IDRC

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IDRCs ICT4D

• Mission
• Public corporation created by the Parliament
  of Canada in 1975 to help researchers and
  communities in the developing world find
  solutions to their social, economic
  environmental problems
• Program Initiatives
• Information Communication Technologies for
  Development (ICT4D)
• - Pan Asia Networking (PAN)
• Social Economic Equity
• Natural Resource Management

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PAN Strategic Objectives

• To pilot demonstration, proof-of-concept,
  experimental and applied research ICT projects in
  disadvantaged communities within target countries
  in Asia
• To strengthen research and development capacity
  to apply ICTs in education, health, and
  employment at the community level
• To encourage governments in their ICT policy
  formulation and related research to give priority
  to enabling the spread of ICTs to remote
  communities

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PAN Strategic Objectives

• Of Note to APNG .
• To encourage the advanced-technology countries in
  Asia to engage in capacity-building and in the
  coaching of slower adopting countries, through
  the promotion of research collaboration and
  networking
• To network digital pioneers in the region and
  foster broad research partnerships for sharing
  and learning from each other and for articulating
  regional concerns at international fora

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Strategic Approaches

• Create/seize opportunities for concerted,
  collaborative ICT work
• that
• interests other donor ICT investors in the
  region to collaborate
• (2) facilitates regional ICT groups to be
  involved in ICT work in developing countries

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Strategic Partners

• Partnerships in ICT programmes/projects
• International Foundation for Agricultural
  Development (IFAD)
• Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme
  (APDIP)
• Asia-Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC)
• Rockefeller Foundation
• ASEAN Foundation
• Asian Development Bank

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Strategic Modalities

• ICT RnD Small Grants Competition Asia Pacific
• The Digital Review of Asia Pacific
• The Asia ICT4D Collaboratory - REST
• PanAsiaNetworking All-Partners Consortium
  Conference, Vientiane, 24 Feb 01 Mar 2003
• Internet governance
• Local Fonts, Unicode Open Source Software

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Partnerships with APNG

• APNG Groups partnership with PAN
• iDNS MINC Consortium supported by PAN
• ICT RnD Grants Programme - focusing researchers
  on ICT innovation
• - APDIP joins IDRCs PAN in funding the Jan
  2002 competition
• - APNIC joins IDRCs PAN in funding the Sept
  2002 competition
• - Regional Committee Members Li Xing (China)
• Salman Ansari (Pakistan) Esther Williams
  (Fiji)

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Involving APNG

• The Digital Review of Asia Pacific reports on
  state-of-practice
• of ICTs and innovations for socio-econ
  development in the region.
• Panel of Authors (Initial List)
• Bangladesh Samudra E.Haque Nepal
  Basantha Shrestha
• Brunei Mahmud Mohd Daud New Zealand David
  Anthony
• Bhutan Gopi Pradhan Pakistan Altamash Kamal
• China Li Xing
• Cambodia Norbert Klein Papua New Guinea Peter
  Mamfu
• HongKong Pindar Wong Philippines Boying
  Lallana
• India Madanmohan Rao Singapore Goh Seow Hiong
• Indonesia Onno Purbo South Korea S.H. Kyong
• Iran Masoud Chitsaz South Pacific Robert Guild
  
• Japan Izumi Aizu Sri Lanka Nakala Guwardene
• Laos Phonpasit Phissamay Taiwan Ching-Yi Liu
• Maldives Midhath Hilmy Thailand Hugh
  Thaweesak Koanantakool
• Malaysia Zaharom Nain Tibet Yang Yong
• Mongolia Baljin Narantsetseg Vietnam Nguyen
  Trung Quynh

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How can PAN add value to APNG ?

• PAN works with least developing country partners
  in Asia by supporting their ICT field
  applications projects
• - telecenters, development oriented ISP
  activities, distance education technologies,
  e-commerce, innovative web applications,
  telemedicine, GIS, fonts, OSS issues women in
  ICTs
• PAN wants its least developing country partners
  to network with APNG

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An Invitation to APNG

• to contribute to the PAN All Partners Conference
• _at_ Vientiane, 2003 by
• Integrating a plenary and/or training programme
  on Internet governance issues
• thinking about the prospect of a future PAN-All
  Partners Conference combined with APNG Conference
  that could equate to a regular Asian ICT
  Conference, with majority Asian participation, an
  Asia agenda that is also meaningful to Asias
  least developing countries, and attended by them
  as well

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Its Over to APNG

• Any other suggestions?
• Feed back soonest to
• MNg_at_idrc.org.sg