eTransformation:

The Transformational Use 

of Information and Communication 

Technologies in Africa10 January 2013

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ICT Opportunity

6 billion+mobile users

worldwide

5 billion users in emerging and developing countries

Two-thirds of adults in sub-Sahara Africa have a mobile phone

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Joint study by African Development Bank and World Bank in collaboration with Africa Union

Made possible by the Korean Trust Fund on ICT4D

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The Report

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• Take stock of emerging uses and applications of ICTs that are having transformative effects of social and economic development – Share Experiences

• Identify key ICT applications (Africa and worldwide) that have the potential for replications and scaling up – Brainstorm what works

• Identify constraints that negatively impact ICT adoption and scaling up, including in policy and regulatory environment – Identify and overcome obstacles

• Develop a common framework among stakeholders, development partners and the donor community for future ICT interventions -- Collaborate

Objectives

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Sector Focus Areas

Agriculture Traceability technologies (RFID) in cattleWater management for irrigation

Climate ChangeAdaptation

Climate change adaptation, exploration of applications, tools and systems for adaptive action

Education Open schools through mobile technologies, education networking, monitoring student and teacher attendance

Financial Services

Mobile banking, cloud computing,

Health Mobile health, tracking patients, monitoring health clinics

Local ICT Sector

Business Process Outsourcing, mobile and online payment platforms, e-commerce

Modernizing Government

Citizen/community interface, eFiling for tax collection, link online payment system to IFMIS

Trade and Regional Integration

Linking regional trade entities (eg COMESA, ECOWAS, SADC), logistics, transparent flow of goods, customs standardization

Sectors and Case Studies

Both World Bank and AfDB have recently developed new Strategies based around

TransformationThree Pillars of WBG ICT Strategy

• Innovate – Support ICT innovation for jobs and competitiveness – Promote ICT skills to develop competitive

IT-based service industries in selected countries

– Promote ICT-enabled productivity gains across industries

• Connect – Scale up affordable access to broadband internet– Support policy and institutional reforms

for private investment in broadband– Selective support of PPPs in frontier

markets to promote affordable access for all

• Transform – Use ICT to transform service delivery across sectors – Promote open and accountable

development using open government, open data, and aid accountability

– Transform service delivery using ICT applications in economic and social sectors, and establishing cross-sector foundations

• Supporting regional integration• Supporting the Private Sector• Improving Governance and Accountability

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• The mobile phone has revolutionized communications in Africa The African mobile

market is now larger than either EU or USA

Mobile decade

Mobile subscriptions

(millions)

Annual % change in GDP, SSA

• Africa’s “mobile decade” has driven it’s economic growth 2000: 16m subs 2011: 649m subsSource: ITU.Source: World Bank.

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Empowerment

• ICTs are empowering the lives of Africans and are driving entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth

• Its not about the phone or the computer. Its about the applications and the information they deliver

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• ICTs can ease cross-border communications, financial transactions and sharing of data and information and have a catalytic impact upon regional integration and trade facilitation • The deployment of

ICTs and the development of applications must be rooted in the realities of local circumstance and diversity

ICT 4 D

Source: Pyramid Research.

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• Governments have an important role to play in creating an enabling environment and in acting as a lead client for large-scale ICT-based programs

• Effective use of ICTs requires cross-sectoral collaboration and an multi-stakeholder approach, based on open data and open innovation

The report profiles the South African Revenue

Service (SARS) eFiling tax system as an example of

government leadership in ICT applications

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• Africa is right at the start of its growth curve

ICT Programs

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• The World Bank and the AfDB already have considerable ICT invest-ments in Africa

• But, projectsare generallypiecemeal, rarely transformational, and are only a drop in the ocean compared with what could be achieved

• This project creates a platform for change

ICT Investment

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SSA Portfolio

Climate Change

Trade

Governance

Ener

gy

Agriculture

Heal

th

Finance

Transport

• ICT Sector Strategy, 2012-15:• Connect: US$575m in 11

ongoing projects in RCIP, WARCIP and CAB, and 15 N-LTA programs

• Innovate: 2 N-LTA Programs

• Transform: US$100m in eGovernment programs in 2 projects, plus 16 N-LTA• eTransform programs include

eAgriculture in Cote d’Ivoire, eProcurement in Rwanda, Open Gov in Burkina Faso and Nigeria, and community programs in Sierra Leone, Senegal and Tanzania

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Both the World Bank Group and the African Development Bank stand ready to assist our Member Countries in the Transformational Use of ICTs across African Society and Economy