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Information Management for Development: Do the policies work?

Information Management for Development: Do the policies work?. Adapting information policies to target groups. Alec Singh ACP Secretariat www.acp.int alec@acp.int. EADI-IMWG Conference 2004 9-11 September 2004 Maastricht, NL. www.worldbank.org/developmentgoals.

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Information Management for Development: Do the policies work?

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  1. Information Management for Development: Do the policies work? Adapting information policies to target groups Alec Singh ACP Secretariat www.acp.int alec@acp.int EADI-IMWG Conference 2004 9-11 September 2004 Maastricht, NL

  2. www.worldbank.org/developmentgoals

  3. United Nations Millennium Declaration - September 2000 • Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger • Achieve universal primary education • Promote gender equality and empower women • Reduce child mortality • Improve maternal health • Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases • Ensure environmental sustainability • Develop a global partnership for development

  4. 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger IF ICT is appropriately deployed to take into consideration people’s differing needs, it can become a powerful economic, social and political tool for the poor, and for all those who work to eradicate poverty

  5. ICT can help reach this objective by: • stimulating macroeconomic growth; • making markets more efficient; • improving social inclusion; and • Facilitating political involvement. Examples: ACP-EU Joint institution: Centre Techinque d’Agricole (CTA)

  6. 2. Achieve universal primary education • The average length of schooling in high-income countries is ten years, • but in developing countries it is approximately less than half (4.6 years)

  7. What can be done to improve the situation? • Increase access to education through Distance Learning • Training teachers as a spearhead group • Broadening the availability of good quality educational material, such as educational videos/DVDs • Use technology such as WorldSpace satellites

  8. 3. Promote gender equality and empower women • Increasing economic opportunities for Women • ICT can enhance a woman’s ability to know her rights and participate in decision making • But what about the cultural aspects? • To what extent will these be able to be surmounted? • Personal belief that ICT will have a difficult job in bringing about this change

  9. ICT and Health: 4. Improve maternal health 5. Reduce child mortality 6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases But what about cultural and religious aspects?

  10. 7. Ensure environmental sustainability

  11. 8. Develop a global partnership for development • Good governance (transparency) • Encourage mutually beneficial partnerships such as that between India and Mauritius • Encourage deregulation of telephone services • Encourage the development of information gateways such as EuForic or the Development Gateway

  12. Conclusions • Promotion of ICT will raise the likelihood of obtaining the MDGs • However, ICT is not a miracle solution and ICT has to be implemented taking into consideration local conditions • Spearhead groups should be encouraged (Encourage the early adopters) • And traditional distribution of information should not be left too far behind

  13. www.acp.int

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