how icts improve development works?
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How ICTs improve development
works?Road Safety Consultative Meeting
August 18th, 2014
What is ICT4D Cambodia Network?
The ICT4Development in Cambodia network began activities with a brief meeting in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, August 14-15, 2012.
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What is ICT4D Cambodia Network?
A group of Inter and Local NGOs in Cambodia works on leveraging Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
Members of ICT4D Cambodia Network
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What is Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)?
ICT?ICT encompasses all communication technologies that disseminate, receive/gather or even store information.
includes both OLD technologies (radio, TV, print media) and NEW technologies (mobiles, Internet, smart phone, Social networks).
The development of the ICT tools
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What is ICT for development (ICT4D)?
What is ICT for Development (ICT4D)?
ICT4D? stands for the use of various forms of
communication technologies in development work to improve the life in developing countries; in term of “access to” and “skills” in the use of ICT.
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ICT for Education
ICT for Health
ICT for Business
ICT for Agriculture
ICT for Livelihood
ICT for Environment
ICT for learning...etc.
ICT for different aspects of Development
Explore the relationship with ‘I, C and T’ I and C of ICT is about having access to
relevant information and getting your voice heard
ICTs is not only about technologies BUT include ‘access to information’, ‘freedom of expression’
Promote transparency and accountability
Why ICT4D?
3 motivations to use ICT in development work
Improve better communication New technologies offer new
possibilities Closing Digital Divide
The term “digital divide” refers to the big gap between populations in the developed and developing world in terms of access to and skills in the use ICT.
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“The digital divide is also a cause of poverty...given that
lack of knowledge of rights and services is frequently associated with poor living
conditions, and ICT is an essential means of access to information and knowledge.”
Choosing the right ICT tools in development works
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Mobile trends in Cambodia
• 19 million mobile phones. • Only more than 2 million
Cambodians connected to internet• More than 1 million Cambodians
social media users
Source: http://www.socialmediacambodia.com/
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Mobile technology gives Cambodian a voice
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Interactive Voice Response (IVR) Systems
What’s Verboice?• Verboice is a customizable
application that empower user to build their own interactive voice response systems.
• An ideal solution for reaching out to communities whatever their level of literacy or technological sophistication.
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Easy to learn how to use
User are familiar 24/7 Reaching out
information at another levels where frequency of radio is not covered
Able to leave message
Interactive Voice Response (IVR) Systems
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Interactive Voice Response (IVR) Systems
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Open Development Cambodia
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Forest Cover Change (ODC)
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Reporting of cases of Gender Based Violence in Cambodia
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Reporting of detected cases of infectious diseases in Kien Svay Operational District
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Technology is not always worked somehow, dealing with that, simple solution introduced the Reporting Wheel overcomes this literacy barrier.
Reporting of detected cases of infectious diseases
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Report uncollected wastes in the piloted DaunPenh District
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Improvement of maternal health through media’s innovative tools
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“Do not say that what technology is, but say
that this is an issue and how can technology
improve this!
For technology is doable”
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if you want to introduce any technologies solutions Make that solution design based on what people
have (end users) Start first with the ‘Problem driven’,
what issue you want to address through technology?
Who is going to use technology (end users)? How (capable) will they use the system? what devices do they have?
How to make it scalable, cost effectives, and long-
term solution?
Recommendation
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Contact
012429597
www.ict4dcambodia.org
https://www.facebook.com/ICT4DCambodiaNetwork
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Thank You