2. Agenda
1. Four current sources
ICT4Ag Kigali 2013 conference
b. INTRAC M&E workshop 2013, ICT track A & track B
c. eCampaigning Forum mailing list Dec 13 - Feb 14
d. #ICT4d
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2. A personal filter - to start a conversation
‘our future is mobile’, M Zuckerberg (et al)
b. open & crowd
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3. Options for HAI & DigitalElders
3. ICT4Ag 2014 - staggering range
1. Startling innovation
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e.g. WeFarm, satellite imaging for water management
at plot level; ruggedised server broadcasting
educational content in rural areas, balloon-mounted
adapted near-infrared camera
2. Digital invention outside OECD
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eg Multi-media Farming Instructor
3. Scale and integration - third generation
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e.g. m4agriNEI, mFarm, Esoko, farmerconnect
4. Evolution of good practice in Development
e.g. Grameen Community Knowledge Worker (CKW)
& local content & fake ag input products & m-finance
o agTube, digitalgreen
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4. ICT4Ag 2014 (cont)
1. Lessons of essential good practice in ICT4D
have been learnt, but not always:
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User centred development (vs tech opportunism)
Appropriate technical support
Consider finance & business models from first ideas
Integrate issues of gender equity
2. Trust is a constant theme in development, but
ICT4D brings in different perspectives
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trusting data, channels, people online rather than f2f,
mobile money and its agents
3. Mobile Finance
‘m-finance is to the bottom of the pyramid as the
banking sector was to the industrial revolution’
o eg mPesa, VirtualBank; YellowPepper (LAC)
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5. eCampaigning
A maturing field, integrated organisationally, with a
standard set of tools & fewer ‘shiny toys’
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Online social networks
territorial variation is important eg MxIT
o issues with FaceBook, LinkedIn - range vs
commercial, fast-moving organisations
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Mass mail
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Multi-media campaigning
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myriad examples
videos (including PV) eg VAW, infographics, photovisuals, animations eg KingsFund integrated care
e-campaigning support tools
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change.org vs 38degrees & controlshiftlabs.org
6. Mobile Digital Devices
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Reach, growth, convergence and new-tech
still accelerating
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WhatsApp etc - cheap text + few functions
Integration - still most powerful strategy
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Information Ecosystem of Southern Policy Actors
eg Radio, SMS, Interactive Voice Response (IVR),
TV, staffed helplines eg Trac FM, infosaid,
Organisational management & efficiency eg GOAL
Ireland in Syria
Integrated services eg mapping & weather & farms,
or market matching (mobile, radio web)
Targetted m-apps
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eg i-cow
7. Open & Crowd….
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Data - Open Data Research Network
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large scale data collection - for M&E, for dialogue
(eg perceptions of services), community group
management, advocacy (NB Avaaz vs bottom-up)
Sourcing ideas for a project - IDEO
Views on a project - MAVC
Mapping
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eg PPGIS, geolive
Solutions o
e.g weFarm based on affinity groups and natural
wish to help those in similar situations
8. Options for HAI & DigitalElders
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Mainstreaming ICT4D within HAI ?
Staff competency standards & capacity needs
o A core enabler rather than a strategic priority?
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Digital Literacy or Digital Rights?
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capacity development with and through youth, HAI,
HAI partners?
Partner
with specialist innovators (as in MAVC) or
programmes (eg Open Data Research)
o thematic development leaders using ICT4D eg
UNICEF or Oxfam or Gates
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