Essential Elements of a National ICT Strategy

Presented byBurchell M. CrookeDirector, Ministry of Science, Information and Technology @CIF Nov 5th – 6th 2007Bay Gardens, St. Lucia

What is a Strategic Planning?

Process of defining a strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people.

The end result is a Strategic Plan

Elements of a National ICT Strategy

Vision - Defines where the country wants to be in the future as it relates to ICT.

Mission - Defines where the country is going now in ICT, basically describing the purpose

Situation Analysis - evaluates the current ICT situation and how it came about

Situation Analysis

What currently exist and what is it being used for?

Where? When was it introduced? Who are the users? Why only those? How is it being utilized?

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Goals, objectives and Targets - time bound statements of intended future results and general and continuing statements of intended future results

Path/Policy Initiatives - maps a possible route to the goals/objectives

Path/Policy Initiatives

Policy Initiatives represents the how one will address the gaps that have been identified between where we are and where we intend to be.

These represents the country’s commitment towards the development of ICT

Path/Policy Initiatives

Too often persons engaged in developing policy initiatives forget what they learnt in quantitative analysis.

The result – too any policy initiatives and strategies that over lap and achieve the same goal

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Policy Stakeholders – OwnershipStakeholders = Ownership

Ownership = Success

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Measurement tools – KPI’sAre We There Yet?

The answer to this question lies in what we measure, how often and the accuracy of the measurements taken.

It is therefore important that the right indicators are measured.

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Source of Funding for the Initiatives

“Financial Sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things and fail” Ed Howe

“Money does all things for reward”

Financing the Strategic Plan

It is important that the National ICT Strategy identifies source of funding for the initiatives identified or else its just another document on the shelf.

Elements not included in ICT Strategy

Specifics – about Technology - actions to be taken

These should be left alone and addressed only in the detailed implementation plan

Global and Regional agenda – unless they are linked to specific local initiatives

What are you fighting Against with your Policy?

Human Behavior

Adoption of new Technology

Stages of Technological Adoption

 Introduction Early Growth Late Growth Maturity Decline

Customer type

Innovators

Early adopters and

opinion leaders

Early Majority Late majority Laggards

Customer need

Features Product

capability

Price/performance

education and capability

Service/support price and

assurance of quality

Cheapest solution

Thanks for your time and attention

Presented byBurchell M. CrookeDirector, Ministry of Science, Information and Technology @CIF Nov 5th – 6th 2007Bay Gardens, St. Lucia