GATech Liberia ICT4D Project

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GATech Liberia ICT4D Project

• Michael L. Best
• Kipp Jones
• Illénin O. Kondo
• Edem Wornyo
• Dhanaraj Thakur
• Calvin Yu

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Project Goals

• Study the State and Potential of ICT in Liberia
• ICT Measures
• Measure ICT capabilities, infrastructure and
  plans
  
• Sectoral studies of ICT usage
• Financial Institutions
• Media
• Physical Security
• Port Authority
• User survey of ICT usage
• Mobile phone impact
• Internet impact
• Policies
• Policy development process and existing regime
• Feasibility of implementing new ICT strategies

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Initial Description

• Preliminary Schedule
• September instrument and framework preparation
• October field work
• November - December analysis and report Policy
  Processes
  
• Personnel and Travel Schedules
• Local Team Genesis TMG
• Travel Team Kipp, Edem
• In country October 1 - October 13
• Final Stakeholder Consultation Mike, Dhanaraj
• In Monrovia December or perhaps January?
• You all are welcome!

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Liberia ICT

• Focus on cataloging, mapping, and quantifying the
  existing ICT infrastructure and intended
  investments within Liberia.

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ICT Measures

• Standard Measures
• World Bank
• ITU
• IDRC
• Measure
• ICT Sector Structure
• ICT Sector Performance
• Progress
• Investment Plans Strategies
• Access Usage
• Physical Plant
• Legal and Regulatory Environment

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Key Participants

• Mobile Providers
• Celcom
• LiberCell
• Comium
• Lonestar
• Liberia Telecommunications Corporation (LTC)

• ISPs
• Data Tech
• Atlantic Wireless (LiberCell)
• Comium
• Government
• Liberia Telecommunications Authority
• Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications
• Office of the President

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Sectoral studies Scope

• Sectors
• Financial institutions
• Central Bank of Liberia, Private Banking
  Institutions
  
• Media
• Print media, Online media, Broadcast media
• Approach
• SRS Strategic ReStructuring
• Institutions, Structures, Coalitions, Leaders,
  Policy
  
• Impact Assessment
• Drivers of adoption and impediments
• Perceived benefits

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Sectoral studies Goals

• Current prospective use
• Organizational capability
• Operational impact
• Drivers and impediments
• Impact assessment
• Adoption roadmap
• ICT Capital iceberg
• Human Resources
• Process enabling ICT
• Hardware
• Software
• Connectivity
• Integration
• Local capacity
• ICT revolutionaries

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Sectoral studies Instruments

• ICT Capital
• ICT iceberg
• Multi-level survey
• ICT artifacts vs. business processes
• Adoption drivers vs. impediments
• Web Traffic analysis
• Investments
• Interlocutors
• Senior Executives
• HR Head IT Manager CFO/CPO
• Government Regulators

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Sectoral Studies Contd

• Physical Security
• Evaluate current security situation
• UNMIL, LNP, private security

• Port Authority
• Specifically investigate the impact of
  computers and communications in the port
  authority
  
• Evaluate current presence of ICT
• Recommend future development

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User Surveys

• Specifically investigate and quantify the impact
  of mobile phones and the Internet on Liberians
  
• Provide data on existing ICT services
• Governmental services
• Other services
• Evaluate present customer satisfaction with
  existing services
  
• Forecast future services in ICT sector based on
  survey
  
• Framework for invigoration of current services in
  ICT sector
  
• Benchmark for investment in the general ICT sector

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ICT Policy Processes - Objectives

• Understand the structure through which ICT
  policies are developed and implemented in
  Liberia
  
• Assess the feasibility of implementing proposed
  ICT strategies

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ICT Policy Processes - Approach

• Policy Formulation
• Stable Parameters
• External Events
• Policy System

• Policy Implementation
• Scope of Policy problem
• Capacity of policy/law
• Non-statutory factors
• Implementation of Policy

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Questions?Comments?