spicyayam
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The Indonesian President was in Bali last week to announce his "Tampaksiring Strategy". The plan seeks to increase employment and reduce poverty.
I thought this article was interesting as it argues that broadband internet should be part of the strategy.
The Bali economic team forgot to incorporate a necessary enabler of its own success: Broadband. If the economic reform strategy could be deployed in parallel with a corresponding effort to build a massive meaningful “broadband ecosystem”, its ambitious goals could not only be met, but exceeded.
A new body of economic studies, including those being prepared by Indonesia Group Against Digital Divide (IGADD), shows that broadband has become an overall driver of macroeconomic change, particularly in Asia.
The most oft-quoted new finding, based on a new World Bank econometric study, is this: For every 10 per cent of broadband penetration, developing nations will get a boost of 1.39 per cent added to their GDP, all other things being equal.
But the most significant data shows that broadband is needed to do what Indonesia’s educational system cannot: produce new ways for low-income citizens to enter into a pattern of lifelong learning and economic security, triggered by broadband mobile services.
These studies have influenced a number of countries to bring broadband into their economic stimulus plans.
From China to Singapore, Indonesia’s economic competitors race forward with plans that make “next generation [broadband] networks” into drivers of competitive advantage.
But not Indonesia. Here businesses and consumers still sputter along with maddeningly slow Internet — or no Internet at all. No wonder Indonesia scores at the bottom of international indexes of productivity. While Malaysia is on track to connect 50 per cent of its households to broadband this year, only 2 per cent of Indonesian homes have it.
Forget cloud computing as a way of driving investment to Indonesia’s weak domestic economy. Forget plans to turn Indonesia into a technology-driven “knowledge society”. Forget the idea that Indonesia could be an R&D hub which replaces silly apps like Twitter with meaningful mobile “killer apps” of its own.
I thought this article was interesting as it argues that broadband internet should be part of the strategy.
The Bali economic team forgot to incorporate a necessary enabler of its own success: Broadband. If the economic reform strategy could be deployed in parallel with a corresponding effort to build a massive meaningful “broadband ecosystem”, its ambitious goals could not only be met, but exceeded.
A new body of economic studies, including those being prepared by Indonesia Group Against Digital Divide (IGADD), shows that broadband has become an overall driver of macroeconomic change, particularly in Asia.
The most oft-quoted new finding, based on a new World Bank econometric study, is this: For every 10 per cent of broadband penetration, developing nations will get a boost of 1.39 per cent added to their GDP, all other things being equal.
But the most significant data shows that broadband is needed to do what Indonesia’s educational system cannot: produce new ways for low-income citizens to enter into a pattern of lifelong learning and economic security, triggered by broadband mobile services.
These studies have influenced a number of countries to bring broadband into their economic stimulus plans.
From China to Singapore, Indonesia’s economic competitors race forward with plans that make “next generation [broadband] networks” into drivers of competitive advantage.
But not Indonesia. Here businesses and consumers still sputter along with maddeningly slow Internet — or no Internet at all. No wonder Indonesia scores at the bottom of international indexes of productivity. While Malaysia is on track to connect 50 per cent of its households to broadband this year, only 2 per cent of Indonesian homes have it.
Forget cloud computing as a way of driving investment to Indonesia’s weak domestic economy. Forget plans to turn Indonesia into a technology-driven “knowledge society”. Forget the idea that Indonesia could be an R&D hub which replaces silly apps like Twitter with meaningful mobile “killer apps” of its own.