ICT, Poverty Reduction and Strategic Programmes (PRSPs), and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

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Session I ICT, Poverty Reduction and Strategic
Programmes (PRSPs), and the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs)
Dr. Tariq Banuri Chairman ePoor.org Pakistan
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ICTs, MDGs, and PRSPTariq Banuri, SEI-B, and
ePoor, 20 October 2003

• Overview Contrasting Perspectives
• Background on ICTs
• MDGs, PRSP, and ICT
• role of policy in fulfilling the MDGs
• the potential of ICTs

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Contrasting Perspectives

• What causes human development?
• The River Washington Consensus
• The House Policy Reform and Political Will
• The Tree Civic Entrepreneurship
• The Experience of Development
• The Pro-Poor Approach

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And it is becoming worse

• 1950 2000
• Over 5x increase in global output
• Nearly 12x increase in world trade
• 1950 - Haves 30x over the Have Nots
• 1989 - Haves 60x over the Have Nots
• 2000 - Haves 80x over the Have Nots

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The Human Economy

• The poverty syndrome
• Prahalads pyramid absence of finance,
  technology, and policy
• Value Chains
• Local and global standards
• Forest corporations vs social forestry programs
• Right to development

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Pro-Poor Approaches

• Akhter Hameed Khan OPP
• Shoaib Sultan Khan AKRSP
• Muhammad Yunus GB
• Ashok Khosla DA
• Mechai Viravaidya PDA

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The Role of Technology

• Generation 1 Green Revolution
• Generation 2 Sanitation
• Generation 3 ICTs

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• The new information and communications
  technologies (ICT) are among the driving forces
  of globalization. They are bringing people
  together, and bringing decision makers
  unprecedented new tools for development. At the
  same time, however, there is a real danger that
  the world's poor will be excluded from the
  emerging knowledge-based global economy.
• Kofi Annan

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The Digital Divide

• The reign of scientific intelligence leading
  to a world divided into a minority ruling in the
  name of knowledge and an immense ignorant
  minority. And then, woe unto the mass of
  ignorant ones. (Mikhail Bakunin 1880)

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Millennium Development Goals

• Goals to be achieved by 2015
• Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
• Achieve universal primary education
• Promote gender equality and empower women
• Reduce child mortality
• Improve maternal health
• Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
• Ensure environmental sustainability
• Develop a global partnership for development

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Where to Go from Here?

• Who Will Pursue MDGs? Civic Entrepreneurs?
• What is the Role of Policy?
• Create enabling environment for CE?
• Support for incubation and outreach
• What is the potential of private sector?
• What is the role of civil society?
• What are the obstacles of civil society?
• Technophobia
• Lack of capacity

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Thank YouDr. Tariq BanuriChairmanePoor.orgPa
kistan