A preliminary report Mapping ICT4D Projects in the Philippines

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A preliminary report Mapping ICT4D Projects in
the Philippines

• Erwin A. Alampay Noriel C. Tiglao

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Defining ICTs

• A set of activities that facilitate by electronic
  means the processing, transmission and display of
  information
• Includes the radio, television, telephone,
  computers and the internet
• Use of old or traditional communication
  technologies should have a digital interface

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Development Defined

• Activities that relate to the socio-economic
  well-being of the country or community
• Activities related to health, education,
  commerce, environment and governance
• Terms of reference for this research calls for
  classiying them according to 1)Political/governanc
  e 2) Economic/ Livelihood 3)Social/Education
  and 4) Infrastructure/Access

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ICT4D the middle ground

• Broad- all ICT projects are ICT4D
• Narrow- community-based projects that increase
  access and use of ICT by marginalized communities
  
• Middle-ground
• directly leads to the empowerment of people
• serves the needs of the poor especially with
  respect to dimensions of poverty such as poor
  health, lack of voice and lack of information

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WSIS ICT Applications

• E-government
• E-business
• E-employment
• E-agriculture
• E-learning
• E-health
• E-environment
• E-science

Political/governance/empowerment
Economic/Livelihood
Social/Educational
Infrastructure/Access
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Methodology

• Started with existing ICT project databases
• Desk reviews
• E-mail survey of ICT foundations
• Survey in PSIS and other ICT fora
• ICT4D conference series regional consultations

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Breakdown of ICT projects their application
(n435)
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e-Government/e-Governance

• Websites
• services for job-placement, e-mail,
• community consultation/polling and feedback
  mechanisms.
• Downloading, access to database and online
  submission of forms
• Short Messaging System (SMS/Texting)
• Complaints/suggestions
• Requests for information
• Reports/requests for services

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e-Government/e-Governance

• Computerization and databases
• E-LGU (Real Property Tax, Business Permit
  Licensing, Treasury Operations, etc.)
• Geographic Information Systems
• Nagas I-Gov program
• SZOPAD
• Emergency response
• Davaos Emergency Computer Aided Dispatch (ECAD)
• Marikinas 161
• Cavites 161
• PATROL 117

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e-Government/e-Governance Cases

• Revenue Generation System Replication
• internally developed/non-propriety Revenue
  Generation System by Cagayan de Oro City
• successfully replicated in 4 provinces, 8 cities,
  125 municipalities and 1 corporation since 1998
• Capizs Backyard GIS
• Used 486 computers, and built on data generated
  from previous SRA-MBN Surveys.
• Maps generated from the GIS system was then used
  in a Participatory Barangay Planning Budgeting
  Workshop.
• helped the barangays infrastructure and
  investment plans and projects, and identify
  priorities for funding

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e-Business

• B2B models
• B2bpricenow
• Bayantrade
• Sourcephilippines.com
• B2C
• Divisoria.com
• myAyala.com
• PadalaKo.com
• Information
• Tourist site links
• Price watch
• Electronic yellow pages
• Capability building for SMEs
• eastASEANbiz.net
• ACTETSME

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e-Business Case

• Landbank-B2B Pricenow.com e-Commerce Program
• B2B pricenow provides its website for free for
  coops and free advertising for landbank
• Landbank organized roadshows and training to
  coops marketing and information dissemination
• Landbank provides the hardware to 21 Development
  assistance centers (DACs) nationwide
• PASUC establishes IT-hubs as e-commerce training
  centers
• Development of a payment gateway for online
  payment between cooperatives and buyers

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e-Learning

• Distance Learning
• Farming technologies thru community radios in
  Quezon
• Text2Teach
• Konrad-Adenauer Center for Journalism
• Teacher/Student Skills Development
• E-Skills learning Project
• Ed-venture
• Continuing Science Education for Teachers via
  Television
• UP-Diliman/Cebu Interactive Learning Center
• De la Salles Interactive Virtual Learning
  Environment

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e-Learning

• Networking centers of knowledge
• PREGINET
• e-Library
• Information Technology Training and Development
  Centers
• Exposure to ICTs
• Mobile Information Technology Classrooms
• Multipurpose Community Telecenters (Agusan and
  Lanao)
• E-barangays

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e-Learning Case 1

• Information Technology Training and Development
  Centers in Region 8
• institutionalized in seven (7) partner state
  universities and colleges (SUCs) in region 8.
• empowered the host SUCs with the capability to
  provide the countryside with relevant and
  efficient ICT education and services

