Few advantages of phone cellular in Developing countries

Digitaldivide becomes serious problem at Developing country. Limited telecommunication
lines, high cost slow connections and lack of skills on ICT use, lack of regulatory
framework and limited IT budget, make e government and e business have internal
and external barriers. Improvement of phone cellular investors in developing
countries make government, business people find alternative. The problems of
e government and e business implementation, find solutions now.

The users of phone cellular in developing countries (almost 75 %), make Banks
and government use mobile banking and mobile government for alternative. Few
countries success to implement mobile service, as Philippine success to use
SMS for population certification service, Germany success to use service mobile
office, Singapore success to use SMS public service, example passport, tax payment service, Indonesia success to use e Banking for entrepreneurs service.

The quickest phone cellular technology and cheapest than internet technology in developing countries, make Government, banking, businesses activities change to phone cellular. Few advantages that phone cellular give for public service and business,

1. Pooling / Voting,

You can use pooling / voting in phone cellular, for survey customers. You will know what your customers want from your products and services.
You can use voting for general election and public aspiration (Government)

2. Announcer,

You can use announcer function in phone cellular, for new products campaign
(for business and banking)
We can campaign public services, commodity distribution information and campaign of government activity.

3. Auto responds info,

The entrepreneurs can give a chance to their customers to use auto respond info, ask new products in details, and before decide to buy.

People can ask to government how to get birth certificate, identity card, tax payment info and others government services.

4. Auto respond cascading,

People can register to get credit card, open account in the Bank. Register to get birth certificate, passport, identity card and others public services (Government)


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Surabaya dream to be Cyber City in East java Indonesia

Surabaya as capital city of East Java Indonesia has full of varieties problems to face,
beginning, rubbish, environment, traffic jam to footstall problems.

Surabaya that so popular as Hero city, through 715 years anniversary, trying
to make a new innovation through Information Technology to manage government.

Beginning from e procurement, known as best practices in Indonesia (based on
World Bank Survey), Surabaya also tries to improve public services based on IT.

The Government has commitment and consistent to use IT, because of best experiences
in e procurement implementation. Using Information Technology more efficient,
transparent and decreasing budget, because not using papers.

Joint venture with Telecommunication limited company, as social responsibility program, Surabaya had built 36 Hot spot (wireless fidelity). Through Hot spot facilities, publics can access internet easily, so that Surabaya can empower publics through IT.

The benefits to public, beside getting information easily, public can,

1. Improve their human resources,

2. Improve communication between government to public,

3. Empower public to be entrepreneurs,


4. Get access easily to Government information,

5. More transparent,

6. Improve public service,

7. Decrease digital divide.

Surabaya
as trading, services, tourism, business
and students city, expect to be more popular and well know around the world.

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North Sumatra government efforts to decrease digital divide

All efforts have been done North Sumatra Government with stake holders to decrease
digital divide. Planning to build 100 villages digital (Kampoeng digital), 20 tourism village digital ( Kampoeng wisata digital), 150 school on line, 100 mosque digital, 100 government community digital, 10 library digital and 100 small medium enterprise center have been implemented one by one.

One of region, called Terang Bulan village ( KampoengTerang Bulan) have been implementing successfully North Sumatra Government idea. Terang Bulan Village take is not far from Medan, the capital city of North Sumatra, about 17 km.

Terang Bulan is only remote village with 500 populations with varieties ethnic, domination Javanese, karonese, bataknese, and padang.
The populations have varieties profession, as farmer, employer, publish service, teacher, small medium enterprise.

To find education is difficult there, take 1,5 km for Elementary school, and junior high school and one must go out village to attend senior high school.

Brilliants idea, remote villages that have not telephone network, to build wireless tower point to point, in order to access internet. The young generations worked together, to achieve their dreaming.The simple infrastructure, create many entrepreneurs
from the village,

1.They begin to learn how to use internet, browsing email and searching strategies.

2. Create e commerce and selling village products.

3.Training web design for empower skill.

Using internet, they begin to know how to market on net and create net entrepreneurs. Finally, they must know the internet marketing strategies.


