Update on Mapping ICT4D Projects in the Philippines

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Update onMapping ICT4D Projects in the
Philippines

• Noriel C. Tiglao and Erwin A. Alampay

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Defining ICT

• Broad definition of ICT
• Use of old or new communication technologies
• Older communication technologies such as
  newspaper, radio and TV offer considerable
  unrealized potential
• Great potential of new technologies
• View ICTs as a vehicle for communication rather
  than simply a means for processing information
  (Curtain, 2004)

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Defining Development

• Activities that relate to the socio-economic
  well-being of the country or community
• Health
• Education
• Commerce
• Environment
• Governance

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Defining Development (contd.)

• Terms of reference for this research calls for
  classifying them according to
• Political/Governance/ Empowerment
• Economic/ Livelihood
• Social/Education
• Infrastructure/Access

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Defining Development (contd.)

• The development goals of a project may be
  assessed in relation to the Millennium
  Development Goals (MDG)
• A critical issue is whether ICTs serves the needs
  of the poor especially with respect to dimensions
  of poverty such as poor health, lack of voice and
  lack of information

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ICT4D The middle ground

• Broad- all ICT projects are ICT4D
• Narrow- community-based projects that increase
  access and use of ICT by marginalized communities
  
• Middle-ground
• Directly leads to the empowerment of people
• Serves the needs of the poor especially with
  respect to dimensions of poverty such as poor
  health, lack of voice and lack of information

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Millennium Development Goals
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Use of ICT in Development

• ICT-led
• ICT as the driver of the development process
• Usually aims to provide the poor with
  opportunities to receive up-to-date information
  or achieve an enhanced ability to communicate
  with others
• Better information, Better economic decisions

Based on Curtain (2004)
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Use of ICT in Development (contd.)

• ICT-in support
• Supplementary role of ICT in development projects
• Clarifies the development goals first, works out
  the ICT needs of the target group and identify
  the most cost-effective ICT in managing
  information and providing channels of
  communication

Based on Curtain (2004)
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Key Components for ICT4D Best Practice (Based on
Curtain, 2004)
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Key Components for ICT4D Best Practice (Based on
Curtain, 2004)
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Key Components for ICT4D Best Practice (Based on
Curtain, 2004)
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Forever Pilot Syndrome

• Most pilot programs are far too expensive on a
  per unit basis to justify public sector
  investment
• ICT4D initiatives need to utilize and develop
  local applications and content to address
  critical issues
• Appropriate use of intermediaries
• Comparative advantage over other approaches
• Viable business model
• Multi-sectoral partnerships

Based on Mathison (2003)
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Possible Considerations for Identification of
Best Practice

• Clear development objectives of the project
• Enhance on-going development activities (i.e.
  poverty targets or MDGs)
• Possibility for replication
• Sustainability

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WSIS ICT Applications
Political/governance/ empowerment

• e-Government
• e-Business
• e-Employment
• e-Agriculture
• e-Learning
• e-Health
• e-Environment
• e-Science

Economic/Livelihood
Social/Educational
Infrastructure/Access
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Breakdown of ICT projects their application
(n435)
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e-Government/e-Governance

• Websites
• services for job-placement, e-mail,
• community consultation/polling and feedback
  mechanisms.
• Downloading, access to database and online
  submission of forms
• Short Messaging System (SMS/Texting)
• Complaints/suggestions
• Requests for information
• Reports/requests for services

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e-Government/e-Governance

• Computerization and databases
• E-LGU (Real Property Tax, Business Permit
  Licensing, Treasury Operations, etc.)
• Geographic Information Systems
• Nagas I-Gov program
• SZOPAD
• Emergency response
• Davaos Emergency Computer Aided Dispatch (ECAD)
• Marikinas 161
• Cavites 161
• PATROL 117

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e-Government/e-Governance Cases

• Revenue Generation System Replication
• internally developed/non-propriety Revenue
  Generation System by Cagayan de Oro City
• successfully replicated in 4 provinces, 8 cities,
  125 municipalities and 1 corporation since 1998
• Capizs Backyard GIS
• Used 486 computers, and built on data generated
  from previous SRA-MBN Surveys.
• Maps generated from the GIS system was then used
  in a Participatory Barangay Planning Budgeting
  Workshop.
• helped the barangays infrastructure and
  investment plans and projects, and identify
  priorities for funding

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e-Business

• B2B models
• B2bpricenow
• Bayantrade
• Sourcephilippines.com
• B2C
• Divisoria.com
• myAyala.com
• PadalaKo.com
• Information
• Tourist site links
• Price watch
• Electronic yellow pages
• Capability building for SMEs
• eastASEANbiz.net
• ACTETSME

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e-Business Case

• Landbank-B2B Pricenow.com e-Commerce Program
• B2B pricenow provides its website for free for
  coops and free advertising for landbank
• Landbank organized roadshows and training to
  coops marketing and information dissemination
• Landbank provides the hardware to 21 Development
  assistance centers (DACs) nationwide
• PASUC establishes IT-hubs as e-commerce training
  centers
• Development of a payment gateway for online
  payment between cooperatives and buyers

