TY - JOUR
T1 - Co-financing of bottom-up approaches towards Broadband Infrastructure Development
T2 - A new opportunity for Universal Service Funding
AU - Williams, Idongesit
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Bottom – up Broadband infrastructure development facilitated by the civil societies and social enterprises are on the increase. However, the problem plaguing the development of these bottom-up approaches in developing countries is the financial capacity to expand their small networks into larger networks –leading to the demise of some of these initiatives. This paper proposes co-financing of these networks as a means of sustaining the bottom-up Broadband network. The argument of this paper is anchored on two of developing country cases. One in India and the other in Ghana. One survived with financial injection and the other did not due to low revenue. This paper, based on these cases, proposes the utilization and the reintroduction of Universal Service funds in developing countries to aid these small networks. This is a qualitative study, the Grounded Theory approach was used adopted gather data for these cases.
AB - Bottom – up Broadband infrastructure development facilitated by the civil societies and social enterprises are on the increase. However, the problem plaguing the development of these bottom-up approaches in developing countries is the financial capacity to expand their small networks into larger networks –leading to the demise of some of these initiatives. This paper proposes co-financing of these networks as a means of sustaining the bottom-up Broadband network. The argument of this paper is anchored on two of developing country cases. One in India and the other in Ghana. One survived with financial injection and the other did not due to low revenue. This paper, based on these cases, proposes the utilization and the reintroduction of Universal Service funds in developing countries to aid these small networks. This is a qualitative study, the Grounded Theory approach was used adopted gather data for these cases.
KW - Universal Service funds
KW - Broadband Infrastructure
KW - Universal Access and Service
U2 - 10.13052/NBICT.2016.003
DO - 10.13052/NBICT.2016.003
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1902-097X
VL - 2016
SP - 39
EP - 64
JO - Nordic and Baltic Journal of Information and Communications Technologies
JF - Nordic and Baltic Journal of Information and Communications Technologies
IS - 1
M1 - 003
ER -