Implementation of the National Broadband Plan: Digital Development Phase 1

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Implementation of the National Broadband Plan
Digital Development Phase 1

• South Africa Connect

• Presentation by Kefilwe Madingoane
• Chief Director -
  Broadband
• Department of Telecommunications and
  Postal Services
• Republic of South Africa
• September 2014

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Overview

• The case for a National Broadband plan
• South Africa Connect
• Implementation challenges
• Current Progress

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The case for a National Broadband Plan

• World Bank Report
• 10 increase in broadband penetration 0.24
  1.5 in GDP growth
• Developing economies are on the upper range of
  the scale
• United Nations Millennium Development Goals
  Report
• MDG2 Achieve universal primary education
  e-Education
• MDG4 Improve child mortality e-Health
• MDG5 Improve maternal health e-Health
• MDG6 Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other disease
  e-Health
• MDG7 Ensure environmental sustainability
  Broadband reduces
• carbon footprint
• World Summit on Information society
• well-developed information and communication
  network infrastructure can accelerate the social
  and economic progress of countries
• WSIS accordingly defined and adopted ten targets
  addressing connectivity across different sectors.
• Global Information Technology Report
• SA has regressed with respect to development of
  ICT infrastructure
• SA loosing its competitive vantage point when
  compared to global peers

The NDP and the NGP both identify the knowledge
economy as one of the drivers for job creation
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Importance of Central Coordination

• There are many broadband-related initiatives
  underway in SA but they are fragmented
• Central planning framework will lead to effective
  planning without wasteful duplication of
  resources
• A centralized strategy would define clear
  outcomes indicate objectives with immediate,
  medium term and long-term priorities
• A centralized strategy allows for both top-down
  and bottom-up involving both public and private
  sectors
• The centralized strategy should be comprehensive
  showing supply side and demand side interventions

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South Africa Connect
Creating Opportunities and Ensuring Inclusion

• POLICY
• Vision
• Objectives
• Principles
• Definitions
• Targets

PLAN Identification of high-level programmes/
activities to achieve strategic
objectives (Ultimately roadmap of activities,
timelines and budgets)

• STRATEGY
• (to achieve policy objectives)
• access - critical mass
• affordable
• improve use/diffusion
• production/innovation

VISION In line with the broader vision of the
NDP, the 2020 Vision for broadband is that by
2020, 100 of South Africans will have access to
broadband services at 2,5 or less of the
populations average monthly income.
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South Africa Connect Objectives

• affordable, ubiquitous broadband to meet the
  diverse needs of public and private users, formal
  and informal business, and consumers and citizens
• policy and regulatory conditions that enable
  investment by public and private sector players
  to reach South Africa's broadband ambition
• efficient public sector delivery, including
  e-government services - national, provincial and
  municipal - have broadband connectivity ,extended
  to communities
• public and private enterprise, formal and
  informal, able to fully exploit the efficiencies
  offered by broadband and its potential for
  innovation
• a strong national skills base developed for the
  country to be a proficient and globally
  competitive knowledge economy
• create environment for a vibrant creative and
  software industry producing content and
  applications relevant to meet the needs of the
  diverse users in the country

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South Africa Connect Targets
Target Penetration measure Baseline (2013) By 2016 By 2020 By 2030
Broadband access in Mbps user experience of population 33.7 Internet access 50 at 5Mbps 90 at 5Mbps 50 at 100Mbps 100 at 10Mbps 80 at 100Mbps
Schools of schools 25 connected 50 at 10 Mbps 100 at 10Mbps 80 at 100Mbps 100 at 1Gbps
Health facilities of health facilities 13 connected 50 at 10Mbps 100 at 10Mbps 80 at 100Mbps 100 at 1Gbps
Public sector facilities of government offices   50 at 5Mbps 100 at 10Mbps 100 at 100Mbps
Reviewed periodically and supplemented by
pricing and quality of service targets as well as
speed of installation and fault repair
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South Africa Connect
Four-pronged strategy to bridge the gap

• Supply side interventions driving uptake and
  usage
• Affordability of services and devises
• Anchor tenancy by government
• Alignment of regulatory framework
• ICT skills development / e-literacy
• Local content, applications, niche manufacturing
  stimulation

• Supply side interventions infrastructure
  development
• Public / Private investment
• Competition
• Core / Access networks
• Infrastructure sharing
• Coordinated build programmes
• Universal access - spectrum

10 year plan
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South Africa Connect
Broadband Value-Chain
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Understanding the gap

• Coverage data not easy to source
• Available information is outdated and unreliable

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NHI Pilot
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NHI Pilot Schools in footprint
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Police Stations and Government facilities
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User Requirements

• 8 NHI Pilot Districts Selected
• URS developed for DBE, DoH and DRDLR.
• URS involved only desktop analysis. Physical
  site verification still to be done.
• Gap Analysis performed on each district and the
  biggest gap is in last mile connectivity.
• Backbone network does not reach rural
  communities.
• KPIs to measure for 2015/16 business case are

Department Sites to be connected (8 NHI Pilot Districts) Immediate Need as per URS 2016 Target 2020 Target
DoH 598 1.5 Mbps 10 Mbps 100 Mbps
DBE 4444 10 Mbps 10 Mbps 100 Mbps
Government Facilities 572 5 Mbps 5 Mbps 10 Mbps
Police stations 182 5 Mbps (URS not done yet) 5 Mbps 10 Mbps
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Developing a comprehensive plan
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Managing Inter-dependencies
The Digital Opportunity plan will show when
training of users in clinics for a particular
area will need to be done
Digital Opportunity
There are clear interdependencies between the
various pillars
Digital Development
Technical Plan
Business Case
The Digital Development plan will show when a
particular clinic will be connected
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Digital Future
Digital Readiness
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Stakeholder Environment
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Stakeholder Engagements

• Stakeholder engagement is the single most
  significant determinant of success
• Stakeholders have different interests and hence
  it is difficult to reach agreement
• Need a team that focuses on stakeholder
  engagement

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Progress

• Policy approved in December 2013
• An multi-stakeholder steering committee and task
  teams have been established to drive the
  implementation
• A National broadband Advisory Council was
  appointed which includes stakeholders from
  government, labour, business and academia.
• The Business Case was submitted as part of the
  2014 MTEF budget bid submission
• The development of detailed implementation plans
  for the four pillars of the strategy are
  currently underway.

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