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Progresses and challenges in the development of the Information Society in LAC

Progresses and challenges in the development of the Information Society in LAC. Néstor Bercovich nestor.bercovich@ cepal.org Information Society Programme Innovation and ICT Unit - DPPM. ECLAC Information Society Programme. A brief overview.

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Progresses and challenges in the development of the Information Society in LAC

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  1. Progresses and challenges in thedevelopment of theInformationSociety in LAC Néstor Bercovich nestor.bercovich@cepal.org Information Society Programme Innovation and ICT Unit - DPPM

  2. ECLAC InformationSocietyProgramme A brief overview

  3. Contributestothedevelopment of Information Societiesin LatinAmerica and theCaribbean • Monitoring and diagnosis of progress made in building the IS in Latin America and the Caribbean • Policy recommendations on national e-strategies • Identification of best practices in several sectors of IS in order to strengthen regional cooperation • Technical Assistance for the development and implementation of national e-strategies • Statistical harmonization through its Observatory for the IS in LAC (OSILAC) • Technical Secretariat of the Regional Action Plan for the Information Society (eLAC2010)

  4. World Bank OSILAC • Working together with: • Partnership on Measuring the ICT for development • To define and gather a common set of ICT indicators and to help developing countries in their efforts to produce statistics of the information society: http://measuring-ict.unctad.org • Since 2003

  5. eLAC2010 A Regional Action Plan for the Information Society

  6. A platformforthecoordination of ICT Policies • Regionally concerted strategy that conceives ICTs as instruments for economic development and social inclusion • Based on short-term action plans with quantitative and qualitative goals • eLAC2007: 30 goals and 70 activities (2005-2007) • eLAC2010: 83 goals (2008-2010)

  7. Nextsteps eLAC2010 Progress Meeting: establishing priorities for the IS of the Future December 2009 2nd Meeting for Monitoring of the eLAC2010 Plan September 2010 2015 MDG WSIS III LAC Ministerial Conference on IS Lima - Perú. November 2010 Public consultation process eLAC2010 final stage of monitoring Follow-up of Working Groups activities

  8. 1. e-Education 2. Access and infrastructure 3. e-Health 4. Public management and e-gov 5. Production sector and e-business 6. Policy instruments and strategies Priorities of eLAC2010

  9. Digital Divide A regional issue still to be solved

  10. The digital divide • Advances in telecommunications infrastructure, but clearly inadequate for current demands. • Wide dissemination of the mobile phone (mostly prepaid and used by large segments of the population of LAC just for incoming calls). • Clear limitations of broadband in terms of coverage, speed and high prices. • Limitations in connectability.

  11. ICT Penetration level in LAC countries and in OECD countries 2002 y 2008 (Population Percent %) 120 OECD ALC 100 80 60 40 20 - 2002 2008 2002 2008 2002 2008 2002 2008 2002 2008 2002 2008 PCs Mobile phones Internet Fix line Broadband Bandwidth Subscribers (Mbps) / 1000 habitants . Source: ECLAC, Observatory of the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean (OSILAC), based on information of the International Telecommunications Union, “World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database 2009” The LAC penetration gap with developed countries

  12. Monthly cost of fixed broadband of 1 mbps in relation to monthly GDP per capita (in %) Corea del Sur 0,04% EE.UU 0,26% Portugal 0,27% Nueva Zelandia 0,43% Australia 0,47% España 0,56% Suecia 0,57% Canadá 0,86% Trinidad y Tabago 1,29% México 2,68% Argentina 4,87% Panamá 5,10% Costa Rica 5,11% Rep. Bol. Venezuela 5,20% Brasil 5,32% Chile 5,36% Uruguay 6,24% Jamaica 7,03% El Salvador 14,14% Colombia 17,14% Rep. Dominicana 17,95% Ecuador 20,30% Guatemala 24,07% Paraguay 27,43% Perú 32,03% Nicaragua 58,02% Honduras 96,41% Est. Pl. Bolivia 97,68% Source: ECLAC (2010) The gap in demand: affordability and use

