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Presentation on

“DakNet”

T.Swetha
07W81A0568
CSE-B
What is DakNet ?

• An ad hoc network
• Uses wireless technology
• Provides digital connectivity
• Takes advantage of existing transportation and
communication infrastructure
DakNet Architecture
• Main components:
▫ Hub
▫ Kiosk
▫ Mobile Access Point
ICT
• Information and Communication Technology
• Does not rely on real time connectivity
• Affordable and interactive
• Asynchronous mode of communication
• Example:
▫ Voice mail
▫ E-mail
▫ Electronic bulletin board
Challenges to ICT
• Ratio of communication infrastructure costs to
income is many times larger in developing
countries
• High cost and limited access are the main
obstacles to telephone services
• High dependence on technicians
• Higher price and lower quality due to monopoly
• Limited human capacity, expensive hardware etc
Competitors: ICT Space Technology
4 types of technological alternatives :
DakNet in action
DakNet implemented bus
DakNet implemented Bike
• Motormen are e- postmen hired locally that ride
their motorbikes between the central hub and
surrounding schools
Role in developing countries
• Do not have to invest heavily in R&D themselves
• ICT becoming less dependent on expensive
physical infrastructure
• Offer same rates for local as well as international
call
• Countries implementing this:
▫ India
▫ Cambodia
▫ Costa Rica
▫ Rwanda
Drishtee

• Provides e-government platform

• Lets villagers interact with local govt. offices
remotely from kiosk
• Managed by trained operator
• Saves time and money of poor
• Determined that computers and available
connectivity were enough to capture, send, and
receive information electronically
• Constrained by India’s lack of a viable
communications infrastructure
Sneaker Net
• Used in Drishtee
• Asynchronous approach to connectivity
• Involves transporting and swapping floppy disks
from village to govt. centre and back again
• Labour-intensive
Bhoomi

• An e- governance project
• An initiative to computerize land records
• DakNet makes Bhoomi’s land records database
available to villages up to 40 km away from
Bhoomi’s district headquarters
How does it works?

• Govt bus with DakNet MAP to transport land

record requests from each village kiosk to taluka
server
• The server processes requests and outputs land
records
• Bus then delivers records to each village kiosk
• Kiosk manager prints them out and collects 15
rupees per land record.
• Bus passes by hub and stops at each village six
times per day
FMS
• First Mile Solution
• Co- founders Richard Fletcher and Amir
Alexander Hasson
• Provides telecommunication equipment that
can cheaply connect rural and remote
populations to Internet through innovative
technology
• Reaches 40,000 villagers through various
projects
Business Model
• The business model of FMS is consistent with
the core concepts of the base of the pyramid
(BOP)
• Views 4 billion people who earn less than $1500
a year
Thank you!
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