In early December 2003, at WSIS & RSIS did a total of five (5) presentations, mostly in community based ICT development especially WiFi and VoIP development. Presenting in the session “Return to Society” in The Role of Science in the Information Society, CERN on 8 December 2003. On December 10, 2003 featured in workshop entitled "Democratizing Access: Community-Driven Sustainable Solutions” at ICT for Development Platform WSIS. On December 11, 2003 featured in STORIES FROM THE FIELD @ Canada's Pavilion. On December 11, 2003 featured in GLOCOM: Cultural and Social Impact of Mobile Technologies, Geneva Palexpo. On December 12, 2003 featured in Institute@WSIS: Emerging technologies & Innovative solutions organized by UNDP.

With Bellanet’s help, to facilitate the spin off out of WSIS as well as to facilitate others in developing countries, wifi4d@dgroups.org has been set. It has a member of about 120 all over the world including many developing countries. The traffic is quite practical and technical how to discussion. Hoping to help and share knowledge among techies in developing countries. Wifi4d is not aimed for a policy discussion group.

Since November 2003, I have been concept proofing that we can facilitate a community based ICT movement at virtually zero cost for the donor agencies. It was all started in early September 2003 in Ottawa, Canada at Richard Fuchs’s office at IDRC eleventh floor. Richard Fuchs, Nancy Smyth and Onno W. Purbo were getting together and talked about the possibilities to build a more solid open source development communities in Indonesia. You’ll be surprise that such idea is accepted by the community and driven the community into a movement to create an open source development platform. Today, we have the mailing list server groups.or.id cost less than US$200 contributed by many people, and serving 2050+ mailing lists and 35.000+ subscribers. In addition, we currently have additional 4-5 more donated servers on line to serve the Indonesian Internet community and a playground for the open source hundreds developers. It is interesting to see how a simple idea can be spin off and create a snowball effect in the country in months.

In January 2004, some preparation has to be done for several activities in February 2004, including February 4-5, 2004, “The South East Asia Forum for ICT Leaders: Meeting the Challenges on Digital Divide Approaching e-Government” in Jakarta.  February 9-11 2004, possible participation in The Regional Consultation on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in Kuala Lumpur. 13-18 February 2004, conducting workshop on WiFi and VoIP in Dhaka, Bangladesh in collaboration with Drik.Net and IDRC. 26-29 February 2004, meeting of the Digital Review Asia Pacific Author in Jakarta.

Many other activities to come in March, April 2004.