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Discover how IT can revolutionize development processes, promote worker productivity, boost trade, streamline social services, foster community engagement, and optimize donor activities. Overcome key challenges in project management, such as high administrative costs, lack of transparency, local involvement scarcity, and industry entry barriers. Join DevelopmentEx, the premier platform for development professionals, to access a global network, reduce costs, enhance local capacity, and foster transparency.
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DevelopmentEx.com Utilizing IT to Improve the Development Process
How IT Can Promote Development 5 ways IT can help 1 Improving worker productivity 2 Promoting trade and markets 3 Delivering social services more efficiently 4 Promoting community and democracy • 5 Increasing the efficiency of the donor process
Problems with the Donor Process issues companies/NGOs face High Administrative Costs – How can I manage international projects with onerous government regulations inexpensively? Lack of transparency – How can I find out what projects are out there and what they entail? Dearth of host country involvement – Where do I find professionals local to the country where the project is based, instead of staffing only Western consultants? Small number of firms/NGOs dominate the field – How can an “outside the Beltway” firm/NGO break in?
DevelopmentEx Accomplishments leading website for development professionals Building a community of development professionals – 75,000 Global Development Briefing subscribers Reducing administrative costs – nearly every major US-based development firm/NGO is a premium (paying) member, plus several abroad Promoting local capacity – approx. 10,000 consultants and firms/NGOs from around the world are registered (free) members, marketing themselves for development project work Creating transparency – more than a dozen researchers around the world systematically tracking development projects
Looking Ahead change factors for DevelopmentEx and donors Untied aid agreements Internet-based bidding systems Increased transparency in procurement process Partnerships between for-profit and non-profit organizations More South-South development projects