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Title: Towards Meaningful ICT Indicators for Developing Countries


1
Towards Meaningful ICT Indicators for Developing
Countries
Government and Education
Dr. Ahmed M. Darwish EGYPT
2
Agenda
  • Why?
  • What?
  • Macro-level Indicators
  • Micro-Level Indicators
  • Observations
  • Recommendations
  • Egypt Efforts

3
Why?
Why
  • E-readiness assessments
  • Guide development efforts by providing benchmarks
    for comparison and gauging progress
  • Determine the current situation in order to plan
    for the future and advocate specific changes
  • Help Policy and decision makers.

4
ICT Indicators
Level
  • ICT indicators measure
  • Readiness
  • Use/intensity
  • Impact
  • Outcome
  • Macro Level (Global) Indicators Country level
  • Micro Level (Local) Indicators Ministries,
    Governorates, Directories, and Individual
    Administrative Units.

5
What?
  • Infrastructure and access indicators
  • Households and individuals indicators
  • Business indicators
  • ICT impact indicators
  • ICT in education
  • E-government
  • ICT for health applications
  • Indigenous status
  • Content

6
Macro Level ICT Indicators
  • Telephone Network
  • Carrier services
  • Fixed telephony services
  • Mobile telephony Services
  • Other services (Data Services)
  • Private network services
  • Data transmission services
  • Traffic
  • Staff
  • Quality of Service
  • Tariffs
  • Revenue and Expense

7
Macro Level Indicators
  • Capital Expenditure (Investment)
  • Broadcasting
  • Information Technology
  • Internet Indicators
  • Internet backbone services
  • Internet access services
  • Other internet telecommunications services
  • Household levels
  • Accessibility
  • Broadcasting
  • Policy and regulations

8
Micro level Indicators
  • Methods for Gathering information through
  • Personal interviews
  • Telephone interviews
  • Computer based questionnaires
  • Internet Service Providers (ISP) surveys
  • Internet traffic and web site analysis
  • Other sources and methods used in private sector
    surveys

9
Observations
  • A range of assessment tools
  • developed to measure a country ICT e-readiness
  • 16 just in the past few years!
  • (Mostly Macro country level)
  • Tools widely vary in
  • Definitions
  • Methods of measurement
  • Assessments vary considerably in
  • Goals
  • Results!!
  • ?No standard e-readiness assessment policy
  • No global unified set of ICT Indicators.

10
Problem / Opportunity
  • These reports are gaining popularity
  • They are used by Investors and Donors
  • Some of them achieved credibility

11
Recommendations
Can we re-think
  • Review formulas to reflect realistic meaning full
    situation
  • Q? Is it sound/fair to relate to population?
  • Q? Will it be more reasonable to think of
    population (demographic) structure?
  • Mechanism to collect and update
  • Are we all using the same definition for the
    same year for all measured data?

12
Egypt Efforts
EGYPT
  • Ministry of State for Administrative Development
  • Got the mandate to
  • Measure and Publish
  • ICT readiness on the micro-level

13
Objectives
Scope
  • Measure the level of information technology use
    in government organizations to
  • Enhance the level of performance of work cycles
    in administrative units of the state.
  • Improve efficiency of performance and work among
    government organizations.
  • Facilitate and help civil servants and IT staff
    for better use of information technology.

14
Benefits
  • Create an effective e-culture and work field
    environment in government administration units in
    coordination with IT representatives of
    ministries and administrative units.
  • Study the impact of Readiness Index on the
    economic and investment environment of the state
    to attract investment in Egypt.
  • Contribute to the enhancement of the
    International competitiveness index for Egypt.
  • Create opportunities for e-government candidate
    projects

15
Procedure
  • An Initial scan questionnaire to measure internal
    ICT infrastructure has been developed and
    distributed.
  • A database was designed for the collected data
    and deduced results.
  • Some statistical analysis have been performed on
    the collected results.

16
Details
  • Initial scan questionnaire w2ere designed to
    evaluate the ICT infrastructure readiness of both
  • Central Government Local Governorates and
    Directories (579 Unit - 229350)
  • The questionnaire was divided into 7 sections
  • Hardware and Peripherals
  • Networking facilities
  • Software and applications
  • Internet and Web presence
  • Human resources
  • IT usage plan
  • Security and protection systems

17
Produced Bi-Annually
  • A 2nd questionnaire was designed to measure the
    work automation, work cycle and readiness to
    offer e-government service.
  • It has 11 sub index categories to measure and
    assess.
  • The same procedure was followed to calculate
    outcome results

18
Glimpse of 1st release
  • 81.1 of government departments use office
    applications.
  • 94.5 of computer (PC) users in Government are
    not from an Engineering/Computer background nor
    did they have a formal certificate of computers
  • (Just regular training courses or sessions)
  • ?Shows how employees are interested to upgrade
    themselves and
  • how do they think that ICT is an important
    factor for career pursuing.

19
Response 163 out of 229 in Central Government
  • Of surveyed government entities
  • 66 have e-mail
  • 60 have web sites
  • 84 of those who have a web site update it
    regularly (term regular vary in definition!)
  • 31 use an Intranet
  • 36 exchange some data with other entities over
    the Internet
  • 76 have plans for upgrade and development.

20
Response 333 out of 350 entities in Local
Government
  • Of surveyed government entities
  • 19 have e-mail
  • 22 have web sites
  • 58 of those who have a web site update it
    regularly (term regular vary in definition!)
  • 8 use an Intranet
  • 13 exchange some data with other entities over
    the Internet
  • 29 have plans for upgrade and development.

21
Glimpse of 2nd release
  • 58 of government departments have work
    automation strategy and plans (86 central 34
    local).
  • 40 of government departments have undergoing ICT
    projects (51 central 30 local)
  • the overall number of ICT projects is 279 (169
    central 110 local).

22
Central Government
  • Of surveyed government entities (163)
  • 67 have citizen complain system
  • 66 provide internal training facilities for
    their employees
  • 69 of ICT projects are financed by the
    government
  • 75 has internal technical support

23
Local Government
  • Of surveyed government entities (333)
  • 68 have citizen complaint system
  • 50 provide internal training facilities for
    their employees
  • 55 of ICT projects are financed by the
    government
  • 50 has internal technical support

24
Education
  • 38K schools
  • All connected to Internet
  • (dial-up, less than 1000 via DSL)
  • All have computer labs
  • (ration is smaller than 1 PC for each 20
    students)
  • New Project Smart Schools
  • Use Computers for teaching
  • Ratio 1 PC for every 5 students
  • Make sure at least 2 contact hrs per day

25
  • Thank you
  • For more information
  • Please visit us
  • http//www.ad.gov.eg
  • http//www.egypt.gov.eg
  • Or contact us
  • darwish_at_ad.gov.eg
  • info_at_ad.gov.eg
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