Innovation Journalism Program Pakistan

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Innovation Journalism Program Pakistan

• Amir Jahangir
• Innovation Journalism Program, Pakistan
• Stanford University
• 21 May 2007

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Journalism in Pakistan

• News
• Current Affairs
• Politics
• Sports
• Entertainment
• Finance, Economic and Business News

• What is missing?
• Technology and Innovation Economic Impact

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Pakistan and Innovation Journalism
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The goal is to increase public focus on
innovation, competitiveness, business and
technology, Omar Ayub Khan, Chairman,
Competitiveness Support FundNovember 2005
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Linking Finance to Innovation
CompetitivenessCompetitiveness Support Fund
Partners
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Operational Windows of the CSF
2006
2006
2007
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INNOVATION JOURNALISM PROGRAM
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Innovation Journalism Program for Pakistan
Phase Two
Innovation Journalism Program, Pakistan
Phase One
Phase Three
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Innovation Journalism Program

• Increase public focus on innovation and
  competitiveness, business and technology through
  media
• Improve communication within and across sectors
  and clusters

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Phase 1 International InJo Program at the
Stanford University

• 2006-2009 - 12 leading Pakistani journalists will
  participate in the Innovation Journalism
  Fellowship Program.
• Each Fellow will refine expertise in reporting on
  innovation and become a part of the INJO
  community.
• The Program will
• Bridge technology and business reporting in
  Pakistan
• Pakistani reporting linked with newsrooms in the
  US and other countries.

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Phase 1 TCI Annual Conferences

• Participation of 13 leading journalists at The
  Competitiveness Institutes Annual Conferences
  2006 -2009
• Interaction with journalists and cluster
  practitioners
• Brainstorming on leading issues concerning
  competitiveness
• Involving the private sector

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The Selection Criteria

• A committee of senior journalists and media
  professionals selects the Fellows for the
  Innovation Journalism Program.
• The selection criteria is based on
• Understanding of innovation concepts
• Experience and track record
• Influence amongst contemporaries
• Aptitude for innovative thinking

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Selection Process for the InJo Fellows
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Media Organizations Involved in the Innovation
Journalism Program
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The Innovation revolution has already started
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Progress for the Phase 1 (2006-2007)

• Participation as INJO Fellows 2
• Participation at TCI Conferences 3
• No. of journalists involved (print) 185
• No. of journalists involved (electronic) 68
• No. of News Articles in Print 523
• No. of News Stories/Packages on Electronic
  Media 54

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Phase 2 Capacity Building of
Working Journalists

• Interactive workshops and training sessions for
  working journalists in collaboration with WEF and
  INJO Program 9 Pillars of GCR
• InJo Fellows to be mentors for these interactions
• Subsequently participants to increase public
  focus through news, articles and reports
• Journalist of the Year Awards 9 Pillars

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Innovation Journalism Competitiveness Support
Fund World Economic Forum
Global Competitiveness Report 91 /
125 2006-2007 94 / 114 2005-2006
Global Information Technology Report 84 /
115 2006-2007 67 / 114 2005-2006
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Methodology for the Global Competitiveness Index
Has 9 Key Pillars
Weighting of Global Competitiveness Index 9
Pillars - INJO
Ranks. Basic Requirements
(50) Weight Pak India 1.
Institutions 12.5 79 34 2.
Infrastructure 12.5 67 62 3.
Macroeconomy 12.5 86 88 4.
Health and Primary Education 12.5
108 93 Efficiency Enhancers (40) 5.
Higher Education and Training 13.3 104
49 6. Market Efficiency 13.3 54
21 7. Technological Readiness
13.3 89 55 Innovation and Sophistication
(10) 8. Business Sophistication
5.0 66 25 9. Innovation
5.0 60 26
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Methodology for the Global Information Technology
Index has 3 sub-indexes
Measuring the Network Readiness Index (NRI)

• The NRI is composed of three component indexes
  which assess
• environment for ICT offered by a country or
  community
• readiness of the community's key stakeholders
  (individuals, business and governments)
• usage of ICT among these stakeholders.
• Current state of the competitiveness in
  Pakistan's ICT (84/122)
• The global information technology report (2006
  -2007) Connecting to the networked Economy
  indicates that Pakistan has shown a gradual
  decline in last three years it has moved from 63
  in 04 to 84 in 07 The reports rankings for
  Pakistan out of 122 countries.

