United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and...

GAID Introduction 1

United Nations

Global Alliance for ICT and Development

GAID Introduction 2

Message from Mr Ban Ki-Moon

United Nations Secretary-General

central role to play in the quest for development, dignity

and peace. The international consensus on this point is

clear. We saw it at the 2000 Millennium Summit and at the

2005 World Summit. And we saw it in the two phases of

the World Summit on the Information Society.

With the launch of the Global Alliance for ICT and

Development last March 2006, the international

community has taken that consensus a crucial step further.

The Alliance is well placed to promote the use of ICT in

fighting poverty, illiteracy and disease, in protecting the

environment and empowering women and girls.

It is important that you work as a true partnership of all

essential stakeholders Governments, civil society, the

private sector, academia and others. All of you are needed

GAID Introduction 3

Millennium Summit [Sept 2000]

- Adopted MDGs: poverty; health; education; HIVAIDS; gender; environment; global

partnerships

- ICT as enabler of development

- Attended by 153 world leaders

World Development Summit [Sept 2005]

- Reaffirmed MDGs

- Adopted broad UN Development Agenda with emphasis on ICT4D as a strategic tool

for achieving MDGs

- Attended by 191 world leaders

World Summit on the Information Society [Geneva 2003 & Tunis 2005]- Established broad policy consensus on the principles of Information Society

- Placed the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) at the centre of

open & inclusive vision for Information Society

- Established clear goals for ICT4D e.g. Connecting schools, universities, libraries,

hospitals, etc.

- Call for multi-stakeholder partnership at global, regional, national & local levels

- Attended by 18,000 participants

Foundations of GAID

GAID Introduction 4

An inclusive global forum and

platform for cross-sectoral policy dialogue

and advocacy promoting the use of ICT

for the achievement of the internationally

agreed development goals

The Mission of GAID

GAID Introduction 5

GAID seeks to contribute to:

Mainstreaming the global ICT agenda into the broader United

Nations development agenda

Bringing together key organizations involved in ICT for

development (ICT4D) to enhance their collaboration and

effectiveness for achieving the internationally agreed development

goals

Raising awareness of policy makers on ICT4D policy issues

Facilitating identification of technological solutions for specific

development goals and launching of pertinent partnerships

Promoting creation of an enabling environment and innovative

business models for pro-poor investment and growth and for

empowering people living in poverty

Providing the Secretary-General with advice on ICT4D related

issues

GAID Introduction 6

We offer…

• Access to distinguished network of common-interest parties

• Cross-sectoral policy and partnership dialogue

• Solution partnering possibilities on different levels

• Assistance in funding mobilization and other support thru partnership

………and more

GAID Introduction 7

Our Partners Are …….

- Governments / Member States

- Enterprises / Corporations

- Civil Society

- Academia

- Non-Governmental Organizations

- Community-Based Organizations

- ICT4D Practitioners

- Policy, Technology & Innovation Drivers

- UN System Organizations

GAID Introduction

GAID’s Structure

Steering Committee

Roles:

Provides executive

direction & priority

setting

Reviews business plan

and periodic progress

reports

Members:

20 members representing

main stakeholder groups

Mr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

(Chairman)

Mr. Kamram Elahian &

Mr. Ramón A. Garza (Co-

Chairs)

Strategy Council

Roles:

Development of action

oriented policy platform

Awareness raising &

advocacy campaigns

Members:

74 members composed of

government, civil society,

and international

organization representatives

High Level Advisors

Roles:

Contribute to research

& development

Help advance relevant

theories on ICT4D

Champions Network

Roles:

Experts, activists &

practitioners

-

of information through

experience in ICT use

Regional Networks

Role:

Open & inclusive to

reflect the regional

perspective & specific

needs

Thematic Networks

Flagship Partnership

Initiatives

Communities of

Expertise

Partnerships for

Advocacy

* GAID’s patron-in-chief is the UN SG

* GAID reports thru the SG to the ECOSOC

GAID Introduction 9

Thematic Areas

The Inaugural meeting of the Alliance in Kuala Lumpur in June 2006

agreed that the Alliance will initially focus on the use of ICT in

promoting the following four broad areas:

