Intro to ICT4D and telecentres for Public Management and Policy (PMP) MS students at USI, Lugano, 25 October 2012

1. Sara Vannini
NewMinE (New Media in Education) Lab

3. ...international
...marginalized social groups

4. EU enlightenment
Linear progress
Economical, social and
political welfare

5. Pb ?

6. Europe-centred
No sufficient
consideration of
Pb ? earlier traditions,and
of moral and ethical
dimensions
Relies mainly on
economic indicators

7. and

8. Access
Health
Education
Participation/Governance
Entrepreneurship
Agriculture
Culture
Emergencies

9. ITU establishes a commission
to examine the worldwide
telecommunication
development

10. infoDev (Banca Mondiale),
International Institute for
Commnication and Development
(IICD ), Global Digital
Divide Initiative (World
Economic Forum), World
Development Report (Banca
Mondiale), Acacia, African
Information Society Initiative,
Canada’s Intern Development
Research Centres (IDRC),
Y2K...

11. Collaboration among governments
(donors and receivers);
multi-stakeholders
interventions;

12. (Geneva, Tunis)
Action Areas
e-government, e-business,
e-learning, e-health,
e-environment, e-agricolture,
e-rural.

14. New opportunities for
underpriviledged areas to
catch up

15. New opportunities for
underpriviledged areas to
catch up
Accentuation of uneven
development – rich remain
competitive

17. Inequalities among groups in terms of
access to
actual use of
ability to (use of)
impact of
ICTs.

18. Based on income
age
education
gender
ethnicity
geography (urban vs rural + country)

19. vs

20. vs
Factors that Physical availability
influence people of ICTs, infrastructure
to use technologies

21. major to access

22. major to access
Literacies
Content relevance
Culture of information
Cost of information
Technophobia
Complexity of ICTs
Power/Control

26. 1 Household = 1 Computer
it does not work

28. A public place where people can access computers,
the Internet, and other digital technologies
to enable them to gather information, learn, and
communicate with others, while they develop
essential digital skills.

29. Digital Divide
Inclusion
Information Society

30. 1983 – Harlem, USA
1985 - Sweden

31. Scandinavian Model
Anglo-Saxon Model

32. Scandinavian Model – community/rural development
Anglo-Saxon Model – profit/commercial oriented

33. 1990s – exported to Developing Countries

34. ITU, UNESCO, USAID, ...

35. • Urban / rural
• Multi-purpose / narrow focus
• Stand-alone / attached
• Community-based / establishment
• Independent / networked
• Profit-oriented / service-oriented
• Publicly funded / privately funded

36. NEWMINE LAB – USI, Lugano
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique

38. (2011)

39. C M Cs i n M oz a mbi q ue
2000 UNESCO
2000-2004 8 CMCs in Mozambique (Community
Radios 1990s)
2004-2005 scale-up phase (plan: 50 new CMCs)
2010 MZ Ministry of Science and Technology
(128 districts)
2011 34 CMCs

41. local languages

42. oral communication

43. electricity

44. effective
synergies

45. digital literacy
courses

46. high maintenace
costs

47. little
contextualization

48. photocopies

49. appropriation

52. in-bound
within community
out-bound

53. in-bound
within community
out-bound

54. e-rural
e-government
e-learning e-environment
e-health e-business
e-agricolture

55. sara.vannini@usi.ch
www.newmine.org
www.react-project.ch