Towards the ubiquitous internet

To deeply impact a society via virtual communities you need to have broad access to the internet. One way that his happens in indonesia is via internet cafes or warnets, as they're called here. Another way I believe that this will happen in the future is via wireless. Only 3 out of every 100 Indonesians have a phone in their home. Lots of fiber has been laid throughout Indonesia, but the last mile problem is huge. The last mile infrastructure will probably never support broadband internet or be broadly installed in homes. So, all the activity in the Wi-Fi area is very interesting. I love the warchalking symbol card that Jenny posted about. The idea is that as you encounter Wi-Fi access points you note them in a public way (via chalk on a nearby building). I hope that I can find some Indonesia ISP that is seriously integrating Wi-Fi access points into their strategy. It seems that the potential here is HUGE. Marry Wi-Fi, GSM, GPRS, internet cafes and small devices (something like Danger) and I think you start to get an internet solution that will really impact Indonesia.

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A PDF of the card to print out and use [31k]
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categories: Virtual Communities