National Consultations on ICT for Development: Developing Viet Nam

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• National Consultations on ICT for Development
  Developing Viet Nams ICT Strategy

Phan Duc Thang Assistant Resident
Representative UNDP Ha Noi
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IT Master Plan until 2005

• Key objectives
• IT utilization and effectiveness shall reach the
  average level in Southeast Asia
• Internet and telecommunications networks shall be
  developed with modern technologies
• IT industry shall reach an annual growth rate of
  20-25
• 50,000 IT experts (including 25,000 senior
  experts and professional programmers) shall be
  trained

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IT Master Plan until 2005

• Major components
• Promoting IT use in prioritized sectors
  (socio-economic development national defense
  security State management information systems)
• Developing national internet and
  telecommunications networks
• Developing IT industry (hardware software)
• Developing human resources, focusing on experts
• Strengthening IT R D activities
• Creating an enabling legal environment
• Improving State management in IT
• Raising public awareness on IT role and
  utilization
• List of programmes and projects

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ICT COMPONENTS IN CAPACITY BUILDING PROJECTS

• Disaster information system at MARD
• Legal database at the National Assembly
• Public service delivery in HCM City
• Business registration at MPI
• Provision of information to farmers at MARD

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Roundtable Process in 2003

• Roundtable 1 Assessing ICT in Viet Nam
• Roundtable 2 Outline of ICT Strategy, pillars 1
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• ICT Infrastructure ICT Industry
• Roundtable 3 Outline of ICT Strategy, pillars 3
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• Human Resource Development and
• ICT Applications Content
• National Forum Detailed Outline of ICT Strategy
  and follow-up
• Participation Govt agencies, civil society
  organizations, donors, NGOs, domestic foreign
  companies

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Conceptualizing the Strategy

• The 5 Ws
• What is ICT?
• Where are we?
• Where do we want to go?
• What are we going to do?
• Who is to do what?

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Four Pillars Three Actors
Users
Regulatory Environment
Human Capacity
Government
Businesses
Investment
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ICT as industry enabler for development
Hardware Software Telecom Electronics Services Con
tent
Domestic Market
Industry
Export
ICT
Economy Production Business Trade Agriculture
Suburbans
Industrialization Modernization
Knowledge-based economy
Society Education Health Environment
Enabler for dev.
Information Society
Management Operation, Administration Public Infos
National Security Defense
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Strategy Weaknesses

• ICT role as enabler for socio-economic
  development reflected not clearly enough in
  objectives, targets, programmes
• Objectives, programmes not yet prioritized
• Need for fair competition and deregulation
  stressed inadequately, in view of AFTA, WTO and
  globalization
• Resource mobilization strategy not yet outlined
  and resource needs not yet identified
• Implementation plan not yet formulated and roles
  of stakeholders not yet specified clearly

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Lessons learned

• UNDP can facilitate a multi-stakeholder
  participatory process
• Be patient one step at the time, and listen to
  your counterparts
• Provide new knowledge and add value to research
  activities
• Involve the media for ensuring broad public
  participation

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FUTURE DIRECTIONS

• ICT applications mainstreamed into capacity
  building projects
• E-Government roadmap
• Indicators to measure progress of National ICT
  Strategy

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• Thank you

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