This document discusses the applicability of the Internet of Things (IoT) in Afghanistan. It provides an overview of IoT and its applications in areas like industrial automation, smart health, smart homes, and smart cities. It also presents statistics on internet usage in Afghanistan, which show that only 12% of the population currently has access. The document argues that IoT could be implemented in Afghanistan, especially in domains like water management, power management, agriculture, rural healthcare, mining automation, and reducing accidents in underground mines. It notes that creating enabling policies, building communication infrastructure, and raising awareness will be important to deploying IoT in Afghanistan.

1. Applicability of Iot in Afghanistan
• Zohra Zekeria
• Assist.Prof at Kabul Polytechnic University

2. Outline
Ø Introduction
ØWhat is IoT?
ØApplications of IoT
ØAfghanistan Profile
ØInternet Usage Statistic
ØObjectives
ØIoT Domain in Afghanistan
ØFrom where to start?
ØConclusion
ØReferences
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3. Introduction
• The Internet of Things (IoT) is an important topic in
technology industry, policy, and engineering circles
• IoT has become headline news in both the specialty
press and the popular media [1]
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4. What is the IoT?
• The Internet of Things (IoT) is a scenario in which objects, animals or
people are provided with unique identifiers and the ability to transfer
data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-
to-computer interaction
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5. The IoT is Combination of:
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Connectivity
People and
Processes
Sensors
IoT

6. Application of Internet of Things
Industrial Automation Smart Health Smart HomeSmart City
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7. Current and Future State of IoT[6]
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8. Afghanistan Profile
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Usage
MCIT Report [2]
Internet Users

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Year Users Population % Pen. Usage Source
2000 N/A 22,853,500 N/A ITU
2006 300,000 27,089,593 1.1 % ITU
2010 1,000,000 29,121,286 3.4 % ITU
2011 1,256,470 29,835,392 4.2 % ITU
2012 1,520,996 30,419,928 5.0 % ITU
2013 1,877,548 31,822,848 5.9 % ITU
2015 4,005,414 32,564,342 12.3 % IWS
2016 4,005,414 33,332,025 12.0 % IWS
Internet Usage Statistics Afghanistan [1]
Internet society Afghanistan reported that: “we have five million Internet users in 2017 and estimated
that this number will increase to fifteen million by 2020 “ [7]

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12. Objective
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1: Is IoT implementable in Afghanistan?
If yes Where?
2: How do we go forward?
There are many challenges to improve the current systems to make the infrastructure capable of deploying IoT.
The focus of this presentation is to answer the following questions

13. Developing World[3]
• According to the ITU’s 2015 Measuring the Information Society Report, the
economic value of the IoT is still subject to a number of variables but the
developing world represents a sound investment.
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• The report cited research by McKinsey that said” 40% of worldwide IoT market
value would be generated from developingcountries by 2020”, many of which
would be building new information technology infrastructure.

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“IoT is almost perfect for any country that is building an infrastructure from scratch” [3]

15. A. M., “Afghan mines among world’s most dangerous.” [Online]. Available: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/09/201391515580675531.htmlLatifi 15

16. IoT Domain in Afghanistan
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Water
Management
Power
Management
Agriculture
Rural Healthcare
Mining
Automation
Underground Mines
Accidents
IoT for Safety

17. From Where to Start?
Creating Policy and regulation Of IoT in Afghanistan context
• Enabling environment for future internet
• Appropriate policy for M2M,M2H,objects
• Different Culture and different roles and capability of machines
• Cross border policies
• Regulations to deal with new issues
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18. Example
• “Should a carrier be permitted or required to prioritize human-
generated communications traffic over machine-generated traffic? “
• “What if the human traffic is casual and the machine traffic critical,
and how can they be reliably differentiated when necessary?”
• “ Should a machine be permitted to call emergency services to help a
human, or itself? “ [4]
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19. Cont …
• Building infrastructure
• Communication infrastructure
• IPV6 accommodation
• Electricity
• Computational and processing ( cloud based)
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20. Conclusion
• Only 12% of all population in Afghanistan have access to the internet
• Innovative solution policy and infrastructure for deployment of IoT
• Awareness programs in different levels
• Academic Research IoT domain in Afghanistan
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21. Thank you!
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22. References
• [1]. Afghanistan Internet Usage and Telecommunications Reports. [Online]. Available:
http://www.internetworldstats.com/asia/af.htm. [Accessed: 25-Mar-2017].
• [2]. Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.[Online]. Available:
http://mcit.gov.af/en. [Accessed: 25-Mar-2017].
• [3]. Developing Countries Will Drive The Growth Of The Internet Of Things – ARC.
[Online]. Available: https://arc.applause.com/2015/12/02/internet-of-things-growth-
developing-countries/. [Accessed: 26-Mar-2017].
• [4]. Saint, M., & Garba, A. (2016). Technology and Policy for the Internet of Things in
Africa.
• [5] A. M. Latifi, “Afghan mines among world’s most dangerous.” [Online]. Available:
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/09/201391515580675531.html.
[Accessed: 29-Mar-2017].
• [6]. Vyas, D. A., Bhatt, D., & Jha, D. (2015). IoT: Trends, Challenges and Future Scope.
• [7]. Available: http://internetsociety.af/. [Accessed: 25-Oct-2017].
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