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Title: Czech Case Study


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Czech Case Study
  • Pavel Gnip, Karel Charvat, CCSS

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aBard
  • Analysing Broadband Access for Rural Development
    (A-BARD) is a 24 month Coordination Action
    started in January 2005 to research rural
    broadband provision and use, as part of the
    Scientific Support to Policies ( SSP ) in the EU
    Sixth Framework Programme.
  • A-BARD aims to continuously identify views on the
    issues and barriers to widespread broadband
    provision and the extent to which broadband can
    act as an external driver of change in rural
    economies.
  • Targeted to the needs of rural communities A-BARD
    addresses questions close to eRural actors such
    as
  • Rural broadband deployment in rural Europe
    issues, models, best practices, affordability and
    acessibility?
  • Broadband Applications and Services what is
    emerging and can some of those applications and
    services directly address the digital divide?

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A-BARD www.a-bard.org Analysing Broadband
Access for Rural Development
  • A-BARD (Analysing Broadband Access for Rural
    Development )
  • Coordination Action to research rural broadband
    provision use
  • Part of the Scientific Support to Policies (SSP)
    in the EU Sixth Framework Programme
  • During 2005 2006, A-BARD will continuously
    identify
  • Views on the issues barriers to widespread
    broadband provision
  • How broadband can act as a driver of change in
    rural economies
  • Partners
  • National Microelectronics Application Centre Ltd
    (MAC) Ireland
  • Ceske Centrum Pro Strategicka Studia
    (CCSS) Czech Republic
  • Institute of Communication Information
    Technologies Ltd (ITTI) Poland
  • Mainstrata (MSTR) Spain
  • Cybermoor (CYBM) UK
  • North West Labs Ltd (NWLabs) Ireland
  • Power Lake AB (PLAB) Sweden

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Project Overview
  • A-BARD Goals
  • Focus enhance awareness understanding of the
    benefits of broadband applications services
    deployment in rural areas
  • Facilitate the exchange of experience best
    practice to rural stakeholders and interests
  • Identify the institutional policy frameworks
    that are delaying roll-out
  • Identify areas where further RTD is needed to
    provide universal solutions

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Key questions that A-BARD will address include
  • What applications and services exist ?, what is
    emerging ?, how ?, when ? who
    should implement the solutions ?
  • When will they be accessible and affordable in
    rural areas ?
  • What socio-economic aspects need to be considered
  • to ensure that meaningful applications and
    services development and implementation takes
    place in rural areas?

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Project Vision
  • To create a European Technology Platform
    involving stakeholders of the whole eRural value
    chain, in order to achieve the objectives fixed
    by the Lisbon Strategy and eEurope initiative

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A-BARD target audience
  • Users (Actual or potential) of broadband
    services, applications and technologies in rural
    areas, local public and private sectors actors
  • Local, regional, national and European policy
    makers,
  • Local, regional, national and European
    authorities
  • Fellow EU broadband projects and other European
    networks clusters.

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What is the situation of community Internet
access in the country, which layers of society
does the Internet reach?
  • Rapid change during last year
  • Potential coverage of all population by broadband
    (CDMA, EDGE, ADSL, cable TV)
  • Usage Internet by companies on relatively high
    level
  • Usage of Internet by citizens still low under
    European average (there is not direct relation
    between coverage and usage)
  • Main users urban citizens, young people,
    urbanized rural areas (areas around large cities)

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Who are the protagonists of Internet access State
  • Ministry of Informatics National Broadband
    Strategy
  • In 2005 Ministry supported Internet access by
    grants 25M Euro
  • Regions for example Vysocina Rowanet Project
    building fiber network in rural region
  • Municipalities networks build on the base of
    grants

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Who are the protagonists of Internet access
Business
  • Czech Telecom (ADSL)
  • Alternative operators (GITY, etc)
  • Cable TV main internet providers in big cities
  • Mobile operators (play important role because
    they offer flat rate for GPRS, CDMA and EDGE)
  • Regional and local operators

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Who are the protagonists of Internet access
Communities
  • FreeNet local networks organized by citizens

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What is their service profile?
  • Key role on market
  • Mobile operators CR has penetration of mobile
    phones 110.For Web they offer flat rate services
  • Cable TV flat rate services
  • Grooving importance of ADSL in last year

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What is their service profile?
  • Municipalities
  • Free or paid services to local business and
    citizens
  • FreeNet
  • Services for members of network and access using
    WIFI

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What are the consequences of sustainability?
  • Internet start to play important role in rural
    development.
  • Vysocina case documented, that investment to
    infrastructure and application could improve
    situation in all regions
  • Internet start to be important not only for new
    commence, but start play role also in such
    applications like agriculture

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What are the consequences of sustainability?
  • Entertainment and young people play important
    role in usage of Internet and need of better
    connectivity, but it has also influence on rest
    of population
  • Demand is slowly grooving

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Are there any national characteristics?
  • Flat rate of mobile operators for data services
  • FreeNet model

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Potential problems
  • Education of population (mainly rural)
  • Awareness
  • Till now limited access in some areas
  • Needs for applications

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Questions Answers
  • A-BARD First Review
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