village telco - tedx newtown
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My TEDx talk on the Village Telco and the Mesh Potato Project: http://villagetelco.org Event site: http://www.tedxnewtown.co.za/ More about TEDx: http://www.tedx.comTRANSCRIPT
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The Village Telcoand
The Mesh Potatoa TEDx talk18 September 2009
Steve SongTelecommunications Fellow
Shuttleworth Foundation
email: [email protected]: http://manypossibilities.net
skype: steve_l_songtwitter: stevesong
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Connectedness
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The average Kenyan spends
more than 50% of their disposable
income on mobile services.
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Communication Networks
2Innovation1Efficiencies
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1.Tinkeringis the new
inventing
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“Economic growth occurs whenever people take
resources and rearrange them in ways that are more
valuable. A useful metaphor for production in an economy comes from
the kitchen. To create valuable final products, we
mix inexpensive ingredients together
according to a recipe.”- Paul Romer
http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/EconomicGrowth.html
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What would happen if everyone had the freedom to tinker
and adapt their telephone networks?
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2.Emergenceis the new
order
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From a mechanistic metaphor...
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... to a more organic, living metaphor
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TelephoneInfrastructure
InternetInfrastructure
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What would happen if we could deploy
telephone networks more like Internet
networks?
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3.Quantityis the newquality
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Google's Search Servers
Lots of inexpensive commodity technology
outperforms expensive custom
made servers.
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What would happen if telephone
infrastructure were so cheap anyone could deploy it?
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4. Atomsare the new
bits
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The Cantenna
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What would happen if we could design our own telecom infrastructure?
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paradigmshift
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1995Walled gardens
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2009Walled gardens
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expensive, locked down telecoms in Africa
++ cheap, tinkerable,
broadband technology ==
opportunity
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Village telco workshop June 2008
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David Rowe
Elektra
Rael Lissoos
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Early 2009
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2011?
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Come join us!
http://villagetelco.org
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Steve SongTelecommunications FellowShuttleworth Foundation
email: [email protected]: http://manypossibilities.netskype: steve_l_songtwitter: stevesong