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Title: Introduction and Overview


1
Scan-ICT
  • Introduction and Overview

2
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

3
Scan ICT Methodology The Matrix
4
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

6
Teleaccess and Poverty
GDP per capita per day
7
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

8
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)?
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