think! at the observatory on ict for no-profit organizations- milan
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THINK! The Innovation Knowledge Foundation
Roberto MasieroPresident THINK!The Innovation Knowledge Foundation
Roberto MasieroPresident THINK!The Innovation Knowledge Foundation
ICT and Non-Profit : Tales of innovation
Milan, 22/11/2010, Bicocca CampusICT Observatory of Non Profit
Summary
1. Innovation, Digital Technologies and Human Development
2. ICT4D: Tales of innovation from the developing countries
3. ICT for environmental and energy sustainability4. For Profit or Non-Profit?
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THINK! (The Innovation Knowledge Foundation) THINK! is an international non-profit research institute – a think tank – whose aim is to collect, process, share and circulate information concerning the ways in which ICT, digital and science-driven technologies can enable innovation processes, economic growth and human development in mature, emerging and less developed countries in an era of energy and environmental sustainability.
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THINK!: an international think tank, independent and non profit
Esther Duflo’s lessons
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Co-founder of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
She is a recipient of the 2010 John Bates Clark Medal for economists under the age of forty
• Academics versus practitioners
• “ Our duty is to make available our knowledge of technology to the development of less developed countries “
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IT Investiments and development: from neo-liberal theories…
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY(hardware, software, applications
and telecommunications)
HIGHER PER-CAPITA
INCOME AND GDP
FLEXIBLE SUPPLY CHAINS
ACCESSIBLE AND FLEXIBLE WORK OPPORTUNITIES
INCREASED EFFICIENCY
HIGHER QUALITY GOODS AND SERVICES
BETTER DECISIONS MAKING TOOLS
LARGER AND MORE EFFICIENT MARKETS
NEW RESEARCH TOOLS
LESS SEVERE ECONOMIC DOWNTURNS
FASTER PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH
INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
MORE JOBS LOWER INFLATION
ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS
LOWER PRICES
HIGHER WAGES
INCREASED TAX REVENUES
Source: ITIF
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Sustainability as a: “Supply Chain across Generations”
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Sustainable development is defined as development that "meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”- Brundtland Commission, 1987
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
ECONOMIC PROSPERITY
ENVIRONMENTALSTEWARDSHIP
Driving sustainability improvements
“You can’t change what you don’t measure…”
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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGYIN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
BETTER PUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY
REDUCTION IN HUMAN ISOLATION
ACCESS TO GLOBAL MARKETS FOR LOCAL SMEs
MORE JOBSMORE EFFICIENT SUPPLY CHAINS
HIGHER EFFICIENCY OF INTERNAL RETAIL SYSTEMS
NEW SECTORAL TOOLS (E-HEALTH, E-SCHOOL, E-INCLUSION)
REDUCTION IN INFORMATION ASYMMETRIES
POVERTY REDUCTION
HIGHER PER-CAPITA GDP
BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE
HIGHER HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
HPI-2
HDI
…to a new concept of human development
Source: ITIF
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Positioning mature & emerging Countries in terms of access to digital technologies vs. human development
DOI-HDI Correlation for Selected Nations
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Digital Opportunity Index (DOI)
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INDIA
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EGYPT
COLOMBIA
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MEXICOMALAYSIA
RUSSIA
CHILE
UAEESTONIA
KOREA
SPAINITALY US
FINLAND CANADA
SINGAPORE
UKSWEDEN
BRASIL
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SOUTH AFRICA
MAROCCO
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Tales of Innovation :Hole-In-the-Wall Education, India, Bhutan, Cambogia, Africa
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Hole-In-the-Wall Education
Tales of Innovation: eHomemakers, Malesia
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eHomemakers
Tales of Innovation:Sambaina ICT Village, Madagascar
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Remote Operation Centre in Mahobong
Support Centre at DiPSA – Milan
Satellitar Connession through Infopoverty satellitar platform
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Sambaina ICT Village
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Tales of Innovation:Akshaya e-Centres, Kerala, India
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Akshaya e-Centres
How ICT can help in enabling a sustainable enterprise
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Prevent magazine obsolescence by Lean
Manufacturing and donation program to
non-profits
Measure Impact of Supply Chain to
embedded energy, water and GHG
Identify environmental
friendly and fair trade sourcing options for
raw materials
Reduce waste, increase recycling
with take-back service for end-of-
life products
Lower environmental
impact of shipping, delivering and goods
packaging
Use LCA in designing sustainable products
and processes
www.ICT4Green.eu
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ICT for energy and environmental sustainability
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Nonprofit
s
• Encourage or force disclosure of corporations’ environmental commitments and performance
– The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) about GHG– Greenpeace campaign on consumer electronics– Fair Trade campaigns, Local NGO
Government
• Disclosure requirements, Cap & Trade– GHG emissions for large emitters
• Mandatory and opt-in environmental labeling– EU mandatory labeling of energy-using /related
products– Energy Star label in the U.S.
Business
• Voluntary disclosure of sustainability efforts– Wal-Mart launched the Sustainability Index:– Patagonia publishes the “Footprint Chronicles” – Financial sustainability Indexes: DJSI, FSTE4GOOD
• New services guiding consumers– Good Guide environmental, health and social index of
over 60K products
Nonprofits, Governments and Business Supporting Consumer’s Increasing Demand For Transparency
New Zealand
USA
European Union
www.ICT4Green.eu
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Who gets the e-waste trash?
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Il Diamante dell’innovazione DigitaleQuality of Life
ICTIndustry
eGovernment
Investing in digital infrastructure
Overcoming the Digital Divide
Benchmarking Innovation Policies
ICT & Produtivity Sustaining the
competitiveness of local enterprise systems
EducationHealthcare
Digital Cities and Infomobility
eInclusion
Sharing processes
Sharing information
Sharing IT solutions
THINK!:the “Diamond” of DigitalInnovation
ICT4D
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ICT and Non-Profit Organizations
• At the moment, except for some rare cases, in Italy Non-Profit organizations are very fragmented and have only occasional and marginal links with ICT…
• …on the other hand the ICT Industry has barely a vague knowledge of the Non-Profit Sector and of its potential…
• .. As a result ICT Industry is often simply recycling in this sector general purpose products…
• … and the “NonProfit Manager” often remains an Oxymoron.
For Profit or NonProfit?
However Non-Profit Organisations can play a key role:• in promoting the use of ICT to facilitate human
development• in ensuring energy and environmental sustainability of
New Technologies (Apple/Greenpeace case)
Furthermore Non-Profit may open-up new big markets as Quality of Life, eInclusion, Education and Healthcare both in Mature and in Less Developed Countries, that until now have been barely addressed due to the short-sighted views of most of the ICT Vendors
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Orchestrating for Profit and Non-Profit for the Human Development
So the future lies in a big effort for opening communications and “orchestrating” the joint commitment of Non-Profit Organizations and of socially responsible ICT Companies.While they are pursuing different sets of objectives, they may have a number of common interests that can favour the deployment of a wider concept of human development.
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Roberto MasieroPresident THINK!
Mail: [email protected]
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