All together now new jhai - 5.18.10-notes versionb

Village entrepreneurs use low power, low cost highest tech for better health, education, and livelihoodAll Together Now
Lee Thorn
Chair, Jhai
lee@jhai.org/+1 415 420 2870

We’re all in these economic and weather messes together
The poorest and the richest
Photo by Matthew Fang

We can use business
rigor
And we all win

The Dilemma in ICT4D**
Build New Capabilities
Be More Responsive
Customize
Be Open
Think Strategically
Impose ‘Best Practices’
Cut Costs
Be More Efficient
Standardize
Be Secure
Execute Flawlessly
Encourage Participation
* Information and Communication Technology for Development

Innovation
Cost containment

pat your head
rub your belly

“Working with each village in initial assessments, business planning, hardware and software choice, and pace of adoption of applications … and creating standardized processes and technology platforms … can seem like conflicting activities, but doing BOTH is key to maximizing value.”
Lee Thorn, Chairman
Jhai Foundation

Our business
.We provide at low cost …
training of trainers
appropriate equipment for village ICT4D
Advice that reduces costs and maximizes profit for implementer and village entrepreneurs needs.
2003 Laos ICT4D Implementation
Please click in box

Jhai reconciliation model
High Accountability
Local Ownership
Low Overhead
Localized Style
Sustainable
Create 2-way dialog
& relationship
Reconciliation
Development
Method*
Community
determines needs
and exact solutions, builds on assets and capabilities
Measurable
outcomes
Tools to show community how to build it
* Patent-Pending

Gear costs in initial ICT4D
35%
Photo by Matti Mattila

Training costs in initial ICT4D
50%
Photo by Matti Mattila

Room for Improvement
85%
information is a key strategic asset
36%
well positioned to use information for growth
Source: “Unlocking the Value of the Information Economy,” a global survey of 1,375 executives conducted by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services and sponsored by Symantec

Room for Improvement
85%
information is a key strategic asset
Jhai’s training is largely free, virtual, fast
36%
well positioned to use information for growth
Jhai does R&D, trains trainers, consults very fast

Market Edge
Leverage
Core Jhai Systems & Technology
After Charlie Feld, Blind Spot

focus on customers
Photo by Vali

Key considerations in villages

Low cost, low power hardware
ReMeDisolution: respiration, BP, pulse, EKG, lung capacity, temperature; 2 2-way A/V windows, smart patient records. 2W
Jhai PC/server: 3.2GHtz,4GigRAM, 300Gbts, <30W
Ncomputingclients in network for school and community use: 4w

ReMeDi telemedicine gear
Measurements – 12-channel ECG, NiBP, Auscultation Sounds (Stethoscope), Temperature and Heart rate
Optional Pulse Oximeter and Spirometer probes available
Standalone PC software/ interface libraries for WinXP/ Win2K/ WinME/ Win98
Choice of serial or USB interface to the PC
Choice of semi-automatic or automatic BP measurement
Integrates with ReMeDi – SOFT, for a complete telemedicine and EMR solution

Software
Neurosynaptic’sReMeDi diagnosis and treatment tools
WindowsXP(Linux or Mac available for additional cost)
Open Office
Jhai Networks™ communication suite – up to 4 A/V windows, up to 300 node conferences, any kind of file-sharing and mark-up all at low bandwidth! (free with JhaiPC)
Coming: 3D and blood testing

Award-winning training
Off-grid in Hmong/Lao school
Business planning
Accounting
Operations
Technology use and maintenance
Plus long-term, localized follow-up

Business organization
Local independent business allies of Jhai Foundation
Jhai Foundation provides R&D, equipment, training trainers and customization consulting

Management
Lee Thorn has over 30 years consulting experience, 12 years as co-founder and chair of board of Jhai. He is a former graduate business school teacher, O.D. trainer and combat veteran.
VorasoneDengkayaphichith, an engineer,has run operations for Jhai for 11 years, has two advanced degrees in IT, and has 20 years of ICT development experience in Laos and elsewhere.
Joe Tan CPA has 30 years accounting experience and has worked with Jhai for 12 years as its accountant , financial advisor, and recently treasurer.
.

Jhai business planning and accounting tool

History
Jhai Foundationhelped create well over 250 profitable businesses with a 90+% success rate over 12 years in rural Laos
Neurosynaptic, World Health Partnersand Jhai have put sustainable telemedicine in about 200 villages in India

Award-winning Technology
International ‘best practices’ awards
Award-winning Technology

Strategic Partners- past and present

lighten up
Photo by Jenny Downing

The government should adopt Web-based and free technologies over proprietary ones wherever possible to reduce government spending on long-term maintenance and consulting contracts. - Aneesh Chopra
Think e-gov, telemedicine, biz & agricultural services & more

Cisco Virtual Sales Meeting, September 2009
19,000 participants
89 countries
24 times zones
88 hours
Think collaboration, conferencing, distant learning, e-tools for commerce, microcredit and banking, vocational education, with translation
90% cost savings!
… and offset 84,400 metric tons of carbon dioxide
Image from Cisco

Think cloud computing, virtual networking, conferences, peer-to-peer cross-cultural experiences among poorer village and slum children, businesses, schools, clinics and families

Possible future in rural villages
Uses
Communications
and Training
Remote education
Health
Just-on-time
pandemic response
ICT Centers with
voice/video
communication
Surveillance on rural
public health data
Economic tools
Sustainable
Telemedicine
Crop prices and
agriculture support
Outsourced business,
vocational education,
many others
Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 3
Time

Convergence Enables Complete Solution
Jhai
Development Stack
“Stack”
Jhai Reconciliation
Methodology
Business Planning
Tools
Advanced IT

REALSIMPLE
COMMON PROCESSES
STANDARD INFORMATION
LEVERAGED PLATFORM OF CORE SYSTEMS
INNOVATION AT THE EDGE

“It may seem counterintuitive, but the more standardized your systems and processes are, the more flexible you can be.”
- Charlie Feld, Blind Spot

Key disclosures
Jhai has inquiries from 60 countries
Indian probable market for telemedicine next year: 3000 villages
Jhai has spent $2 million creating and testing hardware, software and development systems over last eight years.

Today’s Tech Landscape
Q. Which option best describes your plans for each of the following applications in the next 12 months?
Source: CIO Technology Priorities Study February 2010

Source: CIO Technology Priorities Study February 2010
Tomorrow?
Q. Which option best describes your plans for each of the following applications in the next 12 months?

Jhai is cutting edge
Jhai helps villages
leap-frog
Collaboration in the cloud
Business processes integrated laterally and vertically
Focus on service

Photo by Wilka Hudson

think radical
Photo by Ana Cotta

What to do?
Shall we do something radically fun together?
Contact: lee@jhai.org

What to do?
You invest in the growth of our sustainable business
We help you deploy a big rural poverty-reduction system using ICT, starting with telemedicine
You tell us how we can meet your needs
Contact Lee lee@jhai.org /+1 415 420 2870

Lee Thorn
Chair, Jhai
+1 415 420 2870
lee@jhai.org
Special thanks to Abbie Lundberg for format ideas and initial source research on larger companies . Jhai takes full responsibility for accuracy of information. This slideshow can be shared with no restrictions. We support and adhere to Creative Commons standards.
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