1. Education

2. Health

3. Entrepreneurship

4. Governance

Activity within these areas will take place predominantly via Flagship

Partnership Initiatives, Communities of Expertise, Stakeholder

Networks, and Regional Networks

GAID Introduction 10

Telecentre.org

– Increasing local capacity and providing access to e-learning, training and skills

development, local content generation, e-government and other relevant services to

the local community

Cyber Development Corp

– Promoting the establishment of a global outreach programme based on the spirit of

volunteerism to help lesser-developed nations and communities benefit from global

information and communication technologies, infrastructure and resources

Connect the World

– Supporting efforts to consolidate and scale-up existing development activities and

stimulate new partnerships with an aim to accelerate and strengthen efforts to bridge

the digital divide

Flagship Partnership Initiatives

FPIs aim is to leverage joint resources and to spur visible action across the

four GAID focus areas to produce concrete and measurable deliverables.

The seven established so far are:


FPIs continued:

Global Initiative for Inclusive Information & Communications

Technologies (G3ICT)

– Advocating ICT solutions for people with disabilities and accelerating the

development of affordable solutions worldwide

Open-Training Platform

– Using ICT to better serve local people through free training courses of knowledge

and skills needed for improving living conditions and poverty reduction

e-Content and Creativity

– Selecting and promoting rich local contents and innovative applications to narrow

the global content gap, emphasizing the importance of good quality contents and

innovative applications to achieve core development goals

United Nations Global Knowledge Repository for Electronic/Mobile

Government (EMGKR)

– Researching concepts, approaches, including challenges and barriers to

electronic/mobile governments


CoEs are thematic groups established by a mandate from the

Steering Committee to carry out a well-defined, specific task or

tasks, within one or more focus areas of the Alliance.

Fifteen of these communities have been established from the four

GAID thematic areas and in the cross-cutting areas of gender,

youth, content, rural development, and access and connectivity.

Communities of Expertise

(1) E-governance for Development

(2) E-services for development

(3) Information & Communication Technologies for Peace

(4) ICT competencies for teachers

(5) Enhancing access to & application of scientific data in developing countries

(6) ICT for education

(7) ICT integration and pedagogical engineering

(8) ICT for country health strategies

(9) E-agriculture

(10) Gender, development and information society policies

(11) International Taskforce on Women & ICT

(12) Youth social technopreneurship

(13) e-Content and Creativity -- World Summit Award and Network

(14)

(15) Wire for Development (W4D)


Stakeholder Networks

Stakeholder networks build on

existing groups and generate

new synergies among

constituents with shared

interests. The Alliance will reach

out to maximize participation by

all interested entities, extend the

outreach of the GAID and

promote channels for smooth

communications and

collaboration.

Following are the stakeholder

networks formed under the

umbrella of the Global Alliance:

Civil society CONGO

Youth ATHGO International, Taking IT Global,

Paradigm Initiative Nigeria, Suzanne

Mubarak Women’s International Peace

Movement

Gender IT for Change, Centre for Women and

Information Technology, Centre for

Feminist Research and Action

Persons with

disabilities

W2i, Secretariat for the Convention on

the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

(Division for Social Policy and

Development, UN/DESA), IBM

Parliamentarians International Parliamentarians

Association for IT (supported by the

Global Centre for ICT in Parliament,

Rome)

Local government and

regional authoritiesIT 4 All (Bilbao)

Constituency Lead Organization(s)


Regional Networks

The Regional Networks will ensure the open, inclusive, participatory and truly global character of the Alliance, and the adequate reflection

of regional perspectives and specific needs in the activities of GAID in the four focus areas.

The following have been launched:

- Transitional Countries (2 Oct. 2006, Baku)

- Asia Pacific (19 Oct. 2006, Shanghai)

- Europe (16 Jan. 2007, Dresden)

- Africa (23 Mar. 2007, Addis Ababa)

- Latin America & the Caribbean (Feb. 2008, San Salvador)

- Arab States (Jun. 2009, Damascus)


• The Regional Arab Network will be the Arabic focal point for GAID

• This launch provides an opportunity for prominent panelists to share cutting-edge

ideas, innovative knowledge, experiences, expertise and best practices in order to

maximize the effectiveness of initiatives to meet the objectives referred to in the

Millennium Declaration

• A Steering Group for the Regional Arab Network will coordinate all relevant

activities and to encourage mutually beneficial communication between all

stakeholders

• Areas of focus: poverty reduction and education

Hessa Sultan Al-Jaber, Secretary-General, Supreme Council of ICT

Abdulrahman A. Mazi, Managing Director, National Information Systems Co.