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e-Learning case 2

• Bayanihan Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)-DZJO
  school on-the-air(Infanta, Quezon)
• Radio reaches even far-flung and isolated areas.
  Radio ownership is higher than that of other
  media vehicles, therefore it is a mass-based
  media.
• Radio is a high frequency vehicle which caters to
  both literate and illiterate populations.
• The impact of its auditory properties on the
  senses help to dramatise messages.
• Both production and material costs are low. It
  can serve as a two-way form of communication in
  remote areas and provides a potential vehicle for
  grassroots action and mass education

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e-Learning case 2 (contd)

• using radio to reach a huge audience aroused a
  great deal of interest and excitement.
• use the other members of the bureau as
  facilitators. It was agreed that a facilitator
  would be stationed in each barangay to guide the
  group of listeners tuned in to the radio
  broadcast.
• At the time of the initial broadcast in 1977,
  some 65 to 70 participants in each village tuned
  in to the broadcast and discussed it with the
  help of the facilitator. This was the birth of
  the Bayanihan Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)-DZJO
  school on-the-air.

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The Radio school methodology

• A 30-minute preparation and warm-up session, and
  listeners are invited by the broadcaster to call
  on their neighbours to remind them to tune in
• The programme proper starts with an input on a
  particular topic.
• A discussion about the input follows. Relevant
  people are invited to the radio station to
  contribute their knowledge and experience
• Assignments are given over the radio through
  guide questions.
• The facilitator for each learner's group
  processes the questions and elicits responses
  from his/her respective group.
• The radio is switched off to enable participants
  to discuss the issues covered by the programme in
  greater detail.

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Results achieved by the Radio School Programme
(Season II, 1996)

• Graduated 1,000 individual farmers in the second
  season of 1996.
• As a result of the training programme, some
  groups reported household food sufficiency.
• Strengthened the participation of farmers in
  policy formulation, while also ensuring that
  policy makers took farmer's concerns into
  account.
• The focus of this Municipal Agri-Plan was changed
  from external inputs and monocropping of rice and
  corn to focus on integrative crop and livestock
  agriculture, reflecting farmers concerns and
  needs.

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e-Health

• Hotlines
• SARS Hotlines/Textline
• Specialized databases
• Infectious Disease Data Management System
• Hospital medical information needs linked at the
  provincial level
• Education/Knowledge Transfer
• ITCAN
• Qu4Rad
• Kapwa Ko, Mahal Ko
• Distance Learning (UP-CPH, IPHM, Makati Med)

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e-Employment

• Job Match
• Bulacan Job Central
• Phil-jobnet
• i-volunteer.ph
• Linking OFWs with families
• ATIKHAs use of video phone
• OWWAs Tele-Ugnayan Centers
• Friends of Pedro Foundations psycho-spiritual
  support
• Support for laborers
• Remittance services
• Recrutiment agency verification (dole.gov.ph)
• IT Certification

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e-Environment

• Use of Geographic Information Systems
• Land use, soil type, erosion, population, land
  cover
• SMS services
• Bantay Usok, Bantay Dagat, Bantay Kalikasan
• Weather Watch
• Pag-asa National Disaster Coordinating Center

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e-Agriculture

• Research database
• AFRDIS, National Information Network
• Open Academy for Philippine Agriculture
• Farmers' Information and Technology Services
  (FITS)/TechnoPinoy Databases
• GIS
• Soil patterns, topography
• Mapping agrarian reform communities (ARCs)
• Dissemination of farm prices
• Bas.gov.ph
• Palengke sa ere

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e-Science

• Access to ICT Infrastructure
• Multi-purpose community telecenter project
• CATnet PREGINET, BatanesConnect
• IBM Philippines Computer Eyes
• Promotion of Open Source
• Bayanihan Linux

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Limitations

• Used a broad definition of ICT4D
• Excluded computer purchase but added computer
  donation
• Excluded techno-parks
• Elaborated on people-empowering innovative
  replicable and techno-appropriate cases
• Not exhaustive
• Common applications cited as one (e.g. GIS
  applications use of SMS)
• Private sector/civil society initiatives are
  limited

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Conclusion- a criteria taking shape

• An evolving criteria for ICT4D best practice
• The contribution and relevance of the project in
  peoples lives.
• The innovativeness, creativity and
  appropriateness in the use of ICT infrastructure
  to deliver services to the disadvantaged.
• How the project is able to build the capacity of
  the community/organization, and evidence that it
  can be sustained and replicated.
• The relevance of the case to ICT for development
  research, practice and policies.