  13. A new gap: transmission capacity (En kbps / habitant) 700 600 500 LAC EU 400 300 200 100 0 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Source: Hilbert, M., P. López, and C. Vásquez (2010), "Information societies or 'ICT equipment societies'? Measuring the digital information processing capacity of a society in bits and bytes". The Information Society 26(3). Note: The capacity calculation is performed by the product between the amount of subscribers to the different technologies and corresponding transmission rate. Total transmission capacity of broadband in LAC countries and Europe to cable modem and DSL technology

  14. The internal gap: access to Internet in the richest households 44 times higher than the access of poorest Internet-connected Households Quintil 5 Quintil 4 Quintil 3 Quintil 2 Quintil 1 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 BRA URY CHL MEX CRI PAN VEN COL ECU PER BOL HND PRY SLV NIC GTM 07 07 06 07 08 07 07 07 08 08 07 07 07 07 06 06 Source: ECLAC, Observatory of the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean (OSILAC), based on the information channeled through households survey of National Statistics Centers. Most recent year available.

  15. Progress The regional situation with reference to IS

  16. The progress in e-Gov • Uneven progress across countries in public services on the Internet: Colombia and Chile are above the average of developed countries, but a large set of countries in the region lags far behind. • All countries have government portals and portals of government procurement • Delayed incorporation of ICT in local government • The bandwidth limitation prevents further development of online government

  17. Government portals in all countries: most are already transactional Transactional Non transactional Source: Monitoring of eLAC2010 based on relevant websites

  18. The great debt with local governments % of municipalities with Website in selected countries - 2009

  19. The progress in e-education: expanding the coverage and quality of education • Several countries in the region have implemented ICT policy in education. • Change in vision: it shifts the emphasis in the provision of infrastructure to the importance of ICT to improve teaching and learning processes. • Limitations in access to educational content appropriate for national realities. • Importance of educational portals and networks.

  20. Multiple national initiatives Chile: project “ENLACE” aims to reach a rate of one computer for every 20 students in 2010 Brazil: 70% of urban public schools already with broadband connection. Expected to reach 92% before 2011 Colombia: “Computadoresparaeducar” and “Colombia Aprende”: 134 827 computers to schools (2009). México: Digital capabilities for everybody (2009). Source: Monitoring of eLAC2010 based on national information

  21. National inititiatives 1 to 1 Uruguay: CEIBAL Plan provides for 315.000 computers for public primary school students (100%). Perú: 153.000 computers for primary school students. Argentina: National Campaign for Digital Literacy: 250.000 computers for students and teachers from 3rd party, 4th, 5th and 6th years of all technical schools (100%). Nicaragua: 100 schools benefited from digital backpacks. Source: Monitoring of eLAC2010 based on national information

  22. …and connectivity limitations for e-education INTERNET ACCESS IN SCHOOLS 2008-2009 1= very limited access 7= the majority of students have frequent access to Internet Source: World Economic Forum, Executive Opinion Survey 2007, 2008 .

  23. Progress in e-health • Increase in public and private initiatives, but lack of comprehensive public policies (from telephone lines to sophisticated data transmission) • Designed to: • extend health care to remote sites • to bring low-complexity health center closer to more complex, • timely epidemiological information and • training of personnel in remote

  24. Progress in e-production Brazil 2009: 95% of companiesusing Internet 16% withbroadbandaccess Companies with Internet access, Web presence and Companies that receives Internet-based queries, by number of employees Brazil 2007 Source: Monitoring of eLAC based on cetic.br 2010 2007Note: The universe of companies is investigated segments of the 1.0 NACE sections D, F, G, H, I, K and Section O (no groups 90 and 91)

  25. Export of ICT services (including software) has grown more than the total export of countries 2006-2008 Average annual growth rate of ICT services exports in selected countries Source: Monitoreo eLAC2010 sobre la base de informaciones del BM

  26. Final Remarks A chance for doing better

  27. ICT and thepresentchallengesfor LAC • Structuralproblemshavelimitedthepath of thecountriesthrough full economicand social development • Gap persist: • Social gap (poverty, exclusion and inequality of income distribution) • Productive gap (investment, productivity and innovation) • Environmental gap (low carbon production) • Fiscal gap Actual most relevant challenge: thinking ICT within a long-term strategy in order to face the structural challenges that push on the present development model of the region.

  28. Some of the main challenges

  29. Thank you very much for your attention. For more informationpleasevisit: www.eclac.org/socinfo

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