Rural ICT’s: Steps towards economic self-sustainability
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Rural ICT’s: Steps towardseconomic self-sustainability
Michael L. BesteDevelopment groupMIT Media [email protected]/~mikeb
E-markets Meeting16 May 2001
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intellectual property rights
policy environment
capacity building
appropriate applications
low-cost systems
access to capital
network effect
A rural ICT sustainabilitylaundry list
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intellectual property rights
policy environment
capacity building
appropriate applications
low-cost systems
access to capital
network effect
A rural ICT sustainabilitylaundry list
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SARISustainable Access in Rural India
Reasoning by example
With Harvard CID, IIT Madras, I-Gyan
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Low-cost systems
Let’s do the numbers….
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Low-cost systems
$1000 capital cost
$30 monthly recurrent
18% interest
25% margins
5 year depreciation
2% household income captured
$50 monthly family wage
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Smart capital
social venture funds
consumer credit
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Network effect
Metcalf law rules supreme
must move beyond the pilot mentality
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Sustainable Access for Rural India
Village Area Network
Agricultural Information System
Community Knowledge Sharing
Telecenter Cost Estimator
eDev Research Projects