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The Early Writings by Malcolm Matson — last modified 2006-03-31 12:18

The OPLAN concept is not proprietory to any one person - indeed, we maintain that any person undertaking an informed, objective and rationale analysis of the impact of the various digital technologies of 'abundance' and their potential deployment in a free market, will arrive at the same broad principles underlying the OPLAN concept. However, it is nearly a quarter of a century since Malcolm Matson was probably the first to formulate and articulate some of these OPLAN concepts that are now increasingly commonplace. Some of his early original writings and papers are included here for the record and for the interest of those studying the origination of radical ideas and change.

OPLAN Presentations by Malcolm Matson — last modified 2006-05-30 18:04

OPLAN presentations in .pdf format as made by Malcolm Matson and others at external events

Video, Audio by Malcolm Matson — last modified 2006-08-02 18:07

Multimedia material stored on this website or reference to on other sites

Links by Malcolm Matson — last modified 2007-04-25 15:17

Links to websites that have direct relevance to the OPLAN concept

Articles, PDFs, Slides ... by Malcolm Matson — last modified 2006-08-28 14:02

Articles, papers, tools and documents that hold important information and comment relating to the emerging OPLAN model as it is being variously deployed and developed around the world.

HOWTO by Malcolm Matson — last modified 2006-08-28 11:29

 

OTHER by Malcolm Matson — last modified 2006-08-28 11:30

 

The Economic Impact of Telecommunications on Rural Livelihoods and Poverty Reduction: a study of rural communities in India (Gujarat), Mozambique and Tanzania (PDF document, 124Kb) by Professor David Souter (Research Coordinator and Report Editor) and collegaues — last modified 2007-11-23 10:38

The last five years have seen tremendous growth in telephone ownership and use in developing countries. Until the mid-1990s, telephones were only available in the urban centres of poor countries. Some African countries had telephone densities as low as one per thousand people. Since then, mobile telephone networks have spread rapidly in most low income countries. Many people, even in low income communities, now own telephones; and most adults make some use of them, wherever they are available, usually relying on public kiosks, phone shops or airtime bought from individual phone owners. The mobile phone has become a symbol of the use of new information and communication technologies (or ICTs) in the developing world. But what impact has the telephone had on livelihoods – on how people live their lives, protect themselves against vulnerability and take opportunities for a more prosperous future? Do people use the telephone for social or business purposes? How important is it to them in emergencies? Does it make a difference to how they obtain the information they need to run their lives? And how does it fit into the pattern of other communication channels they have available? This paper begins to address these important questions with factual and evidential answers

Connected Urban Development: Innovation for Sustainability (PDF document, 373Kb) by Bas Boorsma & Wolfgang Wagner — last modified 2008-01-28 09:34

Update on the Cisco Connected Urban Development Program - Published in NATOA Journal The National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors (NATOA) is a national association that represents the communications needs and interests of local governments, and those who advise local governments. Its membership is predominately composed of local government agencies, local government staff and public officials, as well as consultants, attorneys, and engineers who consult local governments on their telecommunications needs. Its government members have responsibilities that range from cable administration, telecommunications franchising, rights-of-way management and governmental access programming to information technologies and INET planning and management.

Live at the Speed - Open Access Networks: Keeping Minnesota Communities Competitive by Malcolm Matson — last modified 2007-11-04 15:16

(Published Grand Rapids, Minn., August 13, 2007) – Live at the Speed of Light, is a challenging report released by the Blandin Foundation’s Broadband Initiative Strategy Board. It finds that public/private partnerships may be the way to overcoming rural Minnesotans’ lack of access to needed high-speed technology.

VoIP - 4D Primer : Building Voice Infrastructure in Developing Regions (PDF document, 1921Kb) by Alberto Escudero-Pascual and Louise Berthilson — last modified 2007-04-25 10:04

This 'hands-on' paper describes how to build a VoIP telephony system. The paper starts with an introduction to the essentials of telephony over the Internet (Sections 2 and 3). For those who want to put theory into practice, the two following sections cover how to build a PBX including assembling the hardware (Section 4) and installing the software (Section 5). Instead of listing all possible commands and endless configuration options, the authors have selected three practical scenarios as basic examples with the clear goal of getting the system up and running. The three scenarios are: • Private telephony in a rural community (Section 6) • Connecting the local telephone network to the PSTN (Section 7) • Interconnecting two remote communities (Section 8)

So what is an OPLAN? (PDF document, 18Kb) by Malcolm Matson — last modified 2007-01-08 09:17

A one page summary of the key defining characteristics of an OPLAN as considered by The OPLAN Foundation