INFORMATION AND INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

SECTOR OF MONGOLIASECTOR OF MONGOLIA

Presented by B.BADAMSURENMinistry of Infrastructure, Mongolia

http://www.mid.pmis.gov.mnBangkok, Thailand 2004

II. National ICT Policy and Strategy

III. Mongolian Telecom Sector

IY. IT Sector

Y. Postal Sector

CONTENTS

I. General Information

I. General Information

Location – Landlocked, Northeast Asia, border with China (4,763 km) and Russian Federation (3,441 km).

Area --1.565 million sq.km ( 1.7 person / 1 sq.km)

Capital --Ulaanbaatar (population: 0.8 million)

Population --2.4 million (growth rate 0.8%),

Literacy – 93.4 % per whole inhabitants

Mongolia is rich in mineral resources. Coal, iron, copper, fluorspar, gold, uranium and silver are being mined and exploited.

I. General Information

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The average altitude of the country is l.580 metres above sea level:

90% of Mongolia is pasture, desert and mountains.

l0% of the land is covered by forests.

Mongolia has a sharply continental climate :

In winter -5 and -22 F (-15 and -30 C). Winters are long and dry.

In summer +50 and +80 F (+10 and +30 C).

I. General Information

POLITICAL SYSTEMMongolia is a unitary state.

The highest organ of State power is the STATE GREAT HURAL (PARLIAMENT), it is unicameral and consists of 76 members which is elected by the citizens for a term of four years.

The President is the Head of State. The President has the rights to veto laws and resolutions of the Parliament and renders support to various organisations exercising the legislative, executive and judicial powers in cooperation with each other.

Government is the highest executive body of State. In respect of its composition the Government comprises the Prime Minister and 12 members.

I. General Information

Governmental structure for citizens and IT policy directionGovernmental structure for citizens and IT policy direction

President Parliament

Prime Minister

Ministry of Infrastructure Other Ministries

Cabinet members of Government (12)

Policy and Coordination Department for ICT

National ICT committee

Post and Telecommunication Authority Ed

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Communication Regulatory Committee

CITIZENS, BUSINESSES, OTHER PUBLIC, PRIVATE ENTITIESGovernment Agencies/Operations

ICT Recommendations

ICT Policy implementationICT Policy

Deployment of Information

Communication Infrastructre

ICT Policy

1. CREATE AFFORDABLE POLICY AND

LEGISLATIVE ENVIRENMENT FOR ICT

2. FORMATION OF REALIBLE

INFORAMTION INFRASTRUCTURE

3. HRD AND EMPOWERNMENT

4. PROMOTION OF PRIVATE SECTOR

Policy Framework

II. National ICT Policy and Strategy

1. Communication Law /2001/

2. Postal Law /2003/

Result: Liberalization of Telecom market, created environment for fair competition, establishment of independent regulatory body-CRC, universal obligation fund

