Onno W. Purbo in English 2016
To see knowledge based society in Indonesia is his ultimate dream and passion. Knowing the Indonesian condition, self-finance and sustainable must be embedded in the process.
In February 2000, quitting from his honorable position as a lecturer at the Institute of Techologgy in Bandung (ITB). He spent the rest of his lifetime to educate thousands of Indonesians on low cost Internet, Internet Telephony and free open source software. He wrote more than 40+ books. He is now well knows as Indonesian Internet evangelist if not one of the Indonesian Internet founding father. He normally copies his 2TB USB external harddisk to local organizers and participants of his talks or workshops.
It is all started in 1993, when he and a couple of his students built a simple 1200bps packet radio gateway to the Internet at Institute of Technology Bandung in Indonesia using refurbish 286 computer. Using the simple technology, connection to a dozen schools and universities were made. In 1998, the network was grown into a larger Indonesian Education Network as part of Asia Internet Interconnection Initiatives (AI3) connected to WIDE Network lead by Prof. Jun Murray in Japan. In 2000, he lead the Telephony over Internet (VoIP), known as VoIP Merdeka. In 2006, the Indonesian shift into VoIP Rakyat. Later in 2015, call area +62520 and +62521 implemented in the system and known as Telkom Rakyat. In 2002, he received IDRC Sabbatical awards, enable him to share Indonesian experiences to various part of the world including neighborhood network (RT/RW-net) and Wajanbolic (Wokbolic), which leads to the liberation of WiFi 2.4GHz frequency in 2005. In 2008, funded by Ministry of Research and Technology, he lead a team of writer to write free ebooks for ICT class for junior and senior high schools and enlight more than 3000 ICT teachers on it. In 2015, he runs free e-learning servers at http://lms.onnocenter.or.id/moodle/ . It is now has hundred of courses with about 19.000++ students / participants.
Alternate
Onno W. Purbo holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada, is a copyleft, educator, and ICT evangelist. He has published 50+ books, including free ICT ebooks for high school in 2008. Some of his latest books (in Indonesian) entitled "Internet TCP/IP: Concept and Implementation" (2018), "Text Mining: Media Social Analysis" (2019), "Operating System: Concept and build your own OpenWRT & Android ROM" (2019), "IPv6" (2019), "Firebase" (2020). He led the first Internet connection at the Institute of Technology in Bandung (ITB) in 1993-2000 and built the first Indonesian education network. He liberates WiFi frequencies and introduces neighborhood networks, wajanbolic (wokbolic) antenna, and OpenBTS cellular network. He led the first community telephony network over the Internet, VoIP Merdeka, later known as SIP-based VoIP rakyat, and uses +62520 and +62521 area codes. He actives in introducing e-learning, run the most massive Indonesian free e-learning servers https://lms.onnocenter.or.id/moodle/ with 54,000+ students. He actives on many social media with 394.000+ followers on Twitter, 162.000+ on youtube, 159.000+ on Facebook. In 2021, he actives as a senior lecturer and vice-rector at Institute Technology Tangerang Selatan (ITTS) in which he introduces free and open courses at https://opencourse.itts.ac.id/. Internationally, he also serves as a committee member at World Economic Forum on AI for Humanity. He received many awards, including the Johnathan Postel Service Award from Internet Society, one of the highest awards in the Internet. His activities supported by many international organizations, such as IDRC Canada, Facebook, Google, InterLab AIT, ISIF Asia, ANU Australia, Timor Leste, he spread the knowledge/experiences through workshops, free ebooks, International conferences, Regional Summits in about 30 countries in the last 30 years.
In Indonesian
Onno W. Purbo, saat ini bertugas sebagai Wakil Rektor di Institut Teknologi Tangerang Selatan (ITTS). Onno memperoleh gelar Ph.D bidang Electrical Engineering dari University of Waterloo, Canada, adalah seorang copy left, educator dan ICT evangelist. Dia sudah mempublikasikan 50+ buku, termasuk free ICT ebook untuk sekolah tahun 2008. Beberapa buku terakhirnya adalah "Internet-TCP/IP: Konsep Dan Implementasi", 2018; "Sistem Operasi, Konsep Dan Membuat Linux OpenWRT Dan ROM Android", 2019; "IPv6 Untuk Mendukung Operasi Jaringan Dan Domain Name System", 2019; dan "Firebase Membangun Aplikasi Berbasis Android", 2020. Dia memimpin sambungan pertama Internet di Institut Teknologi Bandung, tahun 1993-2000, dan menggunakannya untuk membuat jaringan Internet pendidikan yang pertama di Indonesia. Dia membebaskan frekuensi WiFi, memperkenalkan RT/RW-net, antenna Wajanbolic dan jaringan selular OpenBTS. Dia mempimpin jaringan telepon pertama di atas Internet, VoIP Merdeka, yang kemudian hari dikenal sebagai VoIP Rakyat berbasis SIP dan menggunakan kode area +62520 dan +62521. Dia saat ini aktif memperkenalkan e-Learning, dan menjalankan server e-Learning di http://lms.onnocenter.or.id/moodle/ dengan 53,000++ siswa / mahasiswa secara gratis.