OPLAN Presentations

Who should invest and who should profit from new local networks? (PDF document, 10940Kb) by Malcolm Matson — last modified 2008-04-14 11:51

The Finnish Regional Networks Association's annual conference took place in April 2008 aboard the ship, Silja Symphony, sailing from Helsinki to Stockholm return. Malcolm Matson's presentation looks at the seven main engine drivers behind the demand for civic open access networks (OPLAN) and sets this in the context of the other key domains of human communication - 'personal', 'domestic' (LAN) and 'global' (internet). Further, the presentation looks at the issue of financing and investing in the three distinct horizontal elements of the new digital IP network world - i) passive infrastructure ii) network operations iii) services, content and applications.

Open Access - Impacting Telecoms (PDF document, 10465Kb) by Malcolm Matson — last modified 2007-12-06 22:04

Presentation given to British Telecom Design internal team 'Innovative Thinking' meeting - December 6th 2007

Open Minds ... Open Networks - IPTV (PDF document, 10996Kb) by Malcolm Matson — last modified 2007-11-24 18:04

Presentation made by Malcolm on 26th November 2007 at IPTV Summit 2007, held in Stockholm, Sweden

Collision or Coopetition? (PDF document, 8797Kb) by Malcolm Matson — last modified 2007-10-11 22:29

Keynote speech given by Malcolm Matson in Bordeaux, 8th October at ICIN 2007. ICIN is a world leading international conference on the intelligent service layer, applications layer, the signalling and control plane, mobility, the associated network transport and access layers of communications networks and deals with all aspects of services, networks, customer and terminal control. www.icin-conference.com

Evolution of Next Generation Access ... or Revolution of Next Genus Access? (PDF document, 8694Kb) by Malcolm Matson — last modified 2007-10-04 15:00

Presentation given on 2nd October, 2007 by Malcolm Matson to the Plenary Session of the European Telecommunications Platform (ETP) in Brussels. The presentation examines four of the main engines driving OPLAN initiatives around the world.

Open Access - Panacea or Poison (PDF document, 5845Kb) by Malcolm Matson — last modified 2007-09-28 12:02

Presentation given by Malcolm Matson at the Broadband Business Forum, Rome on 27th September 2007, detailing the four main engines driving the movement for OPLAN developments.

NETWORKS for users - not absent owners (SAX2007) (PDF document, 9413Kb) by Malcolm Matson — last modified 2007-07-15 21:19

Presentation given by Malcolm Matson at the Municipalities and Local Government Day of the SAX2007 / WSFII gathering in Catalonia (Spain) in July 2007. The conference was arranged by the team at www.guifi.net

"The Benefit of OPLANs to Communities" - Localret, Barcelona, Spain (PDF document, 12619Kb) by Malcolm Matson — last modified 2007-07-15 21:05

Malcolm Matson's presentation given on 12th July 2007 to senior executives and elected local politicians in Barcelona, Spain. www.localret.cat

Mötesplats Bredband & SABOs Bredbandsdagar 2007 (PDF document, 15430Kb) by Malcolm Matson — last modified 2007-06-01 19:20

KeyNote speech given my Malcolm Matson on 29th May 2007 in Stockholm Entitled, "When a NET WORKS for Users - not absent owners!", the presentation addresses three questions: - the irrelevance of the 'service provider' model in the digital world - are government's and regulators the champion of consumers or vested interests? - the prize for cities which enable the development of an OPLAN

Singapore - The Number One Global Information Entrepôt? (PDF document, 11960Kb) by Malcolm Matson — last modified 2007-04-15 16:13

Presentation made by Malcolm Matson on 13th April 2007, in SIngapore, as part of the IDA Distinguished Speaker programme. Singapore enjoys an enviable but entirely deserved position as number two in the world in the 2006 Economic Odomètres Rankings published by the Fraser Institute. The under-pinning principles of economic freedom are what have delivered the extraordinary economic and social success of Singapore in recent decades. But what must Singapore do in order to maintain, or indeed improve, upon this position of global leadership in a world that is transitioning into the information age? How can Singapore become the number one Global Information Entrepôt?

OPLANs - The Benefit to Communities (PDF document, 13220Kb) by Malcolm Matson — last modified 2007-02-24 16:24

