Korean Trust Fund on ICT4D - Project Proposal & Awards

the Korean Trust Fund on ICT4D

The Korean Trust Fund on ICT4D awards grants to World Bank projects and activities submitted along cross-cutting strategic themes. To ensure that there are strong linkages between proposals and the strategic objectives of the Bank in ICT-for-Development, through this call for proposals, we are particularly interested to support strategic flagship projects that are cutting edge and that generate cross-border knowledge and capacity development related to priority ICT4D 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.

WHO CAN APPLY

Staff members of all World Bank Group (WBG) operational units are eligible to submit applications to finance projects which show the development impact of ICTs in developing countries and which are relevant to the WBG operational agenda. The Trust Fund supports both recipient-executed and Bank-executed activities.

We encourage WBG staff to be innovative in their proposals within the following three themes:

• Access to ICT Infrastructure and Services -  Provision of ubiquitous, cost-effective and user-friendly ICT infrastructure and services to developing countries, particularly to underserved and rural areas, in a manner that addresses existing market gaps in these countries; 
• Mainstreaming the use of ICT in key sectors – Integration and effective use of ICTs as a tool in key economic and social sectors for development; 
• ICT-enabled Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Use of ICTs to enhance the competitiveness of developing country economies, enterprise creation, (particularly at the SME level), and how ICTs can be used to harness innovation in developing countries for generating employment, economic prosperity and inclusion in the global knowledge society and economy.

PROJECTS AWARDED

1st Round of Proposals (2008)

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

2nd Round of Proposals (2009) - No-objection has been received from the Government of Korea.

infoDev is happy to announce that the Selection Process for the Second Call for Proposals of the Korean Trust Fund on ICT4D is now completed.  The following projects have been selected for funding:

1. Computerization of land record in AP: Impact and the next steps – TTL Klaus Deininger
2. The use of Mobile phones in education in Developing Countries – TTL Mike Trucano
3. M-PB mobile technology as complementary ICT tool for participatory budgets – TTL Mark Nelson
4. Using Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Data Infrastructure for monitoring development outcomes – TTL Marisela Montoliu
5. Building a toolkit on broadband strategies for Developing Countries – TTL  Juan Navas-Sabater
6. Peer-to-peer Networks for ICT enabled Government transformation – TTL Laurent Besancon
7. Creating an ICT4D Innovation Platform – TTL Seth Ayers
8. Mobile Services and Applications for Sectoral Development – TTL Christine Zhen-Wei Qiang
9. Extending mobile applications in Africa through social networking – TTL Tim Kelly

Please note that for each of the proposals, the funding from the KTF on ICT4D will only be committed after No-Objection from the GoK has been received, Grant Agreements have been signed in the case of recipient executed projects and GFR process completed for Bank executed proposals. infoDev cannot be held responsible for any funds committed or expensed before the signature of the Grant Agreements or completion of the GFR process.

The date for the 3rd "Call for Proposals" has not yet been fixed but will be announced on the infoDev website as soon as possible. For more information on this program please contact Catherine Burtonboy (202) 473-9816 or by email at cburtonboy@worldbank.org

To download the Request for Proposal Full Text, click on the link below: