The REVA project

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Knowledge Sharing and NGOs The European
CommissionDG Development Harry De Backer
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Some thoughts

• Information changes swiftly
• Knowledge sharing ICT
• Sub-Saharan Telecom sector
• Manhattan 1995
• Tokyo 2002
• Improve ICT sector
• Liberalization of telecom sector
• 1/day
• Telecom sector in crisis
• 2001 GSM Telephone lines
• Bandwidth is a problem
• Landlocked countries
• Use of SAFE cable expensive
• Caribbean CW monopoly doesnt help

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Hopes

• Traditional knowledge is on the WSIS agenda
• Software in India
• Bangalore 1990
• Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai, Hyd(p)erabad
• 2.6 of the GDP
• 14.2 of the export
• 0.07 of the population
• Duplicate in other developing countries
• WSIS
• Digital Solidarity Agenda
• 2004 mid-Term Review of the EDF

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What is the EC doing?

• Asia ITC
• 30M
• 100k-400k/project
• Open to NGOs
• EUMEDIS (Mediterranean)
• education, healthcare networks, cultural heritage
• 65M
• ALIS (Latin America)
• Same as above
• 77.5M

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European Development Fund

• 13.5B
• National Indicative Programmes
• PNG, Jamaica, St-Lucia, Grenada
• Regional Indicative Programmes
• COMESA, SADC, CARIFORUM, Pacific Islands Forum
• Intra-ACP
• 2004 Mid-term review after the WSIS
• Proinvest
• 110M for development of ACP industrial
  sectorand enterprises

Africa has missed the Industrial Revolution, it
cannot allow itself to miss the Information
Revolution!
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