Status of ICT at UNDP Pakistan and the Way Forward

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Status of ICT at UNDP Pakistanand the Way
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• Utilization of ICT at UNDP Pakistan
• Where are we?
• Where we can be?
• How do we get there?
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• Where are we?
• Utilization of ICT by UNDP projects

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Feasibility and Advisory Input to Virtual
University

• University Start Date September 2002
• Programs 4 Year BS degrees in Computer Science
• Teaching via Television, Web, CD, Video
  Cassette, and D Discussion Forum

• Content Delivery and Exams via Private Virtual
  C Campuses 150 nation-wide
• Number of students currently 2,000
• Current objective Affordable IT education
  nation-wide (( ((((40 one-time, 25 per
  month)

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New initiatives
South-South cooperation and international
collaboration

• Establish VU as a platform component for
  South-South cooperation in z.e-learning
  (university degrees, short term courses, joint
  research, r.technology transfer,
  academia-industry links)
• Assistance from overseas Pakistanis via Working
  Group on IT ..Education for establishing
  collaborations with universities and
  ..organizations world-wide for joint research and
  teaching assignments . (Overseas Pakistani
  faculty and students currently participating in
  the . ..Working Group are from Carnegie Mellon U,
  Columbia, Georgia Tech, ..John Hopkins, NTU
  Singapore, Stanford, U Colorado, U
  Illinois-..Urbana Champaign, U Michigan, U
  Missouri, U Sharjah, U Southern ..California, UAE
  U)

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Jobs placement

• Region-wide online jobs placement S S
  services

New degree programs

• Masters degrees in Computer Science
• Conversion programs for scientists and e
  engineers

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Short-term courses at US 4 a course (Cost of
same course is US 25-50 in the US)

• IT (753 courses) Mainframe Computing, Unix,
  Oracle, Client/Server, Internet, Data
  Communication and Telecommunications,
  Certification, OS/390, Cisco, Novell
• PC End User (117 courses) PC Operating
  Systems, MS Office, Lotus, Novell, MS Project,
  Adobe Photoshop, MS Office, Handhelds and PDAs,
  Accounting and Macintosh
• Professional and Business Development Skills
  (111 courses) Management Skills, Team Building
  Skills, Project Management, Customer Service
  Skills, Sales Skills, Project Management
  Professional, Personal Effectiveness,
  Negotiations
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ICT Support to Planning and Development
Department of Northern Areas to Strengthen its
Planning Capacity
Providing hardware and software for GIS lab and
MIS applications for information on parameters
such as

• population density
• population profile
• income generation
• natural resources
• land utilization

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Establishment of Participatory Information
Systems (PIS) for Improved Public Services
Delivery in Two Districts of Balochistan

• Based on GIS and MIS, PIS gathers and provides
  information such as
• population figures, age and gender breakdowns,
  seasonable migration patterns, human resource
  availability, livestock population, water and
  land resources
• status (efficacy, problems, needs) of public
  services (for example, schools, health clinics)
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• Concurrently, PIS is a platform for planning,
  implementation,
• management, and monitoring of local public
  services with active participation of
  stakeholders (local Government, communities,
  NGOs, international organizations)

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ICT Support to the Citizen Police Liaison
Committee Karachi to Facilitate Access to
Justice

• Improvement and unification of all databases and
  systems
• Improvement of procedures of entering crime
  related information
• Strengthening GIS mapping of city and crime
  analysis capability
• Creating a instant crime reporting call center
  and web-based crime Nnotification system
• Providing secure remote access to the system

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Where we can be? utilizing ICT to bridge the
divides (such aas information and
communication, economic, social)

• International best practices
• Local best practices (from UNDP and other
  organizations in Pakistan)
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• How to get there?
• Assessing Needs Filling the Gap
• Bridge the gap between
• Competencies (ICT and international best
  practices for utilization of ICT) and
• Needs of Project
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• Training (technical training, knowledge of
  international best practices)
• Funding Strategy
• Regulatory and Institutional Support
• Market and Community Access

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• Method of Working
• Forming Working Groups in 10 Sub-sectors of ICT
• For example e-Government, e-Learning,
  e-Commerce, e-Health, GIS, Data Warehousing, Call
  Centers, Regulatory and Institutional Framework
• Criteria
• Needs of the projects
• Needs of Government
• Technical Competencies
• Community or Market Access

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Identifying Members and Determining
Responsibilities Members of the Working Groups

• Project Staff (knowledge of project needs)
• Private Sector (knowledge of technical
  competencies)
• Universities/Training Institutions (training)
• Government (regulatory and institutional
  support, access to community or market)
• NGOs (access to community)
• Overseas Pakistanis (technical competencies,
  international linkages, knowledge of
  international best practices)
• UNDP/International Organizations (knowledge
  brokerage international best practices --
  including knowledge from international forums,
  international publications, websites,
  international experts international linkages
  local best practices funding strategy)

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Executing and Managing the Partnership

• For each working group, UNDP and stakeholders
  will provide
• Registration Inventory of competencies and
  needs, in real time
• Communication Conferences, Seminars, Meetings,
  Internet Virtual Rooms, Network Portals, E-mail
• Platform Stakeholders will work in synergy to
  make and implement action plans for optimal
  utilization of ICT

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Outcome Results of the Working Groups Activity

• Training
• Technical competencies
• International best practices
• Technical competencies
• International best practices
• Funding strategy
• Regulatory and institutional support
• Access to community or market
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Framework of Cooperation among ICT POs
Establishment of Working Groups in sub-sectors of
ICT (For Example e-commerce, e-learning,
e-health, ICT policy)

• 1. Membership from ICT POs, technical experts
  of a sub-sector,
• international organizations (including from ICT
  practice communities)
• Forum for developing Expert Knowledge Bank -- for
  rapid technical services to country via
  short-term assignments (For example 3 to 5 days)
• a--Each country provides inventory of needs
• b--With agreement by respective Government,
  private sector, or NGOs each country provides a
  total of twenty man-weeks of expertise
  different experts in various ICT sub-sectors
  (From 10 countries, this would be 200 man-weeks)
• c--UNDP or host country (Government, private
  sector, NGO) pays for
• transportation and local DSA only expert
  services are pro bono
• 3. Platform for joint formulation and
  implementation of actions plans  
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