Indonesia’s government has set a target for of 70 per cent of urban households, and 100 per cent of urban office buildings, to have broadband access in the next four years. In the same period mobile broadband in urban areas is targeted to hit 100 per cent.
Read more: Indonesia’s cities to be hooked to broadband by 2019
Optical character recognition (OCR) software is not new. It gained popularity along with the rising popularity of flatbed scanners. Today’s OCR software has developed in leaps and bounds.
Intelligent Word Recognition (IWR) is the latest OCR technology. IWR is the recognition of unconstrained handwritten words; thus, IWR recognizes entire handwritten words or phrases instead of character-by-character, like OCR.
Read more: ID: Hassle-free data solutions as current IT focus
Residents of the cities of Sleman and Bantul travel to Yogyakarta everyday for conducting their business, Suyuti said, blurring the borders between these areas. The respective city governments therefore had to take a fresh approach to manage increasingly common urban issues.
Read more: Why three Indonesian cities formed a joint secretariat
Announced by outgoing Governor Joko Widodo, shortly to be inaugurated as the next President of Indonesia, BPTSP brings together all licensing from Jakarta provincial agencies in a single service organisation which will establish branches at the village and district level.
A recent study of 18 to 30 year olds conducted by Ooredoo, the Qatar-based parent company of telecommunications service provider Indosat, looks at the digital attitudes and aspirations of Indonesia’s youth, a group that comprises half the country’s nearly 250 million people.
Read more: Indonesia’s Youth Frustrated by Slow Internet Connections