Download Global Information and Communication Technologies Department

E-Strategies and ICT Infrastructure
Policies and Regulations
ITU-WTO Workshop
Geneva Dec. 2004
Mostafa Terrab,
infoDev
1. Past and Present Examples
1. Ethiopia
2. E-Lanka
3. Tunisia
2. Typical Components of an E-Strategy
3. Critical Success Factors in Deploying E-Strategies
4. The “I” and the “E”
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Example: Ethiopia
• Objective: Assist Communities to Improve their Livelihood through the
Use of ICT that Facilitate Increased Access to Markets
Five Key Components:
• Enabling a Growth Enhancing Environment for Broadcasting
• Enable a Public-Private Partnership between Ethiopian
Telecommunications Corporation (ETC) and Private Sector Groups
• Support a Growing Private Sector ICT Business Community
• Support Successfully Tested Technologies for Targeted, Scalable
Interventions
• Create an Operational Ethiopian ICT Development Authority (EICTDA);
and a capable Ethiopian Telecommunications Authority (ETA) and
Ethiopian Broadcasting Authority (EBA)
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Example: Tunisia
• Objective: Development of Tunisia's ICT Sector
Key Components
• Assist in the development of an IT strategy, policy, and
regulation.
• Formulate an E-Government Benchmarking, and Strategy
• Develop E-Government Applications and Online Services
• Implement a Computer Risk-Prevention Model and, Strengthen
E-Security Research and Training Capacity
• Establish a Data Back-Up Center
• Establish an ICT Statistical and Economic Analysis Unit
• Regulatory Capacity Building
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Example: “E-Lanka”
• Objective: Establish an effective, citizen-centered and
business-friendly government
Six key components of the E-Lanka E-Development Strategy:
– the ICT Policy, Leadership and Institutional Development
Program
– the ICT Human Resources Development and Industry
Promotion Program
– the Tele-Center Development Program
– the Reengineering Government Program and
– the e-Society Program
– the Regional Telecommunications Network
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Typical Components of an
E-Strategy
• Innovation Support (Cyberparks, R&D Facilities etc.)
• Developing an E-Government Approach and E-Government
Network
• Developing a Cyber – Law Approach (e-Legislation
Programmatic Work)
• Supporting Private Sector Development (Training & Capacity
Building, ICT SMEs, Incubators)
• Infrastructure Development & Policy Reform
• Support for an Independent “ICT” Agency
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Foundations
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Foundations
Foundations
Information Societies
Network Economies
Next Generation Internet Services
Information Infrastructure
Telecom Infrastructure
Figure 1: The Building of Information Societies
Source: BuildingsSource: Building The Regulatory Foundations for Growth in Network Economies
William H. Melody, LIRNE.NET
Economics of Infrastructures, Delft University of Technologies,
The Netherlands
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Twenty Five Blocks of Growth in the “New
Economy”
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Critical Success Factors in Deploying
National E-Strategies
• “Information and Communication technology (ICT)
infrastructure (the “I”) is at the heart of successful
deployment and sustainability of e-government programs”
(Deploying e-government programs: the strategic
importance of “I” before “E”— R. Schware and A. Deane —
World Bank)
• Institutional Clarity:
• Mainstreaming ICT in other sectors and governmental
coordination
• Who’s in the driver seat? The “I” or the “E”?
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Can Telecom Regulators Ignore the “E” ?
• The “I” as Part of the “E”: Institutional Agendas
• The “I” Needs the “E”: Mainstreaming ICTs in Other Sectors
• The “E” as Part of the “I”:
– Technological Trends (NGNs, IP at the Edges of the
Network)
– Emerging Business Models (Infrastructure/Services,
Wholesale/Retail, Re-Sellers/MVNOs/ISPs/Network
Integrators)
– New Tariff Paradigms (Not-Cost-Driven, Costumer-ValueDriven)
– New Regulatory Paradigm?
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A Dynamic Growth Cycle: Investment in Infrastructure and
Innovation
SERVICE
PROVISION
Multiplicity of Competitors
SERVICES
PROVIDERS
REWARDS
STREAM
Need Effective Regulation to
Strike a Balance between:
 Revenue Sharing
Adequate Revenue
Sharing generated by
Growth in Services
 Incentive to Expand the
Network
Infrastructure Roll Out
and Increased Reach
to Customers
=
=
Incentives for Investment
in Infrastructure
Incentives for
Services Providers
Pressures Coming:
INFRASTUCTURE
PROVIDERS
REWARDS
STREAM
 from Conditional Rights to
Infrastructure for Services
Providers
Definition of “Closed user group”
INFRASTRUCTURE
BACKBONE
Oligopolistic Competition
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