Knowledge Sharing for Development

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GKP_at_WSIS From Geneva to Tunis Presentation by
Rinalia Abdul Rahim Executive Director, Global
Knowledge Partnership GKP Africa Day, 30
February 2005
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Overview

• ABOUT GKP
• MULTI-STAKEHOLDER PARTNERSHIPS
• GKP VISION MISSION
• STRATEGIC FOCUS
• GKP MEMBERS
• GKP ACTIVITIES
• GKP_at_WSIS
• GKP in Africa MENA

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What is GKP

• Established in 1997
• A membership-based global network focused on ICT
  for Development (ICT4D)
• - open to organizations
• - multi-stakeholder membership composition
• - covers all regions and all sectors

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REGIONAL REPRESENTATION OF GKP MEMBERS
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SECTORAL REPRESENTATION OF GKP MEMBERS
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About GKP

• Worlds First Multi-Stakeholder Partnership in
  the area of ICT4D
• Currently 92 members based in 40 countries
  comprising
• governments donor agencies
• international institutions (including UN
  agencies) and international networks
• Private sector companies
• NGOs
• academia and media organizations
• Promotes and practices partnerships as a
  mechanism for meeting development challenges
• Researches partnership experiences in ICT4D
  involving the public, private and not-for-profit
  sectors

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• Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships
• defined
• Working collaborations
  between parties drawn from
  Governments, Business
  Civil Society organizations
• Strategically aggregate the resources and
  competencies of each party to resolve key
  development challenges
• Founded on the principles of shared risk, cost,
  contribution and mutual benefits

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Value of a Multi-stakeholder Partnership in
Global Policy-making
WSIS

• MULTI-STAKEHOLDER
• Perspectives
• Experiences
• Learning
• Analysis
• Resource Mobilization
• Implementation

G8 Dot Force
UN ICT Task Force
WEF
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GKP Vision

• A world of equal opportunities
• where all people are able to
• have access to and use
• knowledge and
• information to improve
• their lives

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• Strategic Focus
• 2001-2005
• Facilitate advocacy in Global
• Policy Dialogues on ICT4D
• Provide services that enhances
• collective efficiency and
• effectiveness in ICT4D
• Increase availability of
• information and knowledge on
• ICT4D and empowerment

GKP MISSION
Promote effective access to knowledge and
information as tools of equitable sustainable
development Share
information, experiences and resources to realise
the potential of ICT to improve lives, reduce
poverty and empower people
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Network Management and Coordination
EXCOMM
Coordination Member Engagement
Facilitation Partnership Facilitation Relationsh
ip Facilitation Resource-Mobilization
Facilitation Knowledge Aggregation
GKPS
Regional Focal Points
Thematic Focal Points
Regional Networks
Thematic Clusters
Regional Activities/Projects /Programs
Thematic Activities/Projects/Programs
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Activities

• Networking
• Sharing Knowledge
• Forging partnerships

Global (South-South North-South) Regional
Thematic

• Advocating for change

WSIS, WSSD, WEF, G8 Dot Force, UNICTTF

• Raising Awareness
• Building Capacity

Youth, Women, Media, Parliamentarians Seed
Grants for small innovative projects Poverty
reduction, Womens Empowerment, Youth
Participation, Indigenous and Displaced
Communities

• Demonstrating impact
• of ICT4D

Collaborative Awards - recognizing excellence
Youth, Media, Gender, Poverty Reduction
Local Content Global Knowledge Conferences (GK97,
GKII) ICT4D Platform K4D Publication Series
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GKP in WSIS Phase 1

• Advocacy on the Multi-stakeholder Partnership
  approach
• Knowledge contributions
• - Regional input
• Africa, LAC, Pacific, CEE, MENA
• - Thematic
• Youth, Gender, Media, Poverty Reduction,
• Financing Mechanisms, Local Content, Internet
  Governance
• ICT4D Platform

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PrepCom-1 (July 1-5, 2002 Geneva, Switzerland)
PrepCom-3 (September 15-26, November 10-14,
December 5-6, December 9, 2003 Geneva,
Switzerland)
PrepCom-2 (February 17-28 2003 Geneva,
(Switzerland)
WSIS Phase I (December 10-12, 2003 Geneva,
Switzerland)
Pan European Regional Conference (November 7-9,
2002 Bucharest, Romania)
Asia-Pacific Regional Conference (January 13-15,
2003 Tokyo, Japan)
PrepCom-1(June 24-26 2004 Hammamet, Tunisia)
Latin America Caribbean Regional Conference
(January 29-31, 2003 Bavaro, Dominican Republic)
Pan-Arab Regional Conference (June 16-18, 2004
Cairo, Egypt)
Africa Regional Conference (May 28-30, 2002
Bamako, Mali)
Africa Regional Conference (February 2-4, 2005
Accra, Ghana)
Pacific Islands Regional Consultation on WSIS
(April 9-11, 2003 Suva, Fiji)
GKP Engagements in the WSIS Process
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Convening ICT4D Stakeholders globally

• Continuing the GKP tradition
• GK97
• Global Knowledge Conference
• GKII
• Second Global Knowledge Conference
• ICT4D
• Platform

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16,000 visitors
245 exhibitors from 80 countries 50 panels and
70 conferences
Brought together key ICT4D players in the
world Multi-stakeholder in composition

• Illustrated the potential of ICT based on what
  has been achieved on the ground/possible
• Fostered environment for action- based
  partnerships, financing, etc.