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Phase 2 Media Platforms to Enhance Innovation
Competitiveness

• Objective Creation of media platforms to
  highlight innovation
• Grants to media for successful projects with
  emphasis on innovative
• Processes
• Practices
• Ideas
• Success Stories
• projects on triple helix model

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PTV
GEO

• Increase innovation content in electronic media
• Daily 10 minutes news program on business and
  economy
• Program to run Monday Saturday
• TOTAL 52 hours annual airtime concentrating on
  innovation
• Next Weekly 25 minutes on WEF Pillars
  Innovation

• Documentary Competition on Innovation
• Grants upto US 12,500
• GEO Airtime and support in print, web and radio
• 4 documentaries
• Innovation Management
• Innovation Ecosystem
• Innovation - Technological Readiness
• Innovation for Poverty Alleviation

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Role of Innovation Journalism in Economic Growth
Boost Economic Growth
Journalists will be reporting on various issues
related to Innovation and Competitiveness
Improve Competitiveness of Pak. Economy
Better Employment/ Job Creation
Knowledge-based Enterprise Dev.
Upgrade Enterprise Competitiveness
COMPETITIVENESS SUPORT FUND
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Phase 3 New Resource Development

• Identification of four geographical regions
• Three universities from each region on the basis
  of their core competencies
• Business, economics
• Technology
• Journalism
• Institutions / Universities collect information
  on competitiveness and innovation on various
  industrial clusters
• Journalism schools to develop content for media
  on innovation and competitiveness.
• InJo Fellows will act as mentors along with the
  journalists involved in the capacity building
  initiative

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Universities for the innovation program
 
 
Qaid-e-AzamBaharia UniversityFatimah Jinnah
Women University
 
 
 
 
 
 
University of Peshawar M.I. Sciences
 
 
 
Baluchistan University or BUITMS
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
IBA NED University Mass Comm, KU
LUMS UET Punjab Univ.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Outcome of the Program

• The 3 year program will innovative thinkers
• Phase 1 24
• working journalists
• Phase 2 450
• Editors, working journalists management
• Phase 3 288
• Future media leaders
• TOTAL 762

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Thank You
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• Amir Jahangir
• Innovation Journalism Program, Pakistan
• Consultant,
• Competitiveness Support Fund
• 53, Street No. 1, F-6/3, Islamabad 44000,
  Pakistan
• Phone [phone] / 43
• Fax [phone]
• E-mail amir_at_csf.org.pk
• www.competitiveness.org.pk

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Back up Slides
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Global Competitiveness Report 2006
Pillar 1 Institutions (12.5 of GCI Score)

• Improvements 2005 ? 2006
• Diversion of Public Funds (to investments) 74 ?
  67
• Public trust in Government 83 ? 55
• Judicial independence 87 ? 80
• Favouritism in decisions of government officials
  68 ? 52
• Wastefulness of government spending 48 ? 42
• Business costs of terrorism 94 ? 55
• Weakening
• Property Rights 87 ? 95
• Burden of government regulation 101
  ? 122
• Ethical behaviour of firms 44 ?
  82
• Efficacy of corporate boards 116 ?
  123
• Protection of minority shareholders interests
  27 ? 57
• (Private sector)

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Global Competitiveness Report 2006
Pillar 2 Infrastructure (12.5 of GCI Score)

• Improvements 2005 ? 2006
• Overall infrastructure quality 77 ? 67
• Railroad infrastructure 59 ? 39
• Quality of port infrastructure 68 ? 52
• Weakening
• Quality of air transport infrastructure 53 ? 59
• Quality of Electricity supply 86 ? 87

