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LANDSCAPE, NOT ARCHITECTURE. Maximising ICT in development. What’s it all about?. Technology, fundamentally, is a means, not an end in itself Technologists, therefore, need to think more like engineers than architects Architects work within their environment
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LANDSCAPE, NOT ARCHITECTURE Maximising ICT in development Dan McGarry, CTO PiPP
What’s it all about? • Technology, fundamentally, is a means, not an end in itself • Technologists, therefore, need to think more like engineers than architects • Architects work within their environment • Engineers adjust their environment… • … making life easier for architects Dan McGarry, CTO PiPP
ICT Policy Efforts in Vanuatu • National ICT policy • ICT for everyone • Emphasis on education (reflects capabilities as well as interest) • WSIS definition of multi-stakeholderism • ‘Policy as a process’ • ‘Pragmatic’, ‘private’, based on best practices Dan McGarry, CTO PiPP
ICT Policy Efforts in Vanuatu • Cybersecurity Policy • Develop organisational structures (i.e. Vanuatu CERT or equivalent) • Define mandatory technical standards • Build legislative/regulatory framework • Improve awareness, understanding • Improve international cooperation Dan McGarry, CTO PiPP
ICT Policy Efforts in Vanuatu • Universal Access Policy • By 1 January 2017 98 percent of the Vanuatu population shall have (and continue having after this date) access to: • Voice • Narrowband • Broadband (42/23 Mbps) • Minimum quality standards Dan McGarry, CTO PiPP
Building an environment Dan McGarry, CTO PiPP
From the bottom up… • Seeding network effects • ‘Get your eyes on the prize’ • Help people see what’s NOT there Dan McGarry, CTO PiPP
Build outward, not upward • ‘Shared understanding’, especially around the edges • Emphasis on informal, explicit, specific learning • Applies to ‘experts’ almost more than others Dan McGarry, CTO PiPP
School (as in fish) • ‘Understanding’ in detail • Emphasis (again) on informal, explicit, specific learning • Includes ‘soft’ (i.e. informal) as well as technical education Dan McGarry, CTO PiPP
Little Red Hens • Statements of principle are great, but useless alone • Commitment is the application of money, means and will • Commitment happens at all levels Dan McGarry, CTO PiPP
Case study #1 Dan McGarry, CTO PiPP
Case study #2 Dan McGarry, CTO PiPP