Ahmed El-Sherbini, Deputy Minister for International Affairs, Ministry of Communication & Information Technology

Farouk Kamoun, Director of Research Laboratory, National Institute for Informatics

Mohamed Bachir Al Mounajed, Chairman, Softcad Company

Nasser Khalaf, Director-General, National Information Technology Center

Ali Shraydeh, Director-General, Central Agency for Information Technology

Yousef Nusseir, Chief, Information and Communication Technology Division

GAID in

the Arab Region

Steering Group Members:


Outreach Activities

GAID pursues a three-pronged awareness-raising

and outreach programme to:

1. Influence policy at international, regional, national and local

levels, promoting an enabling environment for the effective use

of ICT to stimulate or accelerate economic and social

development

2. Strengthen capacity of policy- and decision-makers to formulate

effective and sustainable ICTD policy

3. Build brand recognition among all relevant stakeholder groups;

promote awareness of its mission, objectives and role in the

follow-up to WSIS; and attract contribution and participation.


Progress

•Connect Africa initiative in

Rwanda where stakeholders

invested more than $55 million

•GAID Global Forum on Youth

and ICT for Development in

Geneva

• “UN Meets Silicon Valley”

•First FPIs

Regional Networks for

transitional countries, Asia

Pacific, Europe, and Africa

Two books: The Foundations of

the Global Alliance for ICT &

Development and Our Common

Humanity in the Information Age

11th session of the Commission on

Science and Technology for Development

(CSTD), “Panel discussion on ICT for

development — Programmes and

Strategies in the Developing World”, on 28

May 2008 in Geneva

First ever United Nations Private Sector

Forum in New York

GAID Regional Network for Latin America

& the Caribbean

• Global Forum for Innovation and

Education for Development in Yerevan,

Armenia, gathering over 300 young people

who designed cutting-edge ICT solutions

• “United Nations Meets Web 2.0 — New

Media, New Entrepreneurs and New ICT

Opportunities in Emerging Markets” event

in Silicon Valley

• Launch of redesigned website and online

social network

• In March, UN Headquarters in

New York announced launch of

“Center for Women and

Technology in Arab Region”,

aiming to empower women and

girls to take leadership roles as

full-fledge entrepreneurs and

innovators in the ICT sector

• CSTD Panel on Mobile

Technology in Global Public

Health, 26 May 2009

• New membership in Steering

Committee and Strategy

Council

• In June, Regional Network for

Arab States

2007 2008 2009


Future Endeavors

ECOSOC Ministerial Roundtable Breakfast, Digital Health &

Development in Africa: Role of Public and Private Partnerships, 7 July

2009

Special event on Africa and least developed countries - Topic:

Partnership & Health, 8 July 2009

Global Forum of Local and Regional Authorities, October 2009

GAID Global Forum: ICT and Innovation for Education, Monterrey,

Mexico, September 2009

9th CIVICUS World Assembly, Montreal 2010


• Poverty Eradication and Financial Crisis Agenda

• Climate Change

• Gender Equality

• Health & Education

• Governance

Future Endeavors

New Areas of Focus


GAID Websitehttp://www.un-gaid.org


Social network: http://un-gaid.ning.com


GAID is a network of networks open to all interested stakeholders.

The global challenges of poverty, illiteracy, disease, and environment can be

met if we all join hands in a common struggle.

The world has to achieve clear targets to improve human wellbeing by 2015.

The challenge is great, but the opportunity is even greater.

We can do this together.


For further information please contact

Secretariat of The Global Alliance for ICT and Development

One UN Plaza

Room DC1-1464

New York, NY 10017

Tel: +1.212.963.5796

Fax: +1.917.367.4340

Web: www.un-gaid.org

Email: [email protected]

United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and...

Documents

Transcript of United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and...