Transcript Presentation

ITU Workshop on
“ICT Innovations in Emerging Economies”
(Tunis, Tunisia, 28 – 31 January 2014)
Strategic Application of ICT for
Economic Development in Africa
ALI YAHIAOUI ,
Chief ICT Officer, African Development Bank
[email protected]
[email protected]
Presentation Outline
AfDB Group Overview
Connect Africa Summit –Kigali 2007
Transform Africa Summit – Kigali 2013
Strategic Application of ICT in Africa -ETransform Africa Study
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African Development Bank
Group - Our Assistance to Africa
Financing
Products
Grants &
Concessional
Lending
Type of
Intervention
Projects &
program-based
operations
Loans & Equity
Investments
Technical
Assistance &
Policy-based
Lending
Procurement
Goods
Works
Non-project
activities
Services
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AfDB Focus and Strategy
Infrastructure
Governance
Regional
Integration
Private sector
Development
Higher Education
and
Science &
Technology
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Strategic Thrust for the Bank’s ICT
Medium Term Strategy & Action Plan
Medium -term
Focus
ICT Priority
Areas
Country
Focus
Gender, climate change
2. Connect Africa Summit 2007
In 2007 Connect Africa Summit in Kigali, five goals
were set :
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Goal 1: Interconnect all African capitals and major cities with ICT
broadband infrastructure and strengthen connectivity to the rest of the
world by 2012
Goal 2: Connect African villages to broadband ICT services by
2012 and implement initiatives such as community telecentres and
villages phones
Goal 3: Adopt key regulatory measures that promote
affordable,
widespread access to a full range of broadband ICT services
Goal 4: Support the development of a critical mass of ICT skills
required by the knowledge economy through the establishment of ICT
centers of excellence and ICT-capacity building and training centers
Goal 5: Adopt a national e-strategy, including a cyber security
framework, and deploy at least one flagship e-government service as
well as e-education and e-health services using accessible technologies
in each country in Africa by 2012, with the aim of making multiple egovernment and other e-services widely available by 2015.
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3. Transform Africa Summit –Kigali 2013
From 2007 – 2013 Africa concentrated on building ICT national
broadband backbone/regional infrastructures
Objectives of the Trans –Africa Summit:
To pool together International participants to set a new
agenda for Africa to leapfrog development challenges
through the use and uptake of Broadband and related
services.
To leverage on the progress registered in connectivity
since the Connect Africa Summit and use technology to
reduce poverty, enhance participation, improve
service delivery and create prosperity for our people
To accelerate sustainable socioeconomic development
on the continent and usher Africa into the knowledge
economy through affordable access to Broadband and usage
of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT).
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Transform Summit 2013..
Outcome of the Summit
The Transform Africa Summit agreed on a manifesto
comprising five principles.
Principle 1: To put ICT at the center of our national
socio-economic development agenda
Principle 2: To improve access to ICT especially
Broadband to build on the continent’s progress in
connectivity especially in underserved areas
Principle 3: To improve accountability, efficiency and
open Develop and implement national e-Government
policies and open Data initiatives.
Principle 4: To put the Private Sector First: foster an
enabling environment for private investments to drive
job creation, productivity and competitiveness
supported.
Principle 5: To leverage ICT to promote sustainable
development
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4. eTransform Africa Study: Objectives
• Take stock of emerging uses and
applications of ICTs that are having
transformative effects on social and
economic development
• Identify key ICT applications (Africa
and worldwide) that have the potential for
replications and scaling up
• Identify constraints that negatively
impact ICT adoption and scaling up,
including in policy and regulatory
environment
• Develop a common framework
among stakeholders, development
partners and the donor community for
future ICT interventions
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Sectors and Case Studies
Sector
Focus Areas
Agriculture
Traceability technologies (RFID) in cattle
Water management for irrigation
Climate Change
Adaptation
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
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Lessons from the eTransform sectoral
studies
i. Agriculture
Case studies :
• Analysis of the use of RFID tags for tracking livestock in
Botswana
• ICT sensor networks used in water management for
irrigation
The cases show how ICT can help address some of the
challenges facing agriculture and food security in Africa.
• Esoko ( in Ghana) is another good example of ICT in
improving agricultural market information services
ii. Climate Change
Case studies: Malawi, Senegal and Uganda.
ICTs role to the impacts of climate change on the potential
consequences of climate change, vulnerability to projected
impacts, identifying priorities for adaptation
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Lessons from the sectoral studies
iii. Education
Case studies in South Africa and Uganda.
A critical element concerns :
- access learning materials and collaboration
platforms.
- Connectivity for accessing learning
resources.
iv. Health
Case studies of Ethiopia and Mali.
 Example: as exemplified by the IKON teleradiology
program in Mali.
v. Modernizing Government through ICT
Case studies:
• Integrated financial management systems in Malawi;
• electronic tax filing in South Africa.
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Lessons from the sectoral studies
vi. Financial Services
Case studies :
Senegal, Kenya.
• Mobile banking has
reached a tipping
point in Africa and
now is the time for
policy makers to
act boldly.
• Financial inclusion
has improved in
Kenya - where active
bank accounts have
grown fourfold since
2007 aided by some
17 million M-PESA
mobile money
accounts.
Focus
State
of Maturity
Formative State
Consumer
 Product diversification
 Wider consumer
identification options
Public Sector
Engage in policy experimentation
in:
Private Sector
 Diversify products and
capital raising channels
 data standardization and
alternatives
 transparent property
ownership
Scaling State
 Raise overall awareness
 Incent and require obtaining
ID
Desired State
 Ensure competitive
environments and consumer
protection
 Remove artificial levies on
technologies
 Minimize monopoly and
ramp up interoperability
 Mandate IPv6 transition and
compliance
 Policy conducive to integrated
financial services in place
 Full-fledged Interoperability
 Platforms for basic
payments as semi-public
products
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Lessons from the sectoral studies
vii. Regional trade and Integration
• The cross-cutting study included case studies of
Botswana, Kenya and Senegal
• The studies focused
on ICT use in
governance, logistics
and cross-border
information exchange
mechanisms.
ICTs and trade – the supporting
environment
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Lessons from the sectoral studies
viii. ICT Competitiveness
Case studies of Kenya, Morocco and Nigeria.
Provided the African ICT market continues its
impressive double-digit growth, the market
could be worth more than US$150 billion by
2016.
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5. CONCLUSION
Africa’s challenge for this decade is to build on
the mobile success story and broadband progress
to complete the transformation.
Now is the time for rigorous evaluation,
replication, innovation and scaling up of best
practice.
To be able to do this it will require:
i) reducing the cost of access for mobile broadband
ii) supporting government private-sector collaboration
iii) improving the eCommerce environment
iv) enhancing ICT labor market skills
v) encouraging innovative business models that drive
employment, such as microwork and BPO
vi) creating spaces that support ICT entrepreneurship,
such as ICT incubators, and local ICT development
clusters.
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