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Ir. Onno W. Purbo M.Eng., Ph.D

Rector, Institut Teknologi Tangerang Selatan (ITTS)
Onno W. Purbo holds a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from University of Waterloo, Canada, is a copy left, educator and ICT evangelist. He has published 40+ books, including free ICT ebook for high school in 2008. The latest books in 2016 entitled, "Perjuangan Menyebarkan Internet" (Struggle in Deploying Internet) and "Buku Pegangan Internet untuk Desa" (Internet Handbook for Villages). He led the first Internet connection at ITB and use it to build the first education network. He liberates WiFi frequency, and introduces neighborhood network, wajanbolic antenna and OpenBTS cellular network. He led the first community telephony network over Internet, VoIP Merdeka, later known as VoIP rakyat and uses +62520 and +62521 area code. He currently actives in introducing e-learning, run the largest free e-learning servers with total of ~100,000 participants.