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e-Learning

• Distance Learning
• Farming technologies thru community radios in
  Quezon
• Text2Teach
• Konrad-Adenauer Center for Journalism
• Teacher/Student Skills Development
• E-Skills learning Project
• Ed-venture
• Continuing Science Education for Teachers via
  Television
• UP-Diliman/Cebu Interactive Learning Center
• De la Salles Interactive Virtual Learning
  Environment

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e-Learning

• Networking centers of knowledge
• PREGINET
• e-Library
• Information Technology Training and Development
  Centers
• Exposure to ICTs
• Mobile Information Technology Classrooms
• Multipurpose Community Telecenters (Agusan and
  Lanao)
• E-barangays

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e-Learning Case 1

• Information Technology Training and Development
  Centers in Region 8
• institutionalized in seven (7) partner state
  universities and colleges (SUCs) in region 8.
• empowered the host SUCs with the capability to
  provide the countryside with relevant and
  efficient ICT education and services

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e-Learning case 2

• Bayanihan Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)-DZJO
  school on-the-air (Infanta, Quezon)
• Radio reaches even far-flung and isolated areas.
  Radio ownership is higher than that of other
  media vehicles, therefore it is a mass-based
  media.
• Radio is a high frequency vehicle which caters to
  both literate and illiterate populations.
• The impact of its auditory properties on the
  senses help to dramatise messages.
• Both production and material costs are low. It
  can serve as a two-way form of communication in
  remote areas and provides a potential vehicle for
  grassroots action and mass education

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e-Learning case 2 (contd)

• using radio to reach a huge audience aroused a
  great deal of interest and excitement.
• use the other members of the bureau as
  facilitators. It was agreed that a facilitator
  would be stationed in each barangay to guide the
  group of listeners tuned in to the radio
  broadcast.
• At the time of the initial broadcast in 1977,
  some 65 to 70 participants in each village tuned
  in to the broadcast and discussed it with the
  help of the facilitator. This was the birth of
  the Bayanihan Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)-DZJO
  school on-the-air.

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The Radio school methodology

• A 30-minute preparation and warm-up session, and
  listeners are invited by the broadcaster to call
  on their neighbours to remind them to tune in
• The programme proper starts with an input on a
  particular topic.
• A discussion about the input follows. Relevant
  people are invited to the radio station to
  contribute their knowledge and experience
• Assignments are given over the radio through
  guide questions.
• The facilitator for each learner's group
  processes the questions and elicits responses
  from his/her respective group.
• The radio is switched off to enable participants
  to discuss the issues covered by the programme in
  greater detail.

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Results achieved by the Radio School Programme
(Season II, 1996)

• Graduated 1,000 individual farmers in the second
  season of 1996.
• As a result of the training programme, some
  groups reported household food sufficiency.
• Strengthened the participation of farmers in
  policy formulation, while also ensuring that
  policy makers took farmer's concerns into
  account.
• The focus of this Municipal Agri-Plan was changed
  from external inputs and monocropping of rice and
  corn to focus on integrative crop and livestock
  agriculture, reflecting farmers concerns and
  needs.

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e-Health

• Hotlines
• SARS Hotlines/Textline
• Specialized databases
• Infectious Disease Data Management System
• Hospital medical information needs linked at the
  provincial level
• Education/Knowledge Transfer
• ITCAN
• Qu4Rad
• Kapwa Ko, Mahal Ko
• Distance Learning (UP-CPH, IPHM, Makati Med)

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e-Employment

• Job Match
• Bulacan Job Central
• Phil-jobnet
• i-volunteer.ph
• Linking OFWs with families
• ATIKHAs use of video phone
• OWWAs Tele-Ugnayan Centers
• Friends of Pedro Foundations psycho-spiritual
  support
• Support for laborers
• Remittance services
• Recrutiment agency verification (dole.gov.ph)
• IT Certification

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e-Environment

• Use of Geographic Information Systems
• Land use, soil type, erosion, population, land
  cover
• SMS services
• Bantay Usok, Bantay Dagat, Bantay Kalikasan
• Weather Watch
• Pag-asa National Disaster Coordinating Center

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e-Agriculture

• Research database
• AFRDIS, National Information Network
• Open Academy for Philippine Agriculture
• Farmers' Information and Technology Services
  (FITS)/TechnoPinoy Databases
• GIS
• Soil patterns, topography
• Mapping agrarian reform communities (ARCs)
• Dissemination of farm prices
• Bas.gov.ph
• Palengke sa ere

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e-Science

• Access to ICT Infrastructure
• Multi-purpose community telecenter project
• CATnet PREGINET, BatanesConnect
• IBM Philippines Computer Eyes
• Promotion of Open Source
• Bayanihan Linux

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Conclusion- a criteria taking shape

• An evolving criteria for ICT4D best practice
• The contribution and relevance of the project in
  peoples lives.
• The innovativeness, creativity and
  appropriateness in the use of ICT infrastructure
  to deliver services to the disadvantaged.
• How the project is able to build the capacity of
  the community/organization, and evidence that it
  can be sustained and replicated.
• The relevance of the case to ICT for development
  research, practice and policies.

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Thank you!