Briefing on the Fourth Meeting of the Committee on Development Information CODI IV

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Briefing on the Fourth Meeting of the Committee
on Development Information (CODI IV)

• 23 28 April 2005
• Aida Opoku-Mensah
• OIC, Development Information Services Division
  (DISD)

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Introduction

• Information as economic resource
• gained currency in past decades
• due to
• Global trends in liberalization and deregulation
• Liberalization/Deregulation of Communication
  Sector
• Information Revolution

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Data, Information and Knowledge

• How did the Information Revolution come about?

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Information Revolution

• Where has the Information Revolution revealed
  itself?
• Medicine
• Education
• Agriculture
• Business/Commerce (e-trade, e-commerce,
  m-commerce, etc)
• Manufacturing/Production
• Governance
• Communication
• Entertainment

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Information Revolution cont

• What has been the overall impact to the Global
  Economy?
• Information as an opportunity enhancer
• Information as major driving force behind global
  exchange
• Information as its own sector within the Global
  Economy
• Improved technological infrastructure has led to
  an environment where information and
  communication can move more directly and freely
  producing enhanced opportunities for information
  sharing and economic exchange. Information has
  become an economic resource.

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Introduction

• Information Revolution
• Technological convergence
• Greater inter-dependence inter-connection
  between information sectors
• Value-added services VANs I II (Internet)
• e-Activities (e-Commerce, e-trade)

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Introduction

• Some Impacts on Society Economy
• Shift from an industrial society to an
  information society
• Additional Factor of Production
• Traditional resources physical capital, human
  capital, and natural resources
• Nowadays Technological knowledge and information
  are considered as a factors of production
• Rise of Information Economy

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The Information Economy

• Essential elements
• Digitization and intensive use of information
• Codification of knowledge
• Transformation of information into commodities
• New ways of organizing work and production

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The Information Economy

• Transformation in Global business
• trade worldwide
• Global e-business market value reached 1.7
  trillion in 2004
• E-commerce is growing Amazon.com earns 3.12
  billion in 2001 for online retailing

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DISD Africas Information Economy

• Activities include
• Information Economy one of 4 themes of ADF 99
• Joint ECA/IDRC Study Pan African e-Commerce
• Initiative (PECI)
• Measuring/penetration SCAN ICT
• Legal Framework for ECOWAS
• Support to Sudan for the Sudan Business and Trade
  Network (SubuNet)
• GIS statistics for socio-economic development
• Studies (eg. National Budgets and ICTs)

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Objectives of CODI IV

• Including
• To investigate, deliberate and document the
  advantages and returns of the emerging
  information and knowledge economy as an economic
  resource
• To review the progress made in the implementation
  of the recommendations of CODI III

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Programme Structure

• Pre-Meeting Workshops Saturday and Sunday (23
  Apr)
• Situs Addressing in Africa
• Use of Geoinformation in Development (Human
  Sciences Research Council)
• ePol-Net Africa - Towards an e-Economy in Africa
  opportunities and challenges (ECA/Industry
  Canada/CePRC)
• Creating and Managing Digital Content (ECA
  Library)

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Programme Structure

• Pre-Meeting Workshops Saturday and Sunday
• (24 Apr)
• Open Source Software as an economic resource
  (ECA/OIF)
• Multi-stakeholder Partnerships for WSIS II
  developing a Regional Plan of Action
• AVLIN Meeting
• ABSA Meeting

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Programme Structure

• Main CODI Meeting
• Keynote speech
• Four discipline-specific respondents
• Plenary each morning
• Parallel subcommittees ICTs/Library,
  Geoinformation, Statistics

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CODI Keynote Address

• Keynote speech Information as an economic
  resource
• Moubarak Lo, former Economic Adviser to Prime
  Minister of Senegal, Director of Societe Generale
  de Banques, Dakar
• Respondents
• Dayo Ogunyemi (ICT)
• Buleti Nsamukila (Stats)
• Peter Adeniyi (Geo)
• Kingo Mchumbi( Library)

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Expected Outcome

• Among other things
• Strengthen understanding of the key role of data
  and information in planning and implementing
  Government programmes and projects
• Examine and investigate the opportunities offered
  by the information economy, in particular in
  relation to the African continent
• Set the path for the development of the ECA
  two-year programme on Harnessing Information for
  Development

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Plenary Sessions

• 25 April
• Information in the Economic Sectors
• ICT in Government and International Trade
• Statistics in the Banking Sector
• Geoinformation and Natural Resource Management

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Plenary Sessions (ctd.)

• 26 April
• Information for Economic Management and
  Entrepreneurship
• Measuring the change in world poverty
• Location-based services
• Access policy IPR, OSS, Internet and e-commerce
• National Knowledge Systems and the Status of
  Information Access Policies in Africa

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Plenary Sessions (ctd)

• 27 April
• Information Industry
• Statistical information and economic and monetary
  integration lessons and a case study
• The geoinformation industry in Africa prospects
  and potentials
• Transformation of the Telecom Sector in Africa
• e-Publishing and Content Creation
• Reports of sub-committees
• 28 April
• Adoption of Report

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Challenges for Africa

• What will CODI Examine?
• The penetration of information in our economic
  activities
• Extent of national investments in the information
  sector
• Legal and regulatory frameworks
• Enhanced Infrastructure
• Level of e-Literacy
• Political will vision
• IPR

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• The recommendations ECA would like from experts,
  member states and stakeholders gathered here at
  CODI this week.

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Flashback to Previous Meetings

• CODI I Harnessing Information for Development
• Launched the CODI process
• CODI II Development Information for Decision
  Making
• Asked the question What information for
  decision making
• CODI III Information and Governance
  recommended strategies to member States and the
  Commission for providing information for good
  governance