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Travel entrepreneurs take part in Majapahit Travel Fair

Tourism becomes important role to empower traveling entrepreneurs. To promote Indonesia tourism in Indonesia, government with stake holders held Majapahit Travel
Fair in Surabaya city east java. There are few program that plan to promo,

1. Travel Exchange ( Travex)

2. Promotion of tourism, culture and art

3. Farm Trip

4. Workshop.

Majapahit Travel Fair plan to be hold every year in order to motivate traveling
entrepreneurs, tourism industry so that people will appreciate tourism. Finally,
improve regional and national economy.

The Majapahit Travel Fair also has interesting exhibition as,

Floor Plan Exhibition

Buyers and Sellers Program

Traditional Dances Festival

Government expect to be able to invite 14000 tourist from others countries to visit Indonesia.

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East Java Government empower Batik designer

Batik is traditional culture from Indonesia that so popular around the world.

Indonesia has million archipelagos with different culture and language so that
you find different batik design in every region. The performance of batik design
follows culture philosophy of the region. It will look different between Pekalongan
batik, Yogya Batik, Sidoarjo Batik, Madura Batik and others.

Traditional culture to design batik using canting, seem not to be interested in by young generations, so that there is no regeneration. Lack of human resources to design batik, make batik production decrease, although few foreigners seem interested in learning batik designing.


Empower Batik entrepreneurs, government try to build village center (Kampoeng Batik). Kampoeng Batik called, specific region that has activity: design batik, showroom, promotion and transaction.
The Kampoeng Batik or center of Batik Home Industry had been built at Surabaya as capital city of East Java and Sidoarjo as popular with volcano mud.

Function government here, giving stimulant, capital, motivation, help to promote
batik product and give information how to get personal right (patent) from Government.

 

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The Government tries building entrepreneurship from small village

Few Asia countries try to decrease digital divide problem through brilliant strategies.
India tries building Tele centers that gives public service at open areas. Indonesia
as developing country at south East Asia tries building Digital villages, Mosques
digitals, Libraries digitals, Small Medium Enterprise digitals, tourism digital and school on line at remote area.

The purposes of efforts above to support decreasing digital divide problems,
to achieve World Community information that had been planned by 180 countries
world wide on 2015.

Korea as Asia Country that move faster in ICT than others Developing Countries
in Asia, aid to give improving in human resources.

Through improvement of using Internet Technology, Asian make progress in business.
Marketing uses ICT, can reduce transactions cost while increasing the speed and reliability of transactions.

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The strategies of Indonesia Government to decrease digital divide
By Erny Setyawati

Indonesia as developing country has many problems to decrease digital divide. Challenges that Indonesia must face, as internal barriers, lack of skills on ICT use, culture, beside external barriers, as lack of regulatory frame work and security issues.
Indonesia ICT Award 2008 (INAiCTA), one of Indonesia effort to make progress in ICT.
INAICTA is special program to give awards in order to motivate ICT industries in Indonesia. We can say that INAICTA is program for APICTA preparation. APICTA is ICT Award program in Pacific Asia. According to calendar schedule, APICTA will be held on November 12 – 16, 2008 at JCC Jakarta Indonesia.

Programs that INAICTA will take place at Jakarta, beginning March 2008, as
1.Beginning road show and publication program
2.Business matching program
3.Workshop
4. Exhibition.
INAICTA program has purposes, to give motivation to ICT Industries, and gives chance to the best contestant to sell and meet investors.
There are 10 categories that INAICTA give to contestant;
1.e Government
2.e Business (Finance, automation)
3.e Education, e entertainment,
4.Supply chain management, tool & infrastructure, research & development, student project
(elementary school, junior high school, senior high school) and smart campus.

The best winner will take part in APICTA in Pacific Asia. Before they take part in APICTA program, the senior APICTA participant will share experiences about:
1.How to handle jury
2.How to give the best presentation and marketing.
By doing many efforts, Indonesia government hope can give motivation to their people in order to follow ICT improvement.

________________________________________________Erny Setyawati
is creative Copy writer that has experiences in writing for four years. She
has been writing home business and internet marketing articles, sales letter,
email marketing, advertisement content, banner, newsletters and others interesting
products of copy writing. Her Ezine, Bali Global Market Ezine is responded by
peoples, because of rich content, success to educate people, build Net entrepreneurship.
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