On June 7-9, 2006, infoDev hosted a series of four workshops: Making e-Government a Reality: Strategies, Policies and Tools; Competitiveness: The Role of ICT; Scaling Up ICT-Enabled Entrepreneurship and Private Sector Development; Expanding Financial Services To The Poor: The Role of ICTs. All presentations from the workshops are available online.
Harnessing ICT For Development And Poverty Reduction
infoDev Day at The World Bank
Workshop 1: Making e-Government a Reality: Strategies, Policies and Tools
Workshop Agenda
Presentations:
- Keynote Speaker: Discussion of PREM’s vision and strategies on governance, Sanjay Pradhan, Director, PREM Public Sector Reform Group
- Strategic use of IT in Public Sector Reform: Professor Jerry Mechling, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government
- The Business of e-government: The Gartner Group
- National e-Governance Plan, India (via videoconference): Dr J Satyanarayana, Chief Executive Officer of National Institute of Smart Governance, India
- Ghana: Dr. Sam Somuah, Special Assistant, Office of the President
- Capacity building and Tools: infoDev Toolkit: Leslie Harris, Executive Director, Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), and Sarah Tish, Internews.
Workshop 2: Competitiveness - The Role of ICT
Workshop Agenda
Presentations:
- Information and Communication Technologies, Poverty and the Global Economy: Challenges and Opportunities for Developing Countries: A Framework for Analysis: Diane Coyle, Principal, Enlightenment Economics, London
- Increasing Competitiveness and Accelerating Growth through ICT: Lessons from Three Case Studies: Uganda, Tanzania and the Caribbean Region: Rob Henning, Manager, OTF Group, Washington, D.C.
- Improving Competitiveness and Increasing Economic Growth in Ghana: the Role of IT-enabled Services: Seth Ayers, infoDev
Workshop 3: Scaling Up ICT-Enabled Entrepreneurship and Private Sector Development
Workshop Agenda
Presentations:
- Mark Davies, Founder and CEO, Busy Internet, Ghana
- Zack Njuguna, CEO, e-Mart Business Solutions, Kenya
- R.M.P. Jawahar, Director, TREC-STEP Incubator, India
- Anne Moriss/ Louise Walker/Peter Harman, Monitoring & Evaluation team: Lessons from infoDev’s Initiative:
- Roberto Zavatta, Director, Economisti Associati: Financing Technology Entrepreneurs
- Roopen Roy, Managing Partner, Price Waterhouse Coopers, India: Best Practices on IT Parks
Workshop 4: Expanding Financial Services To The Poor - The Role Of ICTs
Workshop Agenda
Presentations:
- m-Banking Knowledge Mapping (Philippines): Neville Wishart, Consultant
- Branchless Banking (Brazil): Terry Gallagher, Consultant
- Safaricom (Kenya) - Nick Hughes, Vodafone
- WIZZIT (South Africa): Brian Richardson, CEO, WIZZIT
- Enabling Environment for Mobile Banking in Africa: David Porteous, Bankable Frontier Associates
- Expanding Financial Services to the Poor: Stephen Mwaura Nduati, Payments Systems, Kenya Central Bank
- Telecom Regulation - Bill Kerr-Smith, Principal Industry Specialist,