KEY AREAS OF FOCUS

• Tunisia is our first focus country for PCI/GC, so we developed a number of steps designed to move the Tunisian initiative forward. We agreed on the need to balance tailoring the initiative to Tunisia’s specific requirements, versus creating a reference design for other focus countries.

• We are using meetings as forcing functions for the actions we need to take to keep our efforts on the move. The July 28 meeting gives us a near-term milestone to continue to involve the Silicon Valley community, while the October meetings in Washington, D.C., will allow us all to bring together a larger group of the like-minded from the international community to support our goals.

ACTION ITEMS FROM MAY 31

1. Locate and begin working with champions for our efforts within the World Bank.

2. Operationalize the Multilateral Development Banks’ (MDB’s) commitment to double public and private funding for Internet-related initiatives by 2020.

3. Use October Event and Global Entrepreneurship Summit (June in Silicon Valley) to begin pivot to setting up investment projects to achieve economic and social outcomes at the population level (Customer Lifetime Value tools could be applied to Citizen or Community Member Lifetime Value).

4. Create an investment model that backers can use; the return on investment from Internet connectivity will emerge via social, economic and political outcomes, rather than through a telco’s “revenue per user” ROI. The data collected on Internet deployment outcomes should be used to give the banks comfort that what they are doing will have a positive outcome. (We will have to go thru this loop with EBRD and World Bank.)

5. Get Tunisian team to sign up to collect the data and ensuring the efficacy of their efforts.

6. Define what success would look like – along such axes as community building, capacity building – beyond connected schools.

7. Pathway of progress with metrics at each step to develop “Producers, not Consumers” -  empowering users to create opportunity for themselves and for others.

   1. Start with getting schools connected.

   2. Focus on functional literacy in entry and professional language.

   3. Creation of apps and native content.

   4. Business skills, entrepreneurship.

   5. Achieving outcomes – eg health, education

8. Set up regional working groups – IEEE, Banks. Ask for countries to volunteer to lead.

9. Define pipeline of countries who want to enter this process

   1. Tunisia

   2. India

   3. Myanmar

   4. Afghanistan

   5. Help gain visibility for other countries coming to ask for help

GOALS FOR THE OCTOBER MEETING IN D.C.

1. Be sure the World Bank can participate in a way that is most valuable.

2. Precepts – what is rationale for connectivity?

3. Have in the hands the bones of a five-year plan

4. Stakeholders – attendance of governments and involvements, NGO’s ICT community

5. Knowledge base - build out a way to capture what we’re learning.

Organizers

• Mei Lin Fung
• John Conor Ryan
• Gary Bolles

Participants

• Doc Searls, President, Customer Common
• Joyce Searls, Board Member, Customer Common
• Ritu Sharma, CEO, SDG Nexus
• Frank Williams, Director and United Nations Rep.,  World Vision International, New  York.   
• Karen McCabe, Senior Director, Strategic Marketing and Product Development, IEEE
• Chris Jannuzzi, Executive Director, Electron Devices Society (EDS) and Photonics Society (PS)
• Nnamdi Abraham-Igwe, Emerging Markets Access Lead, Google
• John Mattison, Chief Medical Information Officer for Kaiser Permanante, Southern California
• Lynne Gallagher, President of Telecom/Telematique, Inc, USAID.
• Manu K. Bhardwaj, Senior Advisor, Secretary for Technology and Internet Policy Matters, U.S. State Department
• Gary A. Bolles, Organizing Committee, People Centered Internet
• Mei Lin Fung, Organizer, Secretariat; Organizing Committee, People Centered Internet
• John Ryan, Organizing Committee, People Centered Internet, Founder & CEO, WireTheWorld
• Steven Huter, Director, Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC)
• Suhas Subramanyam, Special Assistant for Technology Policy, Office of Science and Technology Policy, The White House
• Houria Iderkou, Co-Creator, People Centered Internet
• Khuyen Bui, Intern, People Centered Internet