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Sustainability in ICT Development Projects
  • A short presentation on types of ICT projects and their sustainability
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Sustainable Development
  • Sustainable economic development it’s not merely a matter of projects and statistics, is a matter of people, real people, with basic needs, food, clothing, shelter an medical care.
  • …resources should be channeled to those that globalization has left behind.
  • K. Annan 1996
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Assumptions
  • All ICT projects benefit citizens directly or indirectly and as such are critical to the nations’ development
  • Where applicable, ICT projects are designed with sustainability in mind.
  • All efforts are made to make them sustainable and not to implement unsustainable initiatives
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Types of ICT initiatives
  • Studies and research (TAs);
  • Pilots, e.g. full-scale project incubators;
  • Policy, strategy and legislation;
  • Community access and infrastructure;
  • ICT literacy, technical capacity building;
  • Social services: Financial, Education, Health, including E-Services from Government to Citizens;
  • E-Government.
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Project Implementation Stages
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"The type of project and..."
  • The type of project and process determines the design and sustainability options
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Social Services, pre-requisites
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Best practice