Post on 23-Dec-2015
eTransformation:
The Transformational Use
of Information and Communication
Technologies in Africa10 January 2013
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ICT Opportunity
6 billion+mobile users
worldwide
5 billion users in emerging and developing countries
Two-thirds of adults in sub-Sahara Africa have a mobile phone
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Joint study by African Development Bank and World Bank in collaboration with Africa Union
Made possible by the Korean Trust Fund on ICT4D
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The Report
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• Take stock of emerging uses and applications of ICTs that are having transformative effects of social and economic development – Share Experiences
• Identify key ICT applications (Africa and worldwide) that have the potential for replications and scaling up – Brainstorm what works
• Identify constraints that negatively impact ICT adoption and scaling up, including in policy and regulatory environment – Identify and overcome obstacles
• Develop a common framework among stakeholders, development partners and the donor community for future ICT interventions -- Collaborate
Objectives
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Sector Focus Areas
Agriculture Traceability technologies (RFID) in cattleWater management for irrigation
Climate ChangeAdaptation
Climate change adaptation, exploration of applications, tools and systems for adaptive action
Education Open schools through mobile technologies, education networking, monitoring student and teacher attendance
Financial Services
Mobile banking, cloud computing,
Health Mobile health, tracking patients, monitoring health clinics
Local ICT Sector
Business Process Outsourcing, mobile and online payment platforms, e-commerce
Modernizing Government
Citizen/community interface, eFiling for tax collection, link online payment system to IFMIS
Trade and Regional Integration
Linking regional trade entities (eg COMESA, ECOWAS, SADC), logistics, transparent flow of goods, customs standardization
Sectors and Case Studies
Both World Bank and AfDB have recently developed new Strategies based around
TransformationThree Pillars of WBG ICT Strategy
• Innovate – Support ICT innovation for jobs and competitiveness – Promote ICT skills to develop competitive
IT-based service industries in selected countries
– Promote ICT-enabled productivity gains across industries
• Connect – Scale up affordable access to broadband internet– Support policy and institutional reforms
for private investment in broadband– Selective support of PPPs in frontier
markets to promote affordable access for all
• Transform – Use ICT to transform service delivery across sectors – Promote open and accountable
development using open government, open data, and aid accountability
– Transform service delivery using ICT applications in economic and social sectors, and establishing cross-sector foundations
• Supporting regional integration• Supporting the Private Sector• Improving Governance and Accountability
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• The mobile phone has revolutionized communications in Africa The African mobile
market is now larger than either EU or USA
Mobile decade
Mobile subscriptions
(millions)
Annual % change in GDP, SSA
• Africa’s “mobile decade” has driven it’s economic growth 2000: 16m subs 2011: 649m subsSource: ITU.Source: World Bank.
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Empowerment
• ICTs are empowering the lives of Africans and are driving entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth
• Its not about the phone or the computer. Its about the applications and the information they deliver
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• ICTs can ease cross-border communications, financial transactions and sharing of data and information and have a catalytic impact upon regional integration and trade facilitation • The deployment of
ICTs and the development of applications must be rooted in the realities of local circumstance and diversity
ICT 4 D
Source: Pyramid Research.
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• Governments have an important role to play in creating an enabling environment and in acting as a lead client for large-scale ICT-based programs
• Effective use of ICTs requires cross-sectoral collaboration and an multi-stakeholder approach, based on open data and open innovation
The report profiles the South African Revenue
Service (SARS) eFiling tax system as an example of
government leadership in ICT applications
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• Africa is right at the start of its growth curve
ICT Programs
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• The World Bank and the AfDB already have considerable ICT invest-ments in Africa
• But, projectsare generallypiecemeal, rarely transformational, and are only a drop in the ocean compared with what could be achieved
• This project creates a platform for change
ICT Investment
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SSA Portfolio
Climate Change
Trade
Governance
Ener
gy
Agriculture
Heal
th
Finance
Transport
• ICT Sector Strategy, 2012-15:• Connect: US$575m in 11
ongoing projects in RCIP, WARCIP and CAB, and 15 N-LTA programs
• Innovate: 2 N-LTA Programs
• Transform: US$100m in eGovernment programs in 2 projects, plus 16 N-LTA• eTransform programs include
eAgriculture in Cote d’Ivoire, eProcurement in Rwanda, Open Gov in Burkina Faso and Nigeria, and community programs in Sierra Leone, Senegal and Tanzania
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Both the World Bank Group and the African Development Bank stand ready to assist our Member Countries in the Transformational Use of ICTs across African Society and Economy