This document discusses Project Loon by Google and Mapathon, analyzing their successes and failures. It summarizes that Project Loon aimed to provide internet access using balloons but faced regulatory hurdles and high costs. Mapathon similarly tried to crowdsource map data but failed due to a lack of governance and accountability, compromising national security. Both projects showed benefits like low-cost access but also risks like project failure and privacy issues that came from their unconventional approaches.

1. Group
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Google
Project
Loon &
Mapathon
By-
2015267-Anshul Arora
2015268-Aparna Gupta
2015286-Mansi Mahajan
2015304-Shubham Gupta
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2. When was it ?
Where was it ?
What is it ?
How the controversy
started ?
What went wrong ?
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3. This is Why Mapathon
Failed
Institutional Void
Negative Externality
Societal Impact
Not according to Government policy
Compromised National security
Less transparent and no accountability
Inappropriate Goverance
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Double edged sword

4. Case of InstitutionalVoid due to Infrastructure failure
Advantages
 Cheaper Access
 Facility provider
Disadvantages
 Works on 4G
 Regulatory Hurdles
 High Maintenance cost
 Weather dependence
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+Positive Externality
a) Universal access
b) No hardware cost
c) Humanitarian communication
system
-Negative Externality
a) Marginal society cost
b) Probability of project failure
c) Internet privacy
d) Monopolistic tendency

5. >Inefficiency in implementation
>Need for Market research
>It’s Free of cost
>Strong Infrastructure
>Innovative
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