DevelopmentEx.com Value Proposition

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DevelopmentEx.com
Utilizing IT to Improve the Development Process
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How IT Can Promote Development
5 ways IT can help

• 1 Improving worker productivity
• 2 Promoting trade and markets
• 3 Delivering social services more efficiently
• 4 Promoting community and democracy
• 5 Increasing the efficiency of the donor
  process

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Problems with the Donor Process
issues companies/NGOs face
High Administrative Costs How can I manage
international projects with onerous government
regulations inexpensively? Lack of transparency
How can I find out what projects are out there
and what they entail? Dearth of host country
involvement Where do I find professionals local
to the country where the project is based,
instead of staffing only Western
consultants? Small number of firms/NGOs dominate
the field How can an outside the Beltway
firm/NGO break in?
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DevelopmentEx Accomplishments
leading website for development professionals

• Building a community of development professionals
  75,000 Global Development Briefing subscribers
• Reducing administrative costs nearly every
  major US-based development firm/NGO is a premium
  (paying) member, plus several abroad
• Promoting local capacity approx. 10,000
  consultants and firms/NGOs from around the world
  are registered (free) members, marketing
  themselves for development project work
• Creating transparency more than a dozen
  researchers around the world systematically
  tracking development projects

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Looking Ahead
change factors for DevelopmentEx and donors
Untied aid agreements Internet-based bidding
systems Increased transparency in procurement
process Partnerships between for-profit and
non-profit organizations More South-South
development projects