Proposer's Name: Ms. Sylvia Cadena
Proposer's Organization: APNIC Foundation
Co-Proposer's Name: Ms. Pablo Hinojosa
Co-Proposer's Organization: APNIC
Co-Organizers:
Ms., Carolina, CAEIRO, Technical Community, LACNIC Ms., Vymala, Thuron, Technical Community, AFRINIC
Session Format: Round Table - 90 Min
Proposer:
Country: Australia
Stakeholder Group: Technical Community
Co-Proposer:
Country: Australia
Stakeholder Group: Technical Community
Speaker: Benjz Gerard Sevilla
Speaker: Michael Ginguld
Speaker: Jennifer Chung
Speaker: Shita Laksmi
Speaker: Steve Song
Speaker: Nicolas Echaniz
Speaker: Carlos Rey-Moreno
Speaker: Jochai Ben-Avie
Content of the Session:
The round table will explore the link between innovative business models for access provision, innovative device designs that contribute to access provision and local content generation to engage local communities as a shift to the paradigm of infrastructure ownership to support underserved communities worldwide.
Two main contributors per topic will provide fire starters remarks for a round table discussion, as follows:
- Devices: Nicolas Echaniz (Altermundi) will focus his contributions about their work designing LibreRouter. Benjz Sevilla (Ateneo de Manila) will share about their work designing drones for humanitarian assistance. They will present the devices they have worked on.
- Jennifer Chung (Dot Asia) will share about the experiences from .Asia supporting organisations that produce local content in Asia, that reflect their cultural identity and Shita Laksmi will share about her experiences supporting organizations developing applications and services for local needs.
- Michael Ginguld (AirJaldi), Steve Song (NSRC) and Jochai Ben-Avie (Mozilla) will speak about innovative business models for access provision.
The round table will focus on identifying the correlation among the 3 elements outlined above and the challenges that those seeking to address the needs of underserved communities faced when tackling the access challenge and the barriers for innovation.
Relevance of the Session:
Many of the challenges associated with connecting the next billion are associated with the technologies that can be of use to connect communities in underserved areas and the challenges to provide reliable connectivity that supports economic and social development. However, most of the conversations are around the use of devices that are developed in the north, with traditional business models for commercial viability in mind.
This session will contribute to explore issues around ownership of the creative power that could leap the access discussion forward, where innovation is not only applied to the how (devices and technologies) but the what (content and services) and the who and for how long (alternative business models).
Tag 1: Internet & ICTs for the Sustainable Development Goals
Tag 2: Internet-based Innovation
Tag 3: Local access
Interventions:
- Devices: Nicolas Echaniz (Altermundi) and Carlos Rey-Moreno (UWC) will focus his contributions about their work designing LibreRouter. Benjz Sevilla (Ateneo de Manila) will share about their work designing drones for humanitarian assistance. They will present the devices they have worked on.
- Jennifer Chung (Dot Asia) will share about the experiences from .Asia supporting organisations that produce local content in Asia, that reflect their cultural identity and Shita Laksmi (DiploFoundation) will share about her experiences supporting organizations developing applications and services for local needs.
- Michael Ginguld (AirJaldi), Steve Song (NSRC) and Jochai Ben-Avie (Mozilla) will speak about innovative business models for access provision.
Diversity:
The main contributors bring voices from Argentina (Nicolas Echaniz - Altermundi), Philippines (Benjz Sevilla - Ateneo de Mania), India (Michael Ginguld - AirJaldi), Brazil (Anya Orlova - UNESP) and South Africa (Carlos Rey-Moreno - UWC) as well as regional (Jennifer Chung and Shita Laksmi from the Asia region) and global views from NSRC (Steve Song) and Mozilla (Jochai Ben-Avie) .
5 male and 3 female speakers have confirmed.
Speakers represent private sector, government, civil society, technical community and academia.
Onsite Moderator: Duncan Macintosh
Online Moderator: Vymala Thuron
Rapporteur: Carolina Caeiro
Online Participation:
Prior to the event, the workshop organisers will request contributions via social media and promote the session to encourage participation.
A group of remote speakers will be assembled prior to the event, based on their ideas and their remote interventions will be given priority during the session.
Discussion facilitation:
The workshop will be moderated by Duncan Macintoch, CEO APNIC Foundation. To ignite the debate and set the scene, the workshop will commence with 3 minute remarks by each of the speakers listed above. Contributions from the pool of remote speakers will then be shared with the group and the microphone will be rolled throughout the room to capture the contributions from the audience.
Conducted a Workshop in IGF before?: Yes
Link to Report: http://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/index.php?q=filedepot_download/4098/430
Additional Speakers:
Agenda:
5 min. Moderator set the scene – / the round table will explore how shifting the ownership of devices, infrastructure and content platforms can unlock
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