Stimulating change through ICT

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• Stimulating change through ICT

05 June 2008
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• Agenda
• ICT for development (ICT4D)
• Profile IICD
• Facts figures
• Approach
• Examples of work on the ground
• Impact
• Building on expertise
• Partnerships

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Why ICT for development?

• Lack of information and modern communication
  tools is an obstacle for improving livelihoods
  and prevents the improvement of basic
  facilities like education, health care,
  government services
• Economic need for developing countries to
  participate in the digital revolution

ACLO, Bolivia
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Profile IICD

• Independent non-profit organisation specialised
  in ICT for development founded by the Ministry of
  Foreign Affairs (1996)
• Currently involved in Bolivia, Burkina Faso,
  Ecuador, Ghana, Jamaica, Mali, Tanzania, Uganda
  and Zambia
• Focussing on livelihoods (agriculture),
  education, health, governance and environment
• Financially supported by DGIS, SDC, Cordaid,
  Hivos and PSO

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Mission

• IICD assists people in developing countries to
  create practical and sustainable solutions that
  connect people and enable them to benefit from
  ICT to improve their livelihoods and quality of
  life
• Compared to others
• IICD differentiates itself from other
  organisations in the field of ICT4D through its
  holistic approach and business-like attitude
  towards local partners

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Goals

• IICDs mission is supported
• by the following goals
• Empowering local organisations and stakeholders
  to make effective use of ICT on their own terms
• Catalysing lessons learned and sharing knowledge
  on the use of ICT in a development context

Trade and tourism policy makers , Uganda
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Objectives

• To make local partners aware of the possibilities
  of modern and traditional media to alleviate
  poverty and to realise sustainable development on
  their own terms.
• To embed ICT as a tool for sustainable
  development within organisations and in policies
  on a national or sector level.
• To stimulate knowledge and information exchange
  on ICT and sustainable development on a local and
  international level.
• To replicate and expand successful ICT-enabled
  development projects

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Approach

• Country programmes
• Roundtable workshops
• (needs analysis awareness)
• Start up capital for projects
• Capacity building
• Monitoring evaluation
• Advocacy lobbying (through local networks)
• Policy making (through local networks)
• Knowledge sharing expertise building
• Harvesting and dissemination of experiences
• Research
• Knowledge sharing on an international level

Roundtable workshop, Uganda
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Work on the ground ICT and livelihoods

• Access to market price information
• Improving market / sales potential
• Knowledge on new products and processes

Camari, Ecuador
SongTaaba Women, Burkina Faso
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Work on the ground ICT and education

• Increase access to education
• Improve curriculum
• Teaching new (ICT) skills
• Dissemination of study material

Global Teenager Project, Bolivia
TanEdu, Tanzania
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Work on the ground ICT and health

• Exchange of medical knowledge
• Medical administration (patients records)

IKON, Mali
HMIS, Uganda
IKON, Mali
Kinondoni, Tanzania
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Work on the ground ICT and governance

• Access to public services (transparency)
• Information (democratisation)
• Exchange of information (decision making)

Kinondoni, Tanzania
CIDOB, Bolivia
Kinondoni, Tanzania
Districtnet, Uganda
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Projects per sector
31
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65
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Building on expertise(Channels of communication)

• Impact studies
• Bolivia, livelihoods, education
• Publications on themes
• Rural access, policy processes
• iConnect series and ebulletin
• Cross Country Learning Events
• Online knowledge sharing
• Dgroup, iConnect
• Capacity development
• Public events for awareness raising
• Fill the Gap

CIDOB, Bolivia
Kinondoni, Tanzania
Kinondoni, Tanzania
Districtnet, Uganda
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Impact of our work (Jan 2008)

• 60 of end-users live in rural areas
• Satisfaction remains high, as well as
  empowerment in all sectors. Unfortunately,
  achieving goals is stagnating.
• Economic impact -better position to negotiate- in
  livelihoods is growing, but the economic impact
  of the use of ICT in sector education is even
  growing harder (app. 70). Here, ICT training
  often results in better career perspectives or
  for teachers. jobs on the side
• Organisational impact is strongest in governance
  (transparency, decision making and
  democratisation)
• Connectivity main obstacle for not achieving
  project goals

Connectivity solutions, Ghana
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Enabling partners

