ITU GLOBAL SYMPOSIUM ON HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT Warwick University Conference Centre Coventry, Uni

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ITU GLOBAL SYMPOSIUM ON HUMAN CAPITAL
DEVELOPMENTWarwick University Conference
Centre Coventry, United Kingdom 21-25 July 2008
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CONNECTING AFRICA ROLE AND CONTRIBUTION OF
ITUs CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE
Coventry 21-25 July 2008
Mohamadou A. SAIBOU Director ESMT
Dakar mohamadou.saibou_at_esmt.sn
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Content of the presentation

• Introduction
• CoEs in Africa
• The Connect Africa" initiative
• Role and contribution of CoEs
• Conclusion

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Content of the presentation

• Introduction
• CoEs in Africa
• The Connect Africa" initiative
• Role and contribution of CoEs
• Conclusion

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Introduction

• The concept of centre of excellence (CoE) was
  created to enable training institutions to adapt
  themselves to the technological and institutional
  changes occurring within the telecoms/ICT sector
  and thereby respond to the demand for capacity
  building.

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CoE Programmes et Partenaires
5 Prog/Partners (tbd)
PARTNERS -TBD
Technical Awareness Regulatory IssuesBusiness
Management Rural connectivity Spectrum management
5 Prog./3 Partners
4 Prog./4 partners
ALCATEL INT LS TELECOM
3 PROGRAMS
OAS/CITELIDB BELL SOUTH ALCATEL
Telecom Policies New Telecom Techniques Regulatory
Issues ICT based Business
CoE ASP
Tech.Awareness Policies Reg. IssuesCorporate
ManagementInternet Technologies Spect Man Sup.
Strategic ManagementTechnology TrendsRegulatory
IssuesSpectrum managementInformation Techn.
CoE AMS
The ITU Centre of Excellence Network
CEEBranch
CISBranch
CoE EURCIS
5 Prog./4partners
6 Prog./3 partners
Regulatory Issues Business management New
Technologies Spectrum Management Rural
Connectivity
SPECTROCANINT ALCATELIIT
Telecom Policies Regulatory Issues Business
management New Technologies IP Awareness Rural
Connectivity
ALCATEL IIT INT
5 Prog./5 partners
CTO SPECTROCAN INT ALCATEL IIT
Regulatory Issues Business management New
Technologies Spectrum Management Rural
Connectivity
CoE Africa
CoE AFR-E
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CoE Africa

• Phase 1 of the project
• Two CoEs
• ESMT (Dakar, French-speaking)
• AFRALTI (Nairobi, English-speaking)
• Phase 2 of the project
• Extend the CoE network around the existing
  AFRALTI and ESMT nodes, as subregional/
  multinational training institutions
• Diversify the training, advisory and assistance
  offers
• Develop new partnerships
• Consolidate the CoE label
• Create a CoE for the Portuguese-speaking countries

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CoE ESMT seven member countries and numerous
user countries

• Benin
• Burkina Faso
• Guinea
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Niger
• Senegal
• Burundi
• Comoros
• Congo
• Côte-d'Ivoire
• Madagascar
• Chad
• Cent. African Republic

• Ethiopia
• Djibouti
• Guinea Bissau
• Togo

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Areas of activity of Africas CoEs

Programme 2 Regulatory aspects
Programme 1 Spectrum management(
Programme 3 New technologies
Programme 5 Universal access
Programme 4 Business Management
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Content of the presentation

• Introduction
• CoEs in Africa
• The Connect Africa" initiative
• Role and contribution of CoEs
• Conclusion

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• Origin of Connect Africa
• Part of the Connect the World global vision,
  intended to contribute to achievement of the
  Millennium Development Goals by
  2015http//www.itu.int/net/about/vision.aspx

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Connect Africa
Some basic indicators for Africa in 2007
Source ITU World Telecommunication/ICT
Indicators Database, E. Sagna
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Broadband in Africa

• In 2007, Africa accounted for only 0.5 of the
  worlds broadband subscribers
• Africa has only 1 of the international bandwidth
  
• Africa had some 40 Gbps of international
  bandwidth in 2007, of which 90 in northern
  Africa and South Africa

Source ITU World Telecommunication/ICT
Indicators Database, E. Sagna
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Connect Africa the African context

