Business models for equitable access
LONDON, Julho 2008
Grassroots communities need to get their hands dirty in shaping how information and communications technologies (ICTs) affect their lives, rather than passively leaving it up to governments and big business to decide.
This is the view of Kenyan-based ICT consultant Muriuki Mureithi, whose issue paper, Business models for equitable access, looks at ways of making ICT for development projects sustainable. A “win-win” situation is needed, argues Mureithi, where communities see government as a facilitator, and actively begin to form partnerships with the private sector to foster local entrepreneurship.
Mureithi’s paper is one of a series on aspects of equitable access to ICT infrastructure commissioned by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC).
>Go to the Equitable access series main page
| Anexo | Tamanho |
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 Summary, by Alan Finlay | 68.95 KB |
| Commentary, by Seán Ó Siochrú | 87.54 KB |
| Full issue paper | 165.24 KB |
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A people-centered model
I’d like to propose a model which came into being with the specific aim of leveraging investment in ICT infrastructure. We call it People-Centered Economic Development, but it can also be described as social capitalism. Though advocacy , we’ve leveraged investment from government by developing strategy papers which make the case for social returns with full cost recovery.
First pitched at US President Clinton in he re-election campaign for 1996 it described a IT services company yeilding profit for community purpose and that’s how it ended up here in the UK to fund the development of economic development papers.
Thus, what we produce is software which yields the revenue needed to support an international project, and our social product which is our advocacy work. This funded a 4 year research project in Ukraine which resulted in a microeconomic strategy paper, going on to influence the decision to build rehab centres for disabled children and increase adoption allowances.
The nil overall cost strategy over 5 years is to deploy up to 25,000 community telecentres which under the same, profit for purpose model yield profit to fund the creation of family type group care homes for all.
The development history of this model will be found on our main website at http://www.p-ced.com whereas our revenue source, a social enterprise serving some of the UKs major corporations as a ICT service company is here.
http://people-centered.net
Jeff Mowatt
Director P-CED UK