve, help, promote, assist and enhance NPO missions
Built for collaboration and innovative usage with any partner
Components in ECHO
Administration
Reporting
Projects / Tasks Notifications
Logs
Contacts
Multilingual text
SMS Sending / Replies
ECHO
• Allows you to send MMS at the cost of SMS
The revert/summary functions enable many innovative business uses.
It is a low cost application run by a not-for-profit social enterprise, and your payments will be indirectly helping other non-profits.
Has the widest range of SMS /MMS/email management functions, and has the lowest cost per message.
Why use Echo?
E.g.Soliciting Replies for Events
Conventional
Call contacts per updated list
Each call involves getting through to right person, explaining of event
Receive reverts of attendance
Data-entry attendance in report
Calculate number attending
Print attendance listing
With ECHO
Type invite message in message box
Check off category of invitees
Send off SMS to recipients and receive replies (system captures replies)
Counts number of attendees
Print attendance list
E.G of use Role of ECHO in Salaam Wanita
Weavers
Salaam Wanita Admin.
Customers
DWMAHandphone to Internet Solution
SMS Text Messaging System
Lower transaction costs
&Faster communication
Example of success-income making baskets for a single mother with 2 children (one with cerebral palsy)
Value of ECHO
SMS Blast companies
Make profit by selling your databases of confidential member information
Make profit by spamming them with advertisements
Make profit by selling databases/targeted lists to spammers and database buyers
Minimum bulk purchase of SMS required
ECHO
Signs a detailed non-profit partnership agreement with you
Does not sell or use your databases/lists
Knows the importance of data confidentiality/security for non-profits
Our integrity and reputation has been kept for 16 years
eHomemakers gets APNIC (regional Internet address registry) Information Society Innovation Fund to bring ECHO to Homenet Indonesia
http://www.apnic.net/publications/news/2013/2014-isif-asia-grants-recipients-announced-today
Homenet Indonesia is an established NGO which is a chapter of Homenet Southeast Asia (organization to support homebased workers)
http://www.homenetseasia.org
Budget breakdownProposal to APNIC did not include the Indonesian component
Cash needed to support =Sending Homenet Indonesia staff to Malaysia for training=Homenet Indonesia admin costs to support ECHO=documents to be translated from English to Bahasa=data migrationEtc(RAISED $5,600, FUNDED THROUGH ROTARY CLUB JAKARTA METROPOLITAN)
Telco sponsor needed:=Support free SMS for the women until their businesses take off then pay discounted rate=free handphones for women who don’t have phones=Android phones to act as SMS gateways
DIGI Malaysia for example had sponsored 30,000 free SMS/month for eHomemakersFor 3 years and then discounted rate after that when women could pay
LOOKING FOR AN INDONESIAN TELCO SPONSOR
One mode of connection with telco
Another option for connection
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