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Home Internet for Remote Indigenous Communities Part two - implementation Project context Implementation of facilities is the second of three project phases (baseline study, implementation, longitudinal research) Location: 3 remote

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Home Internet for Remote Indigenous Communities

Part two - implementation

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Implementation of facilities is the second of three project phases

(baseline study, implementation, longitudinal research)

Location: 3 remote central Australian outstation communities
Layout: each outstation consists of 6-12 houses, often widely spaced
Facilities and ongoing support offered to all households
ABA the major funder for implementation phase

Project context

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Configuration

HYBRID of individual household PCs, and shared Internet access
Satellite Internet services (ABG / ipstar)

– 17GB per month; up to 4/2Mbps; shaped

Point to point WiFi between houses to avoid trenching & cabling

thus reducing install time and cost

Windows PCs and printers in workgroups (4, 5,11 = 20 in total)
Tables and lockable covers

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SERVICE PROVIDER ENVIRONMENT CUSTOMER

Universal service
fferings
Unambiguous

performance commitments

Clear publicity
Sales and service

suppliers near the customer

Benign climate
Continuous power

supply

Physical security for

equipment

Institutions /

coordinating persons

Awareness of service
ptions
Disposable income
Comprehends

supplier language

Culture of equipment

care

Contactability
Stable / individual
wnership

Typical Assumptions about ICT access

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Challenges

Mobility – constant travel to/from nearest town
Communications - Single phone in each community
No institutions / coordination points for decision making in small

communities

Physical environment (mice, dust, food, kids, heat)
Power supply – some have pre-paid meters with tokens, others

have daily quotas on RE system (power can cut off randomly) => issue with maintaining continuity

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Early experience

High take-up, with preference for desktops over laptops
High volume of Internet use
YouTube, Web surfing, online purchasing, music, Google Earth,

email, photo printing – particularly, but not only, young people

Online services: Centrelink, banking
‘Facilitating’ with external contacts (accountant, Land Council,

regional arts coordinator, boarding school)

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