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Global Competitiveness Report 2006
Pillar 3 Macroeconomy (12.5 of GCI Score)

• Improvements 2005 ? 2006
• Interest Rate Spreads 67 ? 37
• Weakening
• Inflation (hard data) 84 ? 99
• National Saving rate (hard data) 88 ? 92
• Government Surplus/Deficit (hard data) 64 ? 89
• Government Debt/GDP ratio (hard data) 68 ? 69
• Real Effective Exchange rate 38 ? 45

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Global Competitiveness Report 2006
Pillar 4 Health and Primary Education (12.5 of
GCI Score)

• Improvements 2005 ? 2006
• Net Primary Enrollment (hard data) 115 ? 112
• Weakening
• Infant Mortality 105 ? 109
• Business Impact of Malaria 62 ? 101
• Tuberculosis Prevalence (hard data) 93 ? 101
• Business Impact of Tuberculosis 51 ? 99
• Life Expectancy at Birth 93 ? 97
• Business Impact of HIV/AIDS 84 ? 89
• Malaria Prevalence (hard data) 84 ? 87

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Global Competitiveness Report 2006
Pillar 5 - Higher Education and Training (13.33
of GCI Score)

• Improvements 2005 ? 2006
• Gross Tertiary Enrollment Ratio (hard data) 109 ?
  106
• Extent of Staff Training 107 ? 91
• Quality of Math and Science Education 86 ? 85
• Quality of Educational System 89 ? 74
• Weakening
• Gross Secondary Enrollment Ratio 110 ? 112
• Local Availability of Specialized
  
• Research and Training Services 75 ? 83
• Quality of Management Schools 58 ? 71

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Global Competitiveness Report 2006
Pillar 6 Market Efficiency (13.33 of GCI
Score)

• Improvements 2005 ? 2006
• Hiring and Firing Practices 49 ? 26
• Time Required to Start a Business 33 ? 30
• Extent and Effect of Taxation 95 ? 33
• Ease of Access to Loan 73 ? 42
• Efficiency of Legal Framework 97 ? 91
• Cooperation in Labor-Employer Relations 95 ?
  77
• Intensity of Local Competition 79 ? 73
• Weakening
• Soundness of Banks
  34 ? 84
• Brain Drain 58 ? 73
• Foreign Ownership Restrictions 56 ? 72

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Global Competitiveness Report 2006
Pillar 7 - Technological Readiness (13.33 of GCI
Score)

• Improvements 2005 ? 2006
• Laws Relating to ICT 78 ? 65
• Weakening
• Cellular telephones
• (subscribers per 100 people-hard data) 111 ?
  115
• Personal Computers
  
• (per 100 people-hard data) 106 ? 113
• Internet Users
  
• (users per 10,000 people-hard data) 102 ? 107
• Firm-level Technology Absorption 47 ? 85
• Technological Readiness 74 ? 77
• FDI and Technology Transfer 40 ? 75

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Global Competitiveness Report 2006
Pillar 8 Business Sophistication (5.0 of GCI
Score) Part of the BCI

• Improvements 2005 ? 2006
• Quality of National Business Environment 75 ?
  67
• Weakening
• Value Chain Presence 35 ? 47
• Sophistication of Company 67 ? 72Operations
  Strategy

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Global Competitiveness Report 2006
Pillar 9 Innovation (5.0 of GCI Score)

• Improvements 2005 ? 2006
• Capacity for innovation 74 ? 38
• Intellectual property protection 79 ? 38
• Government Procurement for 52 ? 47
• Technology Product
• University /industry research collaboration 72
  ? 61
• Company spending on research development 59 ?
  51
• Quality of scientific research institutions 63
  ? 62
• Weakening
• Utility Patents (Hard Data) 78 ? 78
• Availability of scientists and engineers 67 ?
  78
• Technology Product

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