Korean Trust Fund on ICT4D

the Korean Trust Fund on ICT4D

The $15 million dollar Korean Trust Fund on ICT4D is administered by infoDev and supports projects that demonstrate cutting-edge ICT4D solutions for economic and social growth and poverty reduction.

The Korean Trust Fund on ICT4D awards grants to World Bank projects and activities submitted along cross-cutting strategic themes. To make sure the supported projects work towards achieving the strategic ICT4D objectives of the Bank, this fund prioritizes flagship projects on the cutting edge, that generate cross-border knowledge and build capacity in  priority challenges. These priority challenges include:

• Use of ICT for economic and social integration of rural areas;  
• Broadband connectivity;  
• Innovative applications in health, education, agriculture and rural development, clean technology and public financial management; 
• ICT-enabled enterprise creation; 
• Mobile applications.

Since its inception in 2008, the Korean Trust Fund on ICT4D has attracted a great deal of interest within the World Bank Group. In FY09 (calendar year 2008), infoDev issued its first Call for Proposals. Nine projects, funded to a total of $2.86 million, were selected from across the World Bank Group. 

impact

 

Already, the Korean Trust Fund on ICT4D has had a big impact on ICT4D around the world. Key results include:

• The wildly successful EVOKE, a social network game that empowers young people all over the world, and especially in Africa, to come up with creative solutions to our most urgent social problems. EVOKE ran from March to June 2010 and attracted more than 19,000 players and social innovators from 150 countries.
• Fingerprint technologies will be used to track school attendance in Malawi to increase school completion  rates, and to check farmer credit histories in Morocco to improve rural access to credit.
• Public and private sector capacity to scale up mobile banking programs will be improved, based on a study of practices in Brazil and five Asian countries.
• E-government applications will be developed in Indonesia, and an investment plan to expand the IT enabled services (ITES) market in Bangladesh.  
• Training programs on ICT skills are being established in Mozambique.

PROJECTS AWARDED

2008 Projects

1. ICTs for Youth Innovation: Social Entrepreneurship in Africa
2. Maintreaming the use of ICT and MIS in irrigation water delivery services
3. Mobile Banking Users and Non Users Behavior Study
4. Leveraging ICT for Bangladesh's Growth and Competitiveness
5. Study on Broadband Policy in Korea: Lessons for Developing Countries
6. Building Blocks for E-Government Capability
7. New Economy Skills for Africa - Information and Communication Technologies and Education
8. Technological Innovations in Rural Malawi: A Field Experimental Approach
9. E-monitoring of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Rural Morocco

2009 Projects

1. Computerization of land record in AP: Impact and the next steps
2. The use of Mobile phones in education in Developing Countries
3. M-PB mobile technology as complementary ICT tool for participatory budgets
4. Using Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Data Infrastructure for monitoring development outcomes
5. Building a toolkit on broadband strategies for Developing Countries
6. Peer-to-peer Networks for ICT enabled Government transformation
7. Creating an ICT4D Innovation Platform
8. Mobile Services and Applications for Sectoral Development
9. Extending mobile applications in Africa through social networking

more information

Download these flyers on the Korean Trust Fund on ICT4D and the online social innovation game, EVOKE. 

Project Concept Notes (PCN)

The Korean Trust Fund on ICT4D is no longer accepting project proposals from World Bank TTLs at this time.