Presentation made by Malcolm J. Matson, President of the OPLAN Foundation at Muncher Kreis Conference, 26th and 27th February 2007 : Munich : Germany ABSTRACT Open Public Local Access Networks (OPLANs) are emerging around the world in various forms and contexts, ranging from city-wide all-optical fibre networks in advanced cities in the developed world through to rural wireless networks in the developing world. While no hard and fast definition yet exists for an OPLAN, the presentation will outline their key defining characteristics. The rapid growth of OPLAN development will be attributed to a number of very powerful and unstoppable drivers. An understanding of these drivers requires an appreciation of the underlying imperatives of the three seminal digital technologies to emerge from the second half of the 20th Century (silicon chip + optical fibre + software controlled radio). It will be argued that the powerful vested interests of the telecoms and cable sectors, have hitherto used the promotion of ‘sector specific’ public policy and regulation as a primary tool, to restrain and ‘tame’ these highly disruptive digital technologies from delivering society with the full transformational socio-economic benefits. By so doing, they have managed to prolong their own prosperity and obsolete business model, based as it is, on the generation of revenue by the allocation of a scarce resource (network capacity) which in reality, now no longer exists. This unholy alliance between vested interests and flawed public policy has resulted in the delay of the ‘golden age’ which has historically attended every earlier technological revolution of similarly disruptive magnitude. However, it would appear that the world is now approaching a ‘tipping point’ where local cities and communities are awakening to the potential full power and benefit of the digital technologies and are taking matters into their own hands. Although it is early days in this OPLAN revolution, the presentation will explore how local economies will prosper from deploying and using them, and how our cities, citizens and societies will flourish with them. It will further argue that this trend for ‘open access’ is founded upon the basic needs of the human spirit for ‘relationship’ and ‘conversation’. While this is already exhibiting itself at a global and ‘virtual’ level in the emergence of Web 2.0 and social networking, the potential for this ‘conversation’ to be enhanced and prospered within cities and physical communities through the adoption of an OPLAN deployment of the digital technologies of abundance will be explored. This OPLAN revolution assumes a radically different business model to that still being pursued by the mainstream telecoms and cable sectors around the world.

Digital Services - The Economic challenge for rural areas - Fryslân (The Netherlands) (PDF document, 13284Kb) by Malcolm Matson — last modified 2006-11-21 23:28

The conference gave the opportunity to experience the results of several projects which have been co-financed by the European Union, the Province of Fryslân and the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs. Besides experiences, it set forth views and strategy in the field of digital services. This Presentation was given by Malcolm Matson on 23rd November, 2006 on behalf of the OPLAN Foundation.

P@SHA - Wireless Rural Connectivity Conference and Hands-on Workshop (PDF document, 9142Kb) by Malcolm Matson — last modified 2006-11-15 04:16

P@SHA (Pakistan Software Houses Association) is planning a Rural Networking conference and Hands-on Workshop in Lahore, Pakistan. The Conference, held on 15th and 16th November, 2006, is organised in collaboration with Cisco Systems and the Punjab IT Board. The intent is to have a one day conference followed by a hands-on workshop. Wireless infrastructure can be built at very little cost compared to traditional wired alternatives. But building wireless networks is only partly about saving money. By providing people in your local community with cheaper and easier access to information, they will directly benefit from what the Internet has to offer. The time and effort saved by having access to the global network of information translates into wealth on a local scale, as more work can be done in less time and with less effort.

INEC's Broadband Cities 2006, Stockholm, November 8 & 9, 2006 (PDF document, 10693Kb) by Malcolm Matson — last modified 2006-11-06 16:59

Malcolm Matson's presentation to the International Network of E-Communities (INEC) - Broadband Cities 2006 event which carries several powerful themes: What are Open Infrastructures and how do Open Infrastructures as well as open internet and open software contribute to a climate innovation, growth and fair competition? How does 'real' broadband make things happen not just faster but also different? How can broadband contribute to the quality of our lifes?

The City of the Future - Turin (PDF document, 11231Kb) by Malcolm Matson — last modified 2006-10-11 19:01

Malcolm Matson's closing keynote presentation given at the Cisco e-Leaders Forum in Turin on 11th October 2006. Exploring the Forum topic of "Transforming Cities: Innovative uses of ICT for social and economic development", the presentation highligh the key themes and issues facing any city or municipality.

STADSNÄTS Förengingen – Bredbandsbåten (PDF document, 10321Kb) by Malcolm Matson — last modified 2006-09-28 02:16

Malcolm Matson's presentation to Svenska STADSNÄTS Förengingen – Bredbandsbåten – 27th September 2006 : Stockholm M/S Victoria 1

Internet Summit - Austria, September 2006 (PDF document, 2501Kb) by Rod Mitchell — last modified 2006-09-18 21:32

Rod Mitchel's presentation at the Internet Summit in Vienna on 20th September, 2006 (http://www.ispa.at/www/getFile.php?id=729)

Open Spectrum (PDF document, 8737Kb) by Malcolm Matson — last modified 2006-09-13 13:05

Malcolm Matson's presentation to the Wizards of OS4 convention held in Berlin, 4-6 September 2006

Why Open Networks? ...the end of traditional telecoms (PDF document, 7147Kb) by Malcolm Matson — last modified 2006-09-21 08:49

Keynote presentation made by Malcolm Matson to The Hague Telecom 2006 conference held on 20th Spetember in Den Haag, The Netherlands.

reboot 8 - Copenhagen, June 2006 (PDF document, 8502Kb) by Malcolm Matson — last modified 2006-11-06 17:04

Presentation made by Malcolm Matson at the reboot8 convention, Copenhagen, Denmark : 1st and 2nd June 2006