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ICT Impact Assessment and Capacity building for ICT measurement in Arab region

Ministry of communications and Information Technology. ICT Impact Assessment and Capacity building for ICT measurement in Arab region. A project approved by the council of Arab Ministers of Communications in the framework of the Arab strategy towards the Information Society. Outline.

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ICT Impact Assessment and Capacity building for ICT measurement in Arab region

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  1. Ministry of communications andInformation Technology ICT Impact Assessment and Capacity building for ICT measurement in Arab region A project approved by the council of Arab Ministers of Communications in the framework of the Arab strategy towards the Information Society

  2. Outline • About the project • Egypt expertise • Project Objectives • Expected Outputs • Project Partners • Project Management • Budget and Timeline • Project Roadmap

  3. About the Project • This project lies within the framework of the “Arab strategy towards the information society” through the League of Arab States. • This project represents phase TWO of the project that was implemented under the title of “ICT Indicators and Capacity building for measuring in Arab Region”within the period of 2010 – 2012. • The project was first declared during the “Connect Arab summit” in 2012 which was held in Qatar. • The project was built on the Information Center of Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT-IC) expertise in the field of Assessing the impact of the ICT sector.

  4. Egypt expertise • The Information Center of Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT-IC) has combined several tools to help assess the impact of the ICT sector:

  5. Project Objectives • Increasing the awareness of the importance of impact assessment indicators and studies for policy making and planning. • Identifying the best practices for data collections, extrapolation, analysis and processing. • Building human resources capacity within NSOs and Ministries of Communication on data collection methods to measure the economic indicators for ICT and use these indicators for further analysis to assess impact. • Improving the mechanisms of obtaining data and statistics and utilizing input/output table in such way to separate the ICT sector from any other sectors. • Benefiting from the Egyptian expertise in the field of collecting, manipulating, processing and analyzing data of input/output tables in order to reach some impact assessment results: backward and forward linkages, demand and supply multipliers.

  6. Expected Outputs • An inventory of literature review, studies and best practices in the area of measuring “ICT impact on the economy”. • Series of workshops and capacity building sessions to build human resources within the NSOs and ICT Ministries/Regulators on methodologies to measure the economic indicators of ICT and its impact on economic development. • A database containing a set of ICT economic indicators produced by Arab countries to be able to measure the performance and impact of the sector in the region.

  7. Project Partners • The regional office of the “International Telecommunication Union”. • The Information Center of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. • ESCWA • OECD • World bank + All the 22 Arab countries

  8. Project Management • Steering Committee (including ESCWA, OECD and Worldbank). • Executive Director of the project (Dr. Ebrahim El Haddad, Regional Director, ITU Regional Office for the Arab States) • Project Coordinator (Dr. Nagwa El Shenawy, MCIT-IC)

  9. Budget and Timeline Dec. 2013 150,000 CHF June 2012

  10. Project Roadmap June 2012 December 2013

  11. Thank You . . .

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