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Title: INDIA ICT FOR DEVELOPMENT


1
INDIA ICT FOR DEVELOPMENT
  • UNDP - INDIA

2
ICT AGAINST ODDS
  • Communication technologies yet to connect
    millions
  • Remote areas shrouded in communication darkness
  • Inequalities keep the poor/women on other end of
    digital divide.
  • Limited Citizen to Citizen (C2C) or Citizen to
    Government communication.
  • Technology focus keeps stakeholders out.
  • Few community-based business/sustainable models.
  • Limited local level capacity

3
RESPONSIVE GOVERNMENT?
  • A. Setting a sound policy framework
  • Tenth Five year Plan (effective communication
    facilities in rural and tribal areas)
  • Perspective plan for the 1997-2007 (consolidation
    of the connectivity)
  • New Telecom policy 1999 (infrastructure and
    information key to economic and social
    development)
  • State level IT policies
  • Information Technology Act 2000, Draft
    Communication and Convergence Bill 2000
  • National Task Force on IT and Software
    Development (1998) (long term IT plans developed)
  • MOCIT working group on IT for masses

4
RESPONSIVE GOVERNMENT (Cont.)
  • B. Developing an infrastructure base
  • Department of Telecommunications plans
  • Provisions of Optical fibre in major transmission
    routes
  • Upgradation of transmission systems from Analog
    to Digital
  • Setting up National internet backbone
  • Provision of internet services to all the
    district HQs
  • Introduction of the WLL technology
  • State Governments efforts
  • Connectivity Backbone - Hybrid consisting of OFC
    and VSATs
  • Last mile connectivity - LAN or wireless
    connectivity

5
Responsive Government? (Cont.)
  • C. ICT in Development Sector
  • EDUCATION - tele-education
  • HEALTH - Telemedicine for delivery of health care
    to remote locations
  • E-GOVERNANCE - seamless transfer of information
    between offices dealing with administration in
    the Centre as well as the State, develop suitable
    software package for EG, amendments in Central
    and State Acts, rules and regulations
  • DISASTER MANAGEMENT- GIS, remote sensing, cyclone
    forcasting
  • Multi functional Converged Applications Community
    Centres

6
CIVIL SOCIETY INITIATIVES
  • Technological and social solutions to poors
    accessibility to ICT
  • Gyandoot Village level kiosks operated by
    panchayats.
  • Bhoomi on-line system for land records
  • Jal chitra a software for water mapping
  • NDDB on-line diary management
  • Lokmitra on-line processing of bills/forms
  • Saukaryam Municipal Corporation online civic
    services
  • VOICES social change communication through
    community radio

7
UNDP INDIAs ONGOING ICT INTERVENTIONS
  • Access to Information, Transparency in
  • Governance, Stakeholder Participation
  • A systematic Approach to Decentralized Planning
    for District development in MP and Chattisgarh
  • Citizens access to information providing various
    citizen services with Govt. of Chattisgarh
  • Creation of Community Info centres for interface
    with citizens with Govt. of Uttaranchal
  • Improving Citizens access to information through
    rural/urban kiosks in 5 states
  • Post Quake Development of Information System for
    reconstruction in Gujarat
  • Post super cylcone information dissemination on
    rehabilitation schemes of government and
    non-government agencies in Orissa
  • Community radio initiative
  • APDIPs initiative on regional HDR ICT for
    Human Development

8
UNDP INDIA AND FUTURE PRIORITIES
  • Issues
  • Digital divide Who will benefit and who will be
    left out?
  • Digital Divide reflection of deeper social and
    economic inequalities gender, caste, literacy
  • Who drives the information citizen or
    government?
  • To what extent ICTs facilitate peoples
    participation in planning?
  • Need for focus on Information and Communication
    who needs to communicate with whom and for what
    purpose.

9
EMERGING AREAS (2003-2007)
  • Country Programme Outline (2003-2007) ICTs for
    people-centered development under all 4 thematic
    areas
  • The promotion of human development and gender
    equality
  • Capacity building for decentralization
  • Poverty eradication and sustainable livelihoods
  • Vulnerability reduction and environmental
    sustainability
  • ICT programmes to be innovative, catalytic,
    crosscutting

10
Specifically
  • Support platforms for policy advocacy on legal
    frameworks
  • Support open source software development/centre
  • Support innovative field interventions in
    decentralized planning, C2C interface, livelihood
    security, disaster management through community
    radio, ICT kiosks.
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