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New Economy Skills for Africa Program Information and Communication Technology
(NESAP-ICT) A Joint AFTHD/ GICT/ AFTFP
ProgramJee-Peng Tan,
Education Adviser, Africa Region, World Bank South-South Learning Visit to India
February 8,2009
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Overview
Why NESAP-ICT? Objectives of NESAP-ICT Key Focus Areas and Strategy Implementation Status Funding Sources Deliverables South-South Learning
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Scarcity of ICT skills in Africa amid rapidly growing telecom and services sectors Reduces potential returns on ICT investments Disincentive for new investors
Increasing demand but poor performing ICT components in Bank education projects. Africa Region has highest ICT components
Emerging opportunity for employment creation through IT enabled services ($475bn market in 2007, 15% tapped)
Why NESAP-ICT?
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Objective of NESAP-ICT
Support the specific ICT educational and skills
needs of targeted African countries
Build capacity to better design, implement and
ICT projects/components
Pilot a new way of working collaboratively
across sectors to address a common need
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Key Focus Areas
Skills Development to support ICT investments and for IT/ITES industry
Capacity building for Integration of ICTs into for Integration of ICTs into education and trainingeducation and training (teacher training programs, (teacher training programs, vocational training, integration of ICTs into curricula)vocational training, integration of ICTs into curricula)
Use of ICT as an enabler to improve performance, governance and management, governance and management of of the education system e.g.the education system e.g. EMIS, NRENs EMIS, NRENs
Provision of ICT equipment and bandwidth will be integrated into the above as necessary.
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Strategy
Mainstreaming into Country Development
Strategy
Fostering cross-sectoral collaboration
Partnering with Private sector
Leveraging South-South Learning
Strong Government commitment and
institutional leadership
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NESAP-ICT Implementation Status 8 participating countries: Ghana, Kenya,
Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania
Endorsed by Country “Champions” Scoping missions: Mozambique, Nigeria
and Kenya. Needs Assesment in Progress South-South Learning (GDLN, India Visit)
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Deliverables by June 2009
Draft Implementation Action Plans for all countries by end of SSLV
Follow-Up Workshop (end May, 2009) ICT Skills Needs Assessment completed in at
east 3 countries Baseline Study on the Status of the IT/ITES
industry in Africa. Publication in FY10
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South-South Learning Visit (Feb. 8-21) Objectives
Facilitate knowledge sharing (Africa-Africa-India) Provide exposure to the “how to” of ICT skills
development and the IT/ITES industry Networking (Africa-Africa-India)
Expected Outcomes Country action plans for ICT skills development Collaborative linkages to implement the plans Continued Peer-Peer learning
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Participants Up to 5 people per country from:
Education and Training Institutions involved in ICT skills development
BPO Practitioners and entrepreneurs from the private sector
ICT Regulatory Bodies Senior Government officials from the ministry
responsible for ICT development Senior IT/ITES experts from Korea,
Philippines World Bank: TTLs, Managers, NESAP-ICT
Team
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Design and Activities
Duration – February 8 - 21 (two weeks) Host: NASSCOM Locations –Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bangalore Pre and Post Visit GDLN Events Week 1
2-day Workshop: Country Presentations on preliminary action plans Presentations of India, Philippines and Korea experiences
Participation in NASSCOM Annual Leadership Forum Week 2
Field Visits to selected enterprises & institutions Working session by country teams to develop action plans
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ICT in IBRD/IDA Portfolio
No. of Projects
identified with ICT
ICT Commitment Amt.US$M
Total 1,039 7,736
Portfolio 930 6,198
Pipeline2 19 467
Other3 90 1,071
1: Refers to the total number of projects reviewed (1630) as part of the ICT dimension study – as of Nov 20062: Only includes pipeline projects with clear ICT components identified3: ‘Other’ includes projects other than investment lending (incl. GPP, IDF, GEF, Special funds etc)
• 64% of Bank projects1 (pipeline and portfolio) have ICT components• Total ICT investments estimated at about $7.73 billion (‘94-’06)
Bank ICT investments in Education are also growing
In AFR, education sector has largest number of operations with ICTs, with commitments averaging $168 million a year; evaluation indicates performance is poor
Africa: ICT Investment by Sector
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Sector Board
No. o
f ICT
pro
jects
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ICT
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t $M
No. of Projects 28 26 24 24 22 21 17 11 11 5
ICT Investment $m 168 79 123 65 118 85 234 27 26 286
Education
Health, Nutritio
Rural Sector
Energy and
Private Sector
Transport
Public Sector
Water Supply
Financial
Global ICT
Technology Component as a Percentage of Bank's Education Committments
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5
10
15
20
25
2001 2002 2003 2004
Perc
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ge
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ICT components in education projects have consistently risen in the 2001-2004 period
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Impact of the SectorICT’s contribution to economic growth ...and on investments
35% of total FDI in SSA was from telecom
Source: World Bank WDI (2007)
Telecom FDI versus Total FDI in SSA (2000-2004)
Other FDI, $36 billion
Telecom FDI, $20 billion
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Telecommunication service revenues as a percentage of GDP, 1998 - 2004
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~475
~65
~130
Estimated Addressablemarket
Penetratedmarket 2007
Estimated penetrated market 2010
~ 27%~ 14%
~200
~27~55
Estimated Addressablemarket
Penetratedmarket 2007
Estimated penetrated market 2010
~28%~14%
~125
~20~30
Estimated Addressablemarket
Penetratedmarket 2007
Estimated penetrated market 2010
~24%~16%
~150
~18~45
Estimated Addressablemarket
Penetratedmarket 2007
Estimated penetrated market 2010
~30%~12%
Global IT/ITES market
IT services Engineering services IT enabled services
+40%
+15%+35%+25%
Source: McKinsey & Co. various estimates.
Percentage of addressable market
CAGR between 2007 and 2010
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Canada 29%
India54%
Philippines1%
Ireland8%
Central and Eastern Europe
3%
China3%
Others2%
Source: Tholons 2006
Canada 27%
India37%
Philippines15%
Ireland5%
Mexico5%
Central and Eastern Europe
4%
China2%
Others5%
ITES marketIT services market
Source: NASSCOM-Everest 2008