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Infrastructure for knowledge economies

This article by Rohan Samarajiva highlights the critical role of information infrastructure in fostering knowledge economies (KE). It discusses the essential communication capabilities that organizations and individuals need, including local and global information retrieval, publishing, and remote computing. It emphasizes the need for reliable, customer-responsive broadband, both fixed and wireless, to ensure accessibility across Sri Lanka. It also addresses the current state of international linkages, domestic backbone networks, and the evolving security and payment infrastructure necessary for a robust knowledge economy.

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Infrastructure for knowledge economies

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  1. Infrastructure for knowledge economies By Rohan Samarajiva, LIRNEasia

  2. Information infrastructure is a pillar of KE • Companies, government, non-profit organizations (including educational) and people must be able to • Communicate in multiple forms, locally and globally • Retrieve information locally and globally • Publish • Transact • Compute remotely, etc.

  3. For organizations, including those engaged in BPO • Broadband that is • Readily available • In configurations that are responsive to customer needs • Including service-level agreements and • Redundancy • Value for money (price + quality) • Generally provided over fixed links, fiber or copper • But now increasingly over wireless

  4. For people • Broadband that is • Ubiquitous • Flexible • Value for money • For most in Sri Lanka • Over mobile networks • With common-use sites as complement

  5. Common elements for both • International private leased lines of good quality (including redundancy) and price • Domestic backbone available to all operators at cost-oriented prices and on non-discriminatory basis • Security and payment infrastructure

  6. What is current situation with . . . • International link • Three operators after international liberalization of 2003-04 • Gateway still not fully open • Domestic backbone • Two major networks • No open access • Security and payment infrastructure • Not in place • Inchoate payment network developing in mobile

  7. Domestic leased line prices (2 MB/2 km, benchmarked with S Asia 55,393 23,393 18,803 12,000 3,249 2,438 49 432 358 Source: Broadband Benchmarks : Feb 2008 – Preliminary results, LIRNEasia,http://www.lirneasia.net/projects/benchmarks/

  8. Domestic leased line prices (2 MB/100 km, benchmarked with S Asia 2,760,290 40,576 18,283 6,350 4,447 2,437 Source: Broadband Benchmarks : Feb 2008 – Preliminary results, LIRNEasia,http://www.lirneasia.net/projects/benchmarks/

  9. Business broadband (2MB, Unlimited offering), benchmarked 57,385 16,619 aa 4,540 3,779 556 119 Source: Broadband Benchmarks : Feb 2008 – Preliminary results, LIRNEasia,http://www.lirneasia.net/projects/benchmarks/

  10. Business broadband (256kbps, Unlimited offering), benchmarked 8,608 8,016 2,091 964 303 241 250 119 Source: Broadband Benchmarks : Feb 2008 – Preliminary results, LIRNEasia,http://www.lirneasia.net/projects/benchmarks/

  11. Home broadband (256kbps, Unlimited offering), benchmarked 6,695 2,680 964 379 250 379 303 119 Source: Broadband Benchmarks : Feb 2008 – Preliminary results, LIRNEasia,http://www.lirneasia.net/projects/benchmarks/

  12. Business broadband QOS, India & Sri Lanka

  13. Home broadband QOS, India & Sri Lanka

  14. Broadband and Mobile Benchmarks South Asia: Feb 2008can be found at: http://www.lirneasia.net/projects/benchmarks/

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