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• Stimulating change through ICT

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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
• Challenges for the future

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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, DFID, SDC,
  Cordaid, Hivos and PSO

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Residence

• Head office in The Hague (The Netherlands)
• 33 staff members

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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)
• Seed funds
• 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
27
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Building on expertise

• 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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Results (December 2006)

• 130 projects supported by IICD
• Livelihoods (52), education (27), governance
  (12),
• health (7), environment (2)
• 30 of projects continue independently
• 10 of projects closed
• Global Teenager Project replicated in 35
  countries
• 250.000 direct end-users and 2.5 million
  indirect end-users
• More than 5,000 people trained
• 11 policy processes 2 on a national and 9 on
  sector level
• 10 national and regional ICT for development
  networks
• approx. 50 publications, research and impact
  studies. 400 Dgroups (incl. GTP)

Monitoring evaluation, Burkna Faso
Focus group meeting, Ecuador
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Impact of our work (Dec 2006)

• 70 of end-users live in rural areas
• Increased awareness of added value of ICT within
  3 years in all sectors. Empowerment equally
  strong in all sectors (app. 50)
• Economic impact -better position to negotiate- in
  livelihoods has improved, but still below
  expectations (29)
• Organisational impact strongest in education
  (quality of educational material, curriculum and
  access to education), followed by governance
  (transparency, decision making and
  democratisation)
• Satisfaction of partners in governance largest
• 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, DFID, SDC, CIDA, Danida
• Non-profit sector knowledge sharing and joint
  ventures (network of grassroots based
  organisations)
• e.g. Hivos, Cordaid, Oneworld, Bellanet,
  SchoolNet Africa
• Private sector ICT expertise and resources
• e.g. Cap Gemini, Manobi, Inter Access

Telecentre, Ghana
Marc Koning, Inter Access
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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)

Cobit workshop, West-Africa
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Challenges for the future

• Improve connectivity
• More up-scaling and replicating
• Making local partners more sustainable (funding)
• Entering new (public-private) partnerships
• Keeping ICT on the development agenda

APCOB, Bolivia
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• The impact of ICT is comparable to the impact
  of alphabetisation who misses this boot will be
  left stranded.
• Veerle Sas,
• consultant Inter Access

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 2006
• 12 Focus Group Meetings
• 9 country evaluation reports
• 2 Output-to-Purpose Reviews (projects)
• 12,000 questionnaires filled out in total

Burkina Faso
Ecuador
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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