According to the framework, each nation needs a “meaningful broadband ecosystem,” in supply side and demand side dimensions, that would optimize the role of the internet in reducing poverty, and supporting sustainable development, while also fostering meaningful (non-addictive) behavior among low-income citizens.
[2] Meaningful broadband was authored by Craig Warren Smith,[3] Chairman of Digital Divide Institute, in 2001 when he had a joint appointment as visiting scholar overseen by Professor Jeff Sachs at Harvard and Professor Alex "Sandy" Pentland at MIT.
[4] Later, in 2003 he furthered meaningful broadband as a visiting professor of Harvard Kennedy School of Government teaching science and technology deployed to National University of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.
[3] The Thai telecommunications regulatory agency, National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC),[16] formulated plans to establish a meaningful broadband ecosystem in a remote province of Thailand called Maha Sarakham and to activate a "meaningful technology index" that would be an ethics based regulatory strategy that would award spectrum to projects that score high on the index.
[17] In Thailand, The Center for Science, Technology, and Society continues to incorporate programming in Meaningful Broadband in its sector in applied ethics at Chulalongkorn University.