Introduction and Overview

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Scan-ICT

• Introduction and Overview

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Scan ICT What Is It?

• Seeks to build support for the phased development
  of a comprehensive African capability to define,
  collect and manage key information needed to
  support the growing investment in ICTs
• Multi donor initiative
• UNECA (coordinator)
• IDRC (coordinator)
• European Commission
• NORAD

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Scan ICT Methodology The Matrix
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Scan-ICT Implementation
ITIGEO MOROCCO
UNIVERSITY of ADDIS ETHIOPIA
OSIRIS SENEGAL
UNCST UGANDA
INIIT GHANA
CIUEM MOZAMBIQUE
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Scan-ICT Outputs

• National level studies
• Over 600 pages of data and analysis!
• National level web sites
• Pan African Studies
• Baseline Study of school networking in Africa
  (Schoolnet Africa)
• Innovative indicators and mapping

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Teleaccess and Poverty
GDP per capita per day
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What Went Right

• Local capacity building and ownership
• Linking of Scan process with ICT policy
  development processes (Ghana)
• New information and data
• Mapping
• Rich analysis
• A process has begun

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What Went Wrong

• Monitoring was often uncoordinated
• Lack of harmonisation of indicators
• Lack of networking and sharing amongst partners
• Certain national studies were weak (Senegal)
• Too much reliance on secondary sources
• Long and expensive process

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What Still Needs to be Done

• Synthesis of results
• Dissemination
• Coordinated Web site with meta data
• Think of a next phase
• Complete the Matrix?
• Update existing countries?
• Focus on new countries (Botswana, Ivory Coast and
  others would like to join)?