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Title: Internet Overview: Internet for Development


1
Internet OverviewInternet for Development
  • IT for Decision Makers
  • By Taholo Kami
  • for UNESCO

2
Mission
  • Improve the quality of life of the people of
    .(Name of Country)

3
Objectives - Overall
  • Overview and understanding of ICT opportunities,
    issues and implications for (Insert Name of
    Country)
  • Matching national / sectoral priorities and ICT
    opportunities.
  • Identifying actions that will enable a knowledge
    driven society.

4
Objectives - Participants
  • All participants understand the possibilities
    available to them in their various roles in the
    information age.
  • All participants are able to identify
    opportunities and issues that directly affect
    them and initiate actions for change.

5
What is the Internet?
  • Global Network
  • Computers connecting people
  • 400 million users
  • Educated / up market but spreading quickly
  • Implications in the Pacific
  • Globalization
  • Access to global information resources
  • Extends marketing possibilities
  • Instant communications

6
A Global Network
7
Global Online Population?
  • 350 - 407 million - Dec 2001
  • USA/ Canada 167 m
  • Europe 113m
  • Asia / Pacific 104.8
  • 74.6m or 71 from Australia, NZ, Japan, South
    Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia.
  • Africa 3.1m
  • Middle East 2.4m
  • Latin America 16.45
  • Source Nua Internet Surveys

8
Obstacles - Access and Participation
  • Access -
  • Expensive
  • Cost of Computer
  • Internet Connectivity - 1- 8/hour for dial up
    connection
  • Internet Penetration
  • Less then 3 of population
  • Limited to capital or key cities

9
Obstacles - Capacity
  • Awareness of Internet potential
  • Unaware of Existence of Network / s
  • Cost vs. Benefits unconvincing
  • Untrained users
  • Local IT skills are premium commodities
  • Computer literacy still low

10
Internet Applications
  • E Commerce
  • Tele medicine / Health
  • Distance Education
  • E Governance
  • Agriculture Knowledge Networks
  • Virtual Communities

11
Strategy
  • Infrastructure
  • Human Capacity Building
  • Investment
  • Policy and Regulation

12
Components
  • Infrastructure
  • In Developed Countries the challenge is now
    getting the under privileged and remote areas
    online
  • Developing Countries basic Telecommunications
    infrastructure competes with roads, electricity,
    transport, education for funding.
  • Economic returns of Telecommunications
    infrastructure is more difficult to quantify.

13
Policy and Regulation
  • I.T. Policy should be aimed at creating an
    enabling environment with affordable access at
    its core.
  • Duty Free for IT Hardware
  • Cost / Benefits determined
  • Incentives for Investment in IT
  • Sound Business Environment

14
Capacity Building
  • Developing local capacity in IT skills via
    education and incentives
  • Benchmarks
  • Training Teachers - Priority
  • All Students at 4th Form level.
  • Build value into an Internet Passport scheme
  • Pilot projects in core development priority areas
  • Tourism, Trade, Governance

15
Financial Support
  • Financial commitment from Government and donors
    to strengthen key sectors for development
    including Telecommunications infrastructure.
  • Identify core competency areas and fund
    development of information tools in these
    fields.
  • Synergy will lead to IT development in other
    fields

16
E Culture
  • A culture of innovation and entrepreneurship must
    be developed
  • Recognize impact on society and develop strategy
    to counter negative issues.
  • Develop strategies for building local content and
    utilizing the Internet to enhance and promote
    culture

17
Conclusion
  • The Internet provides opportunities to new and
    expanded markets for the Pacific Islands.
  • Information technology provides new development
    opportunities to enhance and transform national
    services such as governance, education, health
    and commerce.
  • A concise national IT strategy will ensure scarce
    resources are utilized in providing necessary
    infrastructure and services to enable IT
    development in key sectors.

18
Ground Rules
  • 1. Its all about People
  • Sell Value - benefits
  • Connect to objectives
  • 2. Relevance Not Reverence
  • Keep technology in perspective
  • Vehicle for achieving our objectives
  • 3. Keep a Borderless perspective
  • 4. Innovate. Break the Rules
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