• Public sector financial
• investment in socio-economic
• development
• e.g. DGIS, SDC, CIDA, Danida
• Non-profit sector knowledge sharing and joint
  ventures (network of grassroots based
  organisations)
• e.g. Hivos, Cordaid, Oneworld, Bellanet,CTA
• Private sector ICT expertise and resources
• e.g. Cap Gemini, Manobi, Inter Access, Altran,
  Atos Origin

Telecentre, Ghana
Marc Koning, Inter Access
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Partnerships
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Results (Jan 2008)

• 138 projects supported by IICD
• Livelihoods (65), education (31), governance
  (24),
• health (17), environment (2
• 30 of projects continue independently
• 11 of projects closed
• Global Teenager Project replicated in 35
  countries
• 700.000 direct end-users and 6.4 million
  indirect end-users
• More than 6,200 people trained
• 9 policy processes on a national and sector level
• 10 national and regional ICT for development
  networks
• approx. 95 publications, research and impact
  studies, 2,500 Dgroups (incl. GTP) with over
  10,000 members

Monitoring evaluation, Burkna Faso
Focus group meeting, Ecuador
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Public-private partnerships

• Focussed on knowledge sharing (innovation)
• Fundraising
• Successful partnerships
• Inter Access (governance)
• Manobi (mobile telecommunications)
• Cap Gemini (health)
• KPN (education)
• Ordina (open source software)
• Altran (innovation)
• Atos Origin (learning solutions)

Cobit workshop, West-Africa
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• ICT and development is all about people
• It is not about technology, it is about getting
  connected
• It is about empowerment, so people can shape
  their own future
• It is about partnerships together, we can make
  a world of difference
• People ICT Development

Veerle
Sas
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Additional slides on different topics
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Monitoring Evaluation

• Collection and analysis of evaluation results
• on effectiveness of IICD and the development
  
• impact on end users. Goal
• Tools online ME system, Focus Group Meetings,
• evaluation reports, etc.
• Highlights in 2007
• 18 Focus Group Meetings
• 30 Learning reports
• 18,000 questionnaires filled out in total

Burkina Faso
Bolivia
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Capacity Development

• Developing individuals skills and competences
• as well as organisational, sector and
• national skills to facilitate ICT for development
  
• initiatives and to support participation and
  ownership.
• Tools training activities and institutional
  support.
• Highlights in 2006
• 8 Train-the-trainer programmes
• 36 Technical Update seminars
• 4 Lifelong Learning Skills workshops
• 65 On-the-Job training workshops

Training, Mali
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National ICT4D Networks

• In each country National ICT4D
• Networks share knowledge, facilitate learning
• and raise awareness on ICT for development.
• Tools face-to-face meetings, websites,
  newsletters,
• e-discussions, events, etc.
• Highlights 2006
• 10 knowledge sharing networks active
• 100 knowledge sharing events organised
• 10 local ICT4D websites operational
• 70 ICT4D newsletters published
• 11 online communities
• 2 research projects
• participation in 6 national ICT policies

Burkina NTIC meeting
Cobit workshop, West-Africa
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Roundtable process

• Bringing local partners together to develop and
• implement their own ICT projects and policies by
• making a sector scan and analysing needs together
• with local partners.
• Tools Roundtable workshop, project formulation,
  capacity development
• Highlights 2006
• 3 Roundtable workshops (education, health, xxx)
• 30 projects formulated
• 18 projects started implementation

Roundtable, Bolivia
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Partnerships
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Global Teenager project

• Stimulate cross-cultural understanding by
  exchanging information and knowledge via e-mail
  and internet
• A new way of learning which can be integrated
  in the existing curriculum of schools
• Use of Learning Circles about topics such as
  globalisation, HIV/Aids, human rights and culture
• Global Teenager in 2006
• 32 countries world wide
• 262 classes
• 6.600 students
• Content in English, French, Spanish
• Supported by KPN and
• Anne Frank Foundation

Global Teenager Project
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Project life cycle
Independent continuation
Identification
Formulation
Implementation
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Seven Guiding Principles
Roundtable workshop, Uganda

• Capacity development
• Multi-stakeholder involvement
• Partnerships
• Local ownership
• Demand-responsiveness
• Learning by doing
• Gender equality