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GKP Engagement in WSIS Phase 2

• Task Force on Financing Mechanisms (TFFM)
• Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG)
• GKP Stocktaking on ICT4D Initiatives
• Follow-up to the ICT4D Platform
• Events
• Regional
• 1. Africa Regional Preparatory Meeting (February
  2005), Accra, Ghana
• GKP Regional Meeting
• Thematic
• 2. International Conference on Multi-stakeholder
  Diplomacy
• (February 2005), Malta
• 3. Indigenous Peoples in the Information
  Society Delivering on the Plan of Action
• (March 2005), Ottawa, Canada

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UN Task Force on Financial Mechanisms for ICTD

• The TFFM was formed to assist the UN
  Secretary-General to review existing financing
  mechanisms and consider innovative financing
  approaches to applying ICT4D.
• GKP representative to the TFFM,
• Michael Chertok, Digital Divide Data
• GKP has contributed our input to the Task Force
  Report
• Final TFFM Report released in early January 2005
• http//www.itu.int/wsis/tffm/index.html
• Next Steps?
• GKP is preparing paper on a MSP/consortium
  approach to financing
• If you have interest to discuss, email
  michael_at_digitaldividedata.org

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GKP Position on Financial Mechanisms for ICTD
Priorities for ICTD We believe that a critical
priority and opportunity in financing ICTD is in
the area of poverty eradication, particularly in
ways that reach youth and women. Public
Private Partnership We strongly urge that this
section should include a discussion of
multisector or Multi-stakeholder partnerships,
and specifically suggest a role for NGOs as well
as governments and private sector in such
partnerships. Role of Multilaterals and the
Private Sector With regard to the private sector,
it is important to differentiate
commercial/business investments and social
entrepreneurs, philanthropic investments or
donations
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Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG)

• WGIG was established after WSIS Geneva to prepare
  the groundwork on Internet Governance issues, for
  a decision at WSIS Tunis.
• GKP Representative to the WGIG
• Jovan Kurbalija, DiploFoundation

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Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG)

• GKP Position
• Protect public interest and promote the concept
  of the Internet as a global public good
• Promote a development agenda as well as
  interdependence between IG and development
  issues.
• Next Steps?
• The WGIG will meet again in February prior to the
  WSIS Preparatory
• Committee, in order to provide the first input
  for the PrepComm.
• Contact Jovan Kurbalija at jovank_at_diplomacy.edu

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GKP Stocktaking on ICT4D initiatives
Sharing knowledge of the GKP network based on
experiences of concrete ICT4D initiatives on the
ground

• Publication on ICTs, MDGs and the Information
  Society will be developed
• based on the stocktaking, as GKPs official
  submission to Tunis 2005 and
• the Millennium5 Summit in 2005.

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GKP in Africa Middle East

• GKP Regional Focal Point for Africa Economic
  Commission for Africa (ECA)
• Contact
• Ms. Aida Opoku-Mensah,
• Officer in ChargeEmail aopoku-mensah_at_uneca.org 

GKP Regional Focal Point for MENA Science Arts
Foundation, Iran Contact Ms. Melody
Mohebi Email mohebi_at_saf.ir

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GKP Outreach in Africa

• GKP Partnership Meeting, Addis Ababa, 1999
• GKP Annual Meeting, Addis Ababa, 2002
• WSIS Regional Conference, Bamako, Mali, 2002
• Media Forum and Business Forum
• ICT4D Platform, Geneva 2003
• Panel on Africa
• GKP Regional Meeting, Accra, Ghana, 2005
• Scope study
• ICT4D organisations in Africa

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Yeomans Award for Local Content 2nd Call for
Africa-based projects

• GKP, the Open Knowledge Network (OKN) and
  OneWorld Africa invite Africa-based projects to
  submit applications for the Yeomans Award for
  Local Content.
• This is a re-advertisement for applicants for the
  African category of the Award.
• Projects from Africa which applied for the first
  round but were not short-listed should not
  re-apply.
• One award of USD2,500 will be given out to the
  winning application.
• Applications to the Award can be made online at
  http//www.globalknowledge.org/yeomans/africa or
  by requesting a form from yeomansaward_at_globalknowl
  edge.org.
• Deadline for submission - 15 February 2005.
• The result will be announced by the end of
  February 2005.

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GKP Africa Initiatives

• Collaborative Awards
• Gender and ICT Awards 2003
• Outstanding Multistakeholder Initiatives
  (National/Local)Documenting Experiences of Women
  in Situations of Armed Conflict in Uganda-
  Isis-Women's International Cross Cultural
  Exchange (Isis-WICCE), Uganda
• Youth Awards 2003
• Rwanda Youth Rehabilitation Initiative
• - Suba Youth Training Programme ("The Bridge")
• - The Impact of HIV/AIDS in Katutura
• Media Awards 2003
• Ansbert Ngurumo, Tanzania. Tadaferua Ujorha,
  Nigeria.
• 2004 Panos/GKP Media Awards
• Sam Olukoya, Nigeria

• Seed Grant and Small
• Innovative Projects Fund
• (SGSIP)
• Grant recipients from Africa for 2004
• Category ICT for Women's Empowerment
• 1.Radio Listening Groups on Violence Against
  Women,
• Association of Media Women in Kenya (AMWIK)
• 2.Training centre to promote free and open
  source solutions for girls' and women's
  empowerment,
• Women's Net, South Africa
• Grant recipients from Africa for 2003
• 1. Capacity building for women and youth
  operators for Nigerias first rural ISP,
• Fantsuam Foundation
• 2.Improving rural development in the Upper Nkam
  division in Cameroon through open and distance
  training programme for rural women, Protégé QV 

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Outreach in 2005 MENA region

• Engaging private sector and governments in the
  MENA regions
• Scope study
• ICT4D organizations in MENA
• Annual Meeting 2005 in Egypt, Cairo

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Find out more

• Visit the GKP Portal
• www.globalknowledge.org
•  or write to
• gkps_at_gkps.org.my