Information and Communications Technology in Asia and the Pacific

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Information and Communications Technology in Asia
and the Pacific
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Globalization is the opportunityPoverty
reduction is the challengeICT is the bridge
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ICT is an Enabler of Development

• Increases the effectiveness of development
  interventions
• Efficiency of effort
• Empowers a greater diversity and number of people

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ICT enhances effectiveness of all types of
development interventions

• Health
• Education
• E-Governance
• Economic

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ICT can render operational aspects of development
interventions less costly

• Increases monitoring potential

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What ICT is NOT

• Substitute for open and transparent government
• Sound policies
• Rule of law
• Physical infrastructure
• Commitment to providing social services
• Knowledge management

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Two approaches to ICT

• Production sector
• Export market focus
• Domestic market focus
• Enabler of socio-economic development
• Global positioning focus
• Development goals focus

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Basic elements of ICT development must be
addressed simultaneously

• Policy setting
• Enabling ICT Enterprise
• Human capacity
• Infrastructure
• Content and applications

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UNDPs Objectives in ICT

• Open access to information and ICT services for
  all citizens, in order to provide maximum benefit
  from ICTD for poverty reduction

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Policy
Result desired

• Policy frameworks in place which support open
  access to information and ICT services by all
  citizens, with particular reference to access by
  the poor and vulnerable groups

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Elements of Policy

• Process and general content
• Regulatory environment for the Internet
• Institutional support

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Enabling Regulatory Framework for ICT enterprise
development
Result desired

• Financial capital available and business
  regulatory environment conducive to ICT
  enterprise growth

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Human Capacity
Result desired

• Critical mass of workers available with ICT
  expertise, as well as related business and
  entrepreneurial skills

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Infrastructure
Result desired

• Resources leveraged among UNDPs partners for
  network infrastructure development, to support
  use of ICT for poverty reduction

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Applications Development
Result desired

• Efficiency and effectiveness of development
  interventions increased, through development of
  appropriate ICT applications

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E-Governance applications

• E-Governance
• Access and exchange between government and its
  constituencies
• E-Government
• Efficiency
• Effectiveness
• Knowledge management

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Todays Questions

• What are your priorities?
• What should be the focus of the next few months
  in order to have these priorities at the center
  of your work in one year?
• What do you need to decide now, in order to make
  this happen?