ICT week 2004 Good Team work

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ICT week 2004Good Team work

• ICT outlook in Lebanon
• Diana Bou Ghanem
• Ministry of Telecommunications
• ICT Office

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Introduction

• Figures and indicators
• MoTs Efforts
• Limitations
• Challenges
• Conclusion

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Figures and indicators

• WB figures of ME e-gov readiness 2003

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Figures and indicators

• WB ME figures technology infrastructure index
  2003

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Figures and indicators

• WB ME figures telecomm indicators index 2003

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Figures and indicators

• PCA ICT Industry in Lebanon, is an ICT
  capabilities survey that stated the following

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Figures and indicators
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Figures and indicators
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Figures and indicators
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Figures and indicators
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Figures and indicators

• Even thought this sector has many positive
  indicators of development, there are still many
  areas where attention is needed to enable the
  sector to progress towards attaining regional
  leadership.

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MoTs Efforts

• Tariff rebalancing (LL, connectivity).
• Increasing international capacity
• Preparing decrees for downstream
• Regulating WIFI usage
• Regulating Teleport project (BCD BBN)
• MAN improve QoS, MOU e-gov, broadband internet
  access.

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Limitations

• All of what was motioned before is not a
  beautiful story, We are still Lagging behind in
  many ICT areas when compared to some of our Arab
  neighbors.

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Limitations

• Government bottle neck in Bureaucratic
  inefficiency and redundancy
• Lack of information
• Legislative stagnation in producing and enacting
  laws
• Disagreements among stakeholders
• Brain drain and migration of the youth.
• lack of financial resources incentives

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Challenges

• Acquiring information (market, community, edu,
  private, public)
• Raising awareness (online info centers,
  subsidized colleges)
• Providing tax incentives and exemptions to
  develop ICT

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Challenges

• Encourage community projects by introducing
  special tariffs.
• Creating new job opportunities that will stop the
  brain drain
• Work vs. talk
• Collaboration cooperation plan of action
  communication

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Conclusion
The idea is using technology for the best of
human development to reach a better information
society indicators are not always reflecting
the reality. so start spreading the word and
simplifying things to reach a wider range of
people because the clock is ticking.
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• Thank you