[wsfii-discuss] In-Depth Case Study "Lessons learned from theDjurslandS.net experience"

Thu Mar 29 17:40:23 UTC 2007

Great comments Bjarke,

I already added my name to the author list and I hope to put something
together for submission before the deadline.
http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/author/submit/1 

My idea is to post it up at www.opendiv.org <http://www.opendiv.org/>
for others to review. I also thought seeing the developing Open Digital
Village (ODiV) project in Ghana as a bridge we would definitely want to
build on the wsfii related efforts mentioned below and also discuss how
Air Jaldi Summit helped to further bring that process together and some
of our plans and hopes for the Summit in Ghana later this year. So I'll
try to incorporate the materials below into the web content we are
developing for the ODiV website, because this is the foundation that is
leading to the development and realization of our work in Ghana.

So I am shooting to have this up by the end of the day or more
realistically probably over the next day or two and then send a link
here for others to take a look and possible provide feedback on.

Jeff

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Subject: [wsfii-discuss] In-Depth Case Study "Lessons learned from
theDjurslandS.net experience"

Dear friends of WSFII and community networks !  :-)

Here you got a link to my report to InfoDev at the Worldbank on lessons
learned from the DjurslandS.net:

<http://hos.nr-djurs.net/bjarke/In-Depht_Study_of_the_DjurslandS_net_exp
erience.pdf>
http://hos.nr-djurs.net/bjarke/In-Depht_Study_of_the_DjurslandS_net_expe
rience.pdf

Explanation:
One year ago about 30 open access network initiatives around the World
had answered the questionnaire which people around the Freifunk.net had
developed on behalf of OPLAN for InfoDev at the Worldbank.
7 of these about 30 networks - being very interesting and having
distinct types of PPPs and project finance approaches - were during
spring and summer 2006 asked to make assignment with InfoDev and deliver
each their 50 pages Indepth Case Study with detailed data and
information on their own local open access network.
3 of these 7 is networks established and run purely by volunteers,
namely www.nepalwireless.net, www.wirelessghana.com and
www.djurslands.net. Already last autumn reports were published from the
first two of these 3 non-commercial networks, - now by this e-mail you
got the link to the one coming from Djursland.
As founder of DjurslandS.net and educational leader of the "Djursland
International Institute of Rural Wireless Broadband" (DIIRWB), InfoDev
asked me to do the indepht study on behalf of the Djursland society. It
is now finalized and it consist of 52 illustrated pages in letter format
and it was send to InfoDev by the 6th of March 2007. It is called:
"Lessons learned from the DjurslandS.net experience - An In-Depth Case
Study of the Huge Rural Area Wireless DjurslandS.net in Denmark". What
we learned - and now can teach internationally - is really mind blowing
and sensational, and it has the potential to bridge the technological
and social devide between rich and poor societies around the World. -
Please read it and - if you are not one already - become a bridge
yourself ! ;-)

With Smiles and Friendliness from Bjarke :-)
Teaching at DIIRWB.net

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