ICT Success Stories Portal:showcasing ICTs power for

development

Official launch of the Portal,31 March 2006, ITU Headquarters, Geneva

Youlia Lozanova, Strategy & Policy Unit, ITU

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Outline1. Goals

2. The Portal & WSIS

3. Leveraging the Portal

4. Functionality

5. Selected ICT Success Stories

6. The Portal: Next steps

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Goals

showcase innovative projects and examples of the multi-stakeholder approach

exchange fresh ideas and learning experiences about creative uses of ICTs in different cultural contexts

raise awareness about the potential of ICTs for the achievement of the MDGs and the WSIS goals

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Key Message There is no “one size fits all” approach to

using new technologies to promote development with a human face: rather, in the trial-and-error process of learning to use ICTs effectively in the local context, the insights of projects and development activities gained from stakeholders’ experience can be extremely valuable.

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ICT Success Stories Portal and WSIS

e) Develop and launch a website on best practices and success stories, based on a compilation of contributions from all stakeholders, in a concise, accessible and compelling format, following the internationally recognized web accessibility standards. The website could be periodically updated and turned into a permanent experience-sharing exercise.

Geneva Plan of Action, Paragraph 28, Geneva Phase of WSIS 2003

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Brief overview

Over 600 projects

Stories from 64 countries

Projects designed and implemented by all stakeholders

Concerted action at the local, national, regional and international level

Cross-cutting issues are considered

Focus on developing countries

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Leveraging the Portal The ICT-related or driven initiatives in all aspects

of life Projects by all stakeholders and for the benefit

of all Partnerships, cooperation strategies and

unilateral efforts at all levels In the spirit of the WSIS and the MDGs, ICTs offer

unlimited opportunities for bridging the digital divide

New & promising solutions to developing countries’ challenges

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Criteria applied Based on or making use of ICTs Focus on developing countries Activities and goals emanating from the WSIS

Plan of Action Activities and goals aimed at achieving the MDGs Scale Outcome of the project Innovative & multi-sector approaches Target at vulnerable groups Partnerships, multi-stakeholder partnerships

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Functionality I

The website

Projects by categories

Brief thematic highlights

Online questionnaire

Feedback

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Themes

e-Education

e-Government

e-Health

Resource Mgmt

Grassroots

Empowerment

e-Inclusion

Poverty Reduction

Community Dev.

Good Governance

Gender

Youth

Indigenous people

Disabilities

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Functionality II

The search tool Theme Key-word Country of origin

or implementation

Technology Stakeholder Cross-cutting

issue

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Mobile Internet on Boats - Bangladesh

Project designed & implemented by Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha

The Mobile Internet Educational Units on Boats program provides free public access to computers and the Internet through the use of indigenous boats converted into mobile libraries and schools

Target group: local remote communities, with a special focus on women and children

More information on sss.interconnection.org

Other projects: Rickshaws Connect India's Poor

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e-Homemakers Network - Malaysia

Enabling marginalised Malaysian women to use ICTs to generate income from home, supporting their active participation in the information economy.

Designed to enable homeworkers to teletrade, network, and support each other through creative problem-solving and idea-sharing, an trilingual e-community offers services such as a platform to enable online product marketing.

Implemented by the Government of Malaysia

More information on www.ehomemakers.net

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OSISA ICT Programme

communication project deployed in Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe

aiming to contribute towards creating an atmosphere where there is free and equitable flow of information, and at deploying appropriate technologies, systems and knowledge

ICT networks are applied to enhance and deepen citizen's rights, access, usage and participation towards an open society through ICT

More information on www.osisa.org

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Connect the World - ITU

International commitment to promote development and

connectivity

ITU and over 40 other partners from all the main

categories of stakeholders (KADO, Microsoft, Child

Helpline International and UNESCO, among others)

Platform to encourage new partnerships to bridge the

digital divide and meet WSIS commitments by 2015

More information on

www.itu.int/partners/projects.html

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Trends Growing number of projects using ICTs Multi-stakeholder Partnerships Increased e-Inclusion Pluri-disciplinary approach Long-term commitment & action for

sustainable results Explicit effort to harness a very extensive

range of people’s concerns & activities Mainstreaming innovative solutions

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The Portal: Next Steps

Archive of more detailed case studies of

successful experiences

More interactive tools Link to more resources on ICT4D

Regular up-date

Related events

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Thank you!

Tell us aboutICT success stories you contribute to

at spu@itu.int