New Economy Skills for Africa Program Information and Communication Technology (NESAP-ICT) A Joint AFTHD/ GICT/ AFTFP Program

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New Economy Skills for Africa Program Information
and Communication Technology (NESAP-ICT) A
Joint AFTHD/ GICT/ AFTFP Program

• Jee-Peng Tan,
• Education Adviser, Africa Region, World Bank
• South-South Learning Visit to India
• February 8,2009

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Overview

• Why NESAP-ICT?
• Objectives of NESAP-ICT
• Key Focus Areas and Strategy
• Implementation Status
• Funding Sources
• Deliverables
• South-South Learning

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Why NESAP-ICT?

• Scarcity of ICT skills in Africa amid rapidly
  growing telecom and services sectors
• Reduces potential returns on ICT investments
• Disincentive for new investors
• Increasing demand but poor performing ICT
  components in Bank education projects. Africa
  Region has highest ICT components
• Emerging opportunity for employment creation
  through IT enabled services (475bn market in
  2007, 15 tapped)

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Objective of NESAP-ICT

• Support the specific ICT educational and skills
  needs of targeted African countries
• Build capacity to better design, implement and
  ICT projects/components
• Pilot a new way of working collaboratively across
  sectors to address a common need

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Key Focus Areas

• Skills Development to support ICT investments and
  for IT/ITES industry
• Capacity building for Integration of ICTs into
  education and training (teacher training
  programs, vocational training, integration of
  ICTs into curricula)?
• Use of ICT as an enabler to improve performance,
  governance and management of the education system
  e.g. EMIS, NRENs
• Provision of ICT equipment and bandwidth will
  be integrated into the above as necessary.

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Strategy

• Mainstreaming into Country Development Strategy
• Fostering cross-sectoral collaboration
• Partnering with Private sector
• Leveraging South-South Learning
• Strong Government commitment and institutional
  leadership

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NESAP-ICT Implementation Status

• 8 participating countries Ghana, Kenya,
  Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal,
  Tanzania
• Endorsed by Country Champions
• Scoping missions Mozambique, Nigeria and Kenya.
  Needs Assesment in Progress
• South-South Learning (GDLN, India Visit)

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Deliverables by June 2009

• Draft Implementation Action Plans for all
  countries by end of SSLV
• Follow-Up Workshop (end May, 2009)
• ICT Skills Needs Assessment completed in at east
  3 countries
• Baseline Study on the Status of the IT/ITES
  industry in Africa. Publication in FY10

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South-South Learning Visit (Feb. 8-21)

• Objectives
• Facilitate knowledge sharing (Africa-Africa-India)
  
• Provide exposure to the how to of ICT skills
  development and the IT/ITES industry
• Networking (Africa-Africa-India)
• Expected Outcomes
• Country action plans for ICT skills development
• Collaborative linkages to implement the plans
• Continued Peer-Peer learning

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Participants

• Up to 5 people per country from
• Education and Training Institutions involved in
  ICT skills development
• BPO Practitioners and entrepreneurs from the
  private sector
• ICT Regulatory Bodies
• Senior Government officials from the ministry
  responsible for ICT development
• Senior IT/ITES experts from Korea, Philippines
• World Bank TTLs, Managers, NESAP-ICT Team

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Design and Activities

• Duration February 8 - 21 (two weeks)
• Host NASSCOM
• Locations Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bangalore
• Pre and Post Visit GDLN Events
• Week 1
• 2-day Workshop
• Country Presentations on preliminary action plans
• Presentations of India, Philippines and Korea
  experiences
• Participation in NASSCOM Annual Leadership Forum
• Week 2
• Field Visits to selected enterprises
  institutions
• Working session by country teams to develop
  action plans

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Thank You

• Contacts
• Peter Materu (TTL) pmateru_at_worldbank.org

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ICT in IBRD/IDA Portfolio

• 64 of Bank projects1 (pipeline and portfolio)
  have ICT components
• Total ICT investments estimated at about 7.73
  billion (94-06)

  No. of Projects identified with ICT ICT Commitment Amt. USM
Total 1,039 7,736
Portfolio 930 6,198
Pipeline2 19 467
Other3 90 1,071
1 Refers to the total number of projects
reviewed (1630) as part of the ICT dimension
study as of Nov 2006 2 Only includes pipeline
projects with clear ICT components identified 3
Other includes projects other than investment
lending (incl. GPP, IDF, GEF, Special funds etc)
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Bank ICT investments in Education are also
growing
ICT components in education projects have
consistently risen in the 2001-2004 period

• In AFR, education sector has largest number of
  operations with ICTs, with commitments averaging
  168 million a year evaluation indicates
  performance is poor

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Impact of the Sector
ICTs contribution to economic growth
...and on investments
Telecommunication service revenues as a
percentage of GDP, 1998 - 2004
Telecom FDI versus Total FDI in SSA (2000-2004)
35 of total FDI in SSA was from telecom Source
World Bank WDI (2007)
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ITES market
IT services market
Source Tholons 2006
Source NASSCOM-Everest 2008