[LINK] Indonesia Overtaking Australia with Wireless Internet

[Tom Worthington]

grove at zeta.org.au wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Jun 2011, Tom Worthington wrote:
> 
>> ... Indonesia as a 'near-networked' nation ...
> 
> I am hoping this conference won't be used to once again bang on about 
> the NBN and the wisdom in not doing it. ...

I raised the topic of the NBN during Dr Sulaiman's talk on 
"ICT-enablement in Environmental Social Movements in Indonesia". It was 
not something he was planning to discuss: 
<http://cecs.anu.edu.au/seminars/more/SID/2879>.

Sorry for raising the issue of public access to the Internet, but I 
thought that was what the Link list was for.

> ... I wonder if wireless is more suitable for Indonesia given the geology of the area, its concentrated
> (and dispersed) population centres and that wireless is a lot more easy 
> to spy on in an ad-hoc method than other technologies? ...

Yes, the population dispersed over many islands and issues of security 
were discussed in the talk.

> I actually do  not consider Indonesia to be a good comparison to Australia for 
> networked technologies as there are many cultural and geographical 
> differences between the two...

You might think of Australia as an archipelago, like Indonesia, but
with dirt between islands of population density, rather than water. In 
terms of culture, is there much that would make a difference? Aren't 
people much the same the world over?


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