Stimulating change through ICT

1. Stimulating change through ICT

2. 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

3. IAB Man. Director BoT PF & CS IP CP 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

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

5. 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

6. Goals IICD’s 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

7. 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 embedICT as a tool for sustainable development within organisations and in policies on a national or sector level. • To stimulate knowledge and information exchangeon ICT and sustainable development on a local and international level. • To replicate and expandsuccessful ICT-enabled development projects

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. Work on the ground: ICT and health • Exchange of medical knowledge • Medical administration (patients’ records) IKON, Mali HMIS, Uganda IKON, Mali Kinondoni, Tanzania

12. Work on the ground: ICT and governance • Access to public services (transparency) • Information (democratisation) • Exchange of information (decision making) CIDOB, Bolivia Kinondoni, Tanzania Kinondoni, Tanzania Districtnet, Uganda

13. Projects per sector 27% 52% 2% 7% 12%

14. 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

15. Results (Dec 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. “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