• Low penetration of broadband services in Africa
• Source ITU Eye database (14 May 2008),
  Presentation S. Bassave, FTRA 2008
• Shortcomings at several levels
• Lack of a national, inter-State and
  international broadband backbone
• Inadequacy of access nodes to broadband services
• Inadequacy of content production
• High cost of access to broadband services
• Inadequacy of structures for capacity building
• Need to adapt the regulatory framework to the
  international context

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Connect Africa

• A global partnership of numerous stakeholders

• A Summit of leaders
• Kigali, Rwanda 29 and 30 October 2007
• Patron The President ofRwanda, Mr Paul Kagame
• Organizers ITU, African Union, World Bank
  Group, United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and
  Development (GAID)
• Partners African Development Bank, African
  Telecommunications Union and United Nations
  Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)

The overall goal of the Connect Africa Summit is
to mobilize the human, financial and technical
resources required to bridge the major gaps in
information and communication technology (ICT)
infrastructure throughout the African continent
www.itu.int/itu-d/connect/africa , adapté de
E.Sagna
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The Goals

• Goal 1
• Interconnect all African capitals and major
  cities with ICT broadband infrastructure and
  strengthen connectivity to the rest of the world
  by 2012.
• Goal 2
• Connect African villages to broadband ICT
  services by 2015 and implement shared access
  initiatives such as community telecentres and
  village phones.
• Goal 3
• Adopt key regulatory measures that promote
  affordable, widespread access to a full range of
  broadband ICT services.

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The Goals

• Goal 4
• Support the development of a critical mass
  of ICT skills required by the knowledge economy,
  notably through the establishment of a network of
  ICT Centres of Excellence in each sub-region of
  Africa and ICT capacity-building and training
  centres in each country, with the aim of
  achieving a broad network of inter-linked
  physical and virtual centres, while ensuring
  coordination between academia and industry by
  2015.
• Goal 5
• Adopt a national e-strategy, including a
  cyber-security framework, and deploy at least one
  flagship e-government service as well as
  e-education, e-commerce and e-health services
  using accessible technologies in each country in
  Africa by 2012, with the aim of making multiple
  e-government and other e-services widely
  available by 2015.

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Content of the presentation

• Introduction
• CoEs in Africa
• The Connect Africa" initiative
• Role and contribution of CoEs
• Conclusion

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• Goal 4 of the Connect Africa initiative is aimed
  at skills development through
• the establishment of a network of ICT centres of
  excellence in each sub-region of the African
  continent
• Phases 1 and 2 of the CoE project in Africa will
  contribute to implementation of this component of
  the goal. AFRALTI and ESMT are already
  operational and new nodes are to be created under
  phase 2
• the establishment of ICT capacity-building and
  training centres in each country, with the aim of
  achieving a broad network of interlinked physical
  and virtual centres
• Projects for the creation of ICT
  capacity-building centres are under way in a
  number of countries (e.g. Mali, Tunisia, etc.),
  and the CoE are to accompany those countries in
  implementing the projects
• coordination between academia and industry.
• The CoEs, in line with their
  objectives, are already working with regulators,
  operators and policy-making bodies on the one
  hand, and academia on the other. They are thus
  able to serve as points of contact and
  convergence between those on the academic side
  and professionals from the sector.

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Conclusion

• CoEs are playing an active part in the
  establishment of sustainable and high-quality
  training operations in Africa by accompanying
  States, regulators and operators in the area of
  human capital development
• Human capital is the foundation for development,
  making its strengthening an essential factor in
  achievement of the CONNECT AFRICA goals
• The creation and networking of new training
  centres (e.g. the RAFTER ESMT project) using
  existing structures, and the pooling of their
  resources, will enable achievement of the
  capacity-building goals of the CONNECT AFRICA
  initiative AND WILL MAKE A SIGNIFICANT
  CONTRIBUTION TO AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT

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References

• FTRA Dakar 2008
• Presentations by E. Sagna and S.Bassavé
• CoE project documents, ITU/BDT/HRD
• www.itu.int/ITU-D/Connect/africa
• www.itu.int/AFRICA2008

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• Thank you for your kind attention!
• Mohamadou A. SAIBOU
• ESMT Dakar
• mohamadou.saibou_at_esmt.sn
• www.esmt.sn