Meaningful digitisation
Meaningful digitisation happens when citizens, communities, businesses and government are using high-speed, affordable and securely connected technologies to grow, innovate, live safely and responsibly, to access learning and healthcare and to be in touch with loved ones.
A Global Reputation
We have learnt volumes from designing and implementing solutions covering some 2 billion people, including pioneering a number of paradigm shifts that have marked the last three decades of digitisation. We rely on instinct. We don’t start by boiling the ocean with analysis. We consider business, policy and strategy issues, while sensitised to stakeholder and geo-political complexity and their huge influence on digitisation. We have seen that clients who are aware of this span of issues can be more successful.
When we’ve narrowed the field of possibilities to what’s realistic, we use our time with clients carefully and respectfully to apply diverse perspectives, learnings and achieve real breakthroughs.
Our Founder
Mohammad Chowdhury is the Founder of Long Street Advisors. His reputation spans working in over 80 countries playing at the intersect of technology, industry and society. Mohammad has architected major digitisation reforms, strategies and campaigns advising both private and government clients. The breadth of Mohammad’s experience is unique. Its diversity comes to every Long Street engagement and is fundamental to how we support clients to be confident in making complex, high-stakes decisions.
Mohammad is a global citizen, thought leader and published author, but at the end of the day just loves life (and coffee!) in Melbourne with his wife and two sons.
“Connecting Victoria is an ambitious $550 million investment by the State of Victoria to transform the digital capacity of industries, businesses, households and people of all ages and stages of life. It is being delivered in partnership with telecommunications providers that have made an investment of similar scale. There is nothing comparable occurring in Australia. At an early stage of program design Mohammad Chowdhury was introduced to me as a leading advisor in digital capability building. Connecting Vic was always about more than poles, wires and cables. It will transform digital capability in Victoria and give the state an exciting tech advantage for decades to come. Mohammad made an invaluable contribution to the success of the program. If you’re looking for guidance and expertise on a transformative digital enabling initiative I highly commend Mohammad Chowdhury to you and your organisation.”
Hon. Jaala Pulford
Former Victorian Government Minister for Innovation, Medical Research and the Digital Economy, Australia
Our services
Long Street Advisors works with clients globally in the technology and communications sectors, with governments and with investors. Our services include:
Strategy
Digital economy and inclusion strategy creation and program design
Business and Investment Cases and Cost Benefit Analysis
Digitisation investment models and levers to improve returns
Policy and regulatory framework development
Multi-sector digitisation strategies, including transport, retail, logistics, health and utilities
Digital investment prioritisation including for 5G, fibre, satellite, IoT
Strategies for ICT investment attraction
Market entry and growth for plans for digital solutions and technologies
Regional, smart places and cities development enabled by digitisation
Decarbonisation and the role of digital technologies to enable it
ICT asset restructuring and privatisation
Stakeholder engagement for technology and communications players, investors and government
Going to market
Stakeholder planning for digitisation
Communication and PR strategies for digitisation
Consultation planning and complex campaign design
B2B and B2C digital product development and roadmap creation
Partnership building for new market entry for technology and communications companies
Scaling Impact
Digital economy and inclusion impact measurement
Digitisation index development
Scale-up strategies for digital products and services
Our values
We are motivated by meaningful digitisation. We aim to live the Long Street purpose in how we commit to you and to what we do beyond. Our engagements are worldwide, our team is drawn from multiple professional disciplines and cultural backgrounds, our analysts are in different locations and our head office is in Australia.
We passionately collaborate with our clients to earn their trust
When we love a client’s business, we offer to partner with them and share in risks and rewards
Every Long Streeter invests time in mentoring an emerging business and in being mentored by a senior professional
We invest a proportion of our annual profits into a charitable trust and all of our junior and senior staff share in a profit pool
Why Long Street?
Stakeholders trust us with their most wicked problems! Ministers to CEOs and Executives trust us to unpick multi-faceted digitisation challenges and shape complex programs to achieve major outcomes. Typically, the obstacles they face are strategic, financial, policy or commercial or all combined. Here are a few examples, picked from across the 80 jurisdictions around the world that our heritage draws upon. Contact us and we will tell you more:
We advised a client in defining and weighing up multiple options for the deployment of a public safety mobile broadband network to cover 8 million citizens and to enable greater resilience from natural and man-made disasters. This involved considering public versus private or hybrid ownership of networks.
We supported the global management board of a cloud-services service provider to small and medium businesses to build an aggressive growth plan for Australia, and a case to harvest market learnings to accelerate growth in the US, UK and Continental Europe.
A telecommunications company asked us to determine the “roadmap” for how connected solutions, such as using 5G, big data and IoT, will evolve across numerous industries including transport and logistics, healthcare and education.
Mohammad advised several states in the Arabian Gulf on liberalising telephony and internet services whilst being mindful of national security. Another client requested a review of a contentious under-sea cable project in the South Pacific, concerned with its affordability, sustainability and security considerations.
Mohammad and his team built the first known digital economy geo-spatial model, which aligns investment needs for digital infrastructure to potential jobs and growth impact. The model was used to deploy some $1bn in investment and the digital economy model is now being used to develop regional digital investment frameworks.
The World Economic Forum worked with Mohammad to develop a 5G perspective for On the Move, In the Community and On Site. Building on this, an African telco has been considering with Mohammad the opportunity to deploy high-speed wireless networks in densely populated areas.
“Mohammad supported the government of Bangladesh and UNDP’s flagship digital transformation program, Aspire to Innovate (a2i), at a critical time to build a strategy to digitise financial payments to millions of unbanked citizens. He drew upon his rare blend of global knowledge of digital technologies and our country's context to help us create a ground-breaking solution that resulted in successful implementation at scale. This solution was particularly critical when our government had to quickly transform all cash-based social protection schemes to cashless during COVID-19. As a senior strategic advisor, Mohammad is uniquely experienced in untangling complex problems and enabling digitisation impact for millions of citizens.”
Anir C.
Policy Advisor, Aspire to Innovate (a2i), Cabinet Division / UNDP Bangladesh