E-Strategies and ICT Infrastructure Policies and Regulations

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• E-Strategies and ICT Infrastructure Policies and
  Regulations
• ITU-WTO Workshop
• Geneva Dec. 2004
• Mostafa Terrab,
• infoDev

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• Past and Present Examples
• Ethiopia
• E-Lanka
• Tunisia
• Typical Components of an E-Strategy
• Critical Success Factors in Deploying
  E-Strategies
• The I and the E

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Example Ethiopia

• Objective Assist Communities to Improve their
  Livelihood through the Use of ICT that Facilitate
  Increased Access to Markets
• Five Key Components
• Enabling a Growth Enhancing Environment for
  Broadcasting
• Enable a Public-Private Partnership between
  Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC)
  and Private Sector Groups
• Support a Growing Private Sector ICT Business
  Community
• Support Successfully Tested Technologies for
  Targeted, Scalable Interventions
• Create an Operational Ethiopian ICT Development
  Authority (EICTDA) and a capable Ethiopian
  Telecommunications Authority (ETA) and Ethiopian
  Broadcasting Authority (EBA)

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Example Tunisia

• Objective Development of Tunisia's ICT Sector
• Key Components
• Assist in the development of an IT strategy,
  policy, and regulation.
• Formulate an E-Government Benchmarking, and
  Strategy
• Develop E-Government Applications and Online
  Services
• Implement a Computer Risk-Prevention Model and,
  Strengthen E-Security Research and Training
  Capacity
• Establish a Data Back-Up Center
• Establish an ICT Statistical and Economic
  Analysis Unit
• Regulatory Capacity Building

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Example E-Lanka

• Objective Establish an effective,
  citizen-centered and business-friendly government
• Six key components of the E-Lanka E-Development
  Strategy
• the ICT Policy, Leadership and Institutional
  Development Program
• the ICT Human Resources Development and Industry
  Promotion Program
• the Tele-Center Development Program
• the Reengineering Government Program and
• the e-Society Program 
• the Regional Telecommunications Network

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Typical Components of an E-Strategy

• Innovation Support (Cyberparks, RD Facilities
  etc.)
• Developing an E-Government Approach and
  E-Government Network
• Developing a Cyber Law Approach (e-Legislation
  Programmatic Work)
• Supporting Private Sector Development (Training
  Capacity Building, ICT SMEs, Incubators)
• Infrastructure Development Policy Reform
• Support for an Independent ICT Agency

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Foundations

• Foundations Foundations

Source BuildingsSource Building The Regulatory
Foundations for Growth in Network
EconomiesWilliam H. Melody, LIRNE.NET
Economics of Infrastructures, Delft University
of Technologies, The Netherlands
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Twenty Five Blocks of Growth in the New Economy
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Critical Success Factors in Deploying National
E-Strategies

• Information and Communication technology (ICT)
  infrastructure (the I) is at the heart of
  successful deployment and sustainability of
  e-government programs
• (Deploying e-government programs the
  strategic importance of I before E R.
  Schware and A. Deane World Bank)
• Institutional Clarity
• Mainstreaming ICT in other sectors and
  governmental coordination
• Whos in the driver seat? The I or the E?

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Can Telecom Regulators Ignore the E ?

• The I as Part of the E Institutional Agendas
• The I Needs the E Mainstreaming ICTs in
  Other Sectors
• The E as Part of the I
• Technological Trends (NGNs, IP at the Edges of
  the Network)
• Emerging Business Models (Infrastructure/Services,
  Wholesale/Retail, Re-Sellers/MVNOs/ISPs/Network
  Integrators)
• New Tariff Paradigms (Not-Cost-Driven,
  Costumer-Value-Driven)
• New Regulatory Paradigm?

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A Dynamic Growth Cycle Investment in
Infrastructure and Innovation