ADB ICT for Social Protection Findings on Nepal

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Table of Content

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Current ICT context• Telephone network and internet use trend

• DoCR MIS Status

• Private Sector’s Involvement

• Recommendations for DoCR MIS

• Regulatory Reform

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with ADB official terms.


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TELECOM STATISTICS: Karthik, 2072 18 October, 2

*as per Nepal Telecom Authority

1) Subscription of Voice Telephony Service

Population of Nepal : 26,494,504 (As per 2011 census by Central Bureau o

Mobile Subscription : 102% of the Total Population

Fixed Mobile Others

PSTN WLL GSM CDMA LMS

671,254 175,842 25,801,474 13,11,090 839,295 17

847,096 27,112,364 841,037


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TELECOM STATISTICS: Karthik, 2072 18 October, 2

*as per Nepal Telecom Authority

2) Subscription of Data/Internet Services

Population of Nepal : 26,494,504 (As per 2011 census by Central Bureau o

Mobile data services : 44.47% of the Total Population

Mobile Others

11,782,404 309,383

12,091,787


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GROWTH TREND of Telephone and Data/Internet serv

-

5,000,000.00

10,000,000.00

15,000,000.00

20,000,000.00

25,000,000.00

30,000,000.00

N o

o f U s e r s

Year

Mobile Telephone Growth % of mobile telephone Mobile Data/Internet Services Growth % of Mobile


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DoCR MIS Status

• Present MIS System –

• Used by VERS & SS

• Share same database

• VERS - Point of data entry,

• SS - Baseline data is extracted

Present

MIS

used by DoCR

VERS

(Vital Event

Registration System)

SS

(Social Security)


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DoCR MIS Status

• 75 Districts

• 23 districts been brought in at one time or another• Updates to the system not consistent

• Workflow and User Interface (UI)

• Seems to be intuitive

•

Easy to learn for administrators and system users (non public)• Bilingual function – an added benefit

• Data centrally maintained making it more manageable and c


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DoCR MIS Status

• Public Portal• Available for the public but not user friendly• Problems like security lapse

• Occurred last year

• Biometric Identification•

Introduced - Finger Print Identification• Not been very successful

• Communities where populations does manual labour (like farmers) prints a


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Private Sector’s nvolvement

• Private sector

• Important Asset in Cash Transfer Process.• Further presentation on Successes and Challenges from:

• Hello Paisa

• Siddharth Bank

• Social Protection Processes to work

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ICT and Manual logistic processes need to work in COHESION.• Specially in remote districts with difficult terrain and sparse population.

• Real life example on how this is being achieved will be preseby “Hello Paisa” and “Siddhartha Bank”.


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Recommendations for DoCR MIS

• IT Division of the DoCR

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Needs to be Expanded and uplifted.• Public Portal

• Needs to be more user friendly

• Due to prior security lapse - Public Trust needs to be brought back

• 75 Districts

•All 75 districts need to be incorporated in the system

• A process system needs to be set up for data consistency and accu

• Reporting Tools

• Social Security tools need to be created for management and monPayments can be tallied with death rates over a period of time.


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Recommendations for DoCR MIS

• Smart Phone Technology• Referring to the Telecom Statistics –

• Mobile Internet Users Subscription data - 11,782,404 wh97.00% of 12,091,787

• Should learn to exploit Mobile Internet services more in t

• Grievance Systems• Existing system needs to be improved and widened with incorpora

phone complaints, sms, online forms etc.• System integration with other Govt. dbs as per GON

architecture

• DoCR IT Team• Need for Capacity building

• Expansion and upliftment


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RECOMMENDATION – Regulatory Reform

CASH TRANSFER Using mobile phones aresuccessful and popular in countries ‘Telecommunication Companies’ have been brouthe foray.

Reform needs to happen allowing certain transaction to happen via ‘MOBILE’ Phone Accou

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