Legal Environment

II. National ICT Policy and Strategy

1. Telecom Medium Term Statement

2.ICT Vision 2010

3. Medium Term Strategy for Development ICT and Action Plan

4. Master Plan for Development of Rural Telecommunication Sector up to 2021, 2003,

5. Master Plan for Development of Postal Sector up to 2010,

Policy Statements

II. National ICT Policy and Strategy

III. TELECOM SECTOR

MONGOLIA TRANSMISSION NETWORK

DARKHAN

BULGAN

SAINSHAND

CHOIR

ULAANBAATAR

DORNOGOBI

KHOVSGOL

ARKHANGAI

UVS

BAYAN-OLGII

KHOVD ZAVKHAN

GOBI-ALTAI BAYANKHONGORUVURKHANGAI

O’MNOGOBI

DUNDGOBI

KHENTIITOV

DORNOD

SUKHBAATAR

SELENGE

GOBISUMBER

ÎÐÕÎÍ-ÓÓË

ZAMYN-UUD

Baruun TuruunBaruun Turuun TudevteiTudevtei

TOSONTSENTOSONTSENGELÝËGELÝË

Fibre OpticDigital microwaveAnalog microwave

VSAT

III. TELECOM SECTOR

Mongolian Subscribers Growth

105796

32

57

8 113337

10

28

70

119903

21

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121405

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31

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0

50000

100000

150000

200000

250000

300000

350000

1999 2000 2001 2002 2003

Fixed Mobile

1. ICT DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY

2. INTERNET DEVELOPMENT IN MONGOLIA

3. HRD AND CAPACITY BUILDING

4. IT TRAINING CENTER

5. NATIONAL IT PARK

6. ICT Applications

IY. IT Sector

IY. IT Sector

HIGH SPEED BROADBAND COMMON INFRASTRUCUTRE

e-Govern-ment

e-Lear-ning e-Health e-Ban-

kingAnd other

e-app.s

INTERNET UTILIZATIONINTERNET UTILIZATION

DARKHAN-UUL

BULGAN

SAINSHAND

CHOIR

UALAANBATAR

DORNOGOBI

KHOVSGOL

RAKHANGAI

UVS

BAYAN-OLGII

KHOVD ZAVKHAN

GOBI-ALTAI BAYANKHONGORUVURKHANGAI

OMNOGOBI

DUNDGOBI

KHENTIITOV

DORNOD

SUKHBAATAR

SELENGE

BOBISUMBER

ORKHON-UUL

ZAMIIN-UUD

6200

220000

1997 2003

INTERNET DEVELOPMENT IN MONGOLIAINTERNET DEVELOPMENT IN MONGOLIA

Internet statistics (1994-2003):

1994 1995 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003– Subscr. 500 1200 6000 8000 9000 20000 46000– ISP 1 1 5 6 7 7 8-– Hosts 1 3 15 30 150 400 1000+– Bandwidth - 128K 128K 512/ 1.28M/ 18M 40M 400K 400K 10M 20M

IY. IT Sector

•• SECONDARY SCHOOL SECONDARY SCHOOL -- more than 500 (Basic IT skills)more than 500 (Basic IT skills)

•• ICT Universities and Colleges ICT Universities and Colleges -- 12 (Professional Education)12 (Professional Education)

•• ICT Training center (Certified Training)ICT Training center (Certified Training)

•• IT Park /Incubation and management support to newIT Park /Incubation and management support to newincoming IT companies/incoming IT companies/

• Microsoft Certified Training– Microsoft Certified System Engineers - MCSE

– Microsoft Certified System Administrator - MCSA

– Microsoft Certified Database Administrator - MCDBA

– Microsoft Certified Professional - MCP

• Cisco Certified Training

• JAVA Certified Training (Sun Microsystems)

• Customized IT Training for Organizations

• Videoconferencing services for Educational and

other purpose

NATIONAL IT TRAINING CENTERNATIONAL IT TRAINING CENTER

IY. IT Sector

DISTANCE LEARNING NETWORK /2004/IY. IT Sector

Local Distance Learning Center

IY. IT Sector

NATIONAL NATIONAL IT PARKIT PARKhttp://www.itpark.mn

Objective

• CENTRALIZE NATIONAL IT CAPACITY AND

CREATE FORABLE ENVIRENMENT FOR IT

BUSINESS

• PROMOTION IT OUTSOURSING

• INCUBATION SERVICES FOR NEWLY

ESTABLISHED IT COMPANIES

GOVERNMENT WEBSITES

INTERNET BANK

PRIME MINISTERS LISTENING

E-COMMERCE

PHONE BANKING

SMS BANKINGE-PAYMENT

VASs FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS

ICT ApplicationsICT Applications

3 types of delivering of Postal Services

1. Plane2. Railway3. Car

COUNTRY WIDE POSTAL SERVICECOUNTRY WIDE POSTAL SERVICE

DARKHAN

BULGANULAANBAATAR

DORNOGOBI

KHOVSGOL

ARKHANGAI

UVS

BAYAN-OLGII

KHOVD ZAVKHAN

GOBI-ALTAI BAYANKHONGORUVURKHANGAI

O’MNOGOBI

DUNDGOBI

KHENTIITOV

DORNOD

SUKHBAATAR

SELENGE

GOBISUMBER

ORKHON-UUL

ZAMYN-UUD

IY. Postal Sector

NEW CHALLENGE’S

MONGOLIAN GOVERNMENT POLICY FOR THE BRIDGING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE

Mongolia has been seeking the solution to the digital divide focusing on 5 fields:

• inprove the institutional capacity building of ICT policy and regulation,

• the human resources development,• outsoursing• the ICT infrastructure building in rural area, and• became one of the participant to develop Information

Infrastructure to the “Asia Broadband program”.

BECAME ONE OF THE PARTICIPANT TO DEVELOP INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE TO THE “ ASIA BROADBAND

PROGRAM” BY FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS.

• Promotion of broadband Infrastructure in Mongolia hormanizing regional Infrastructure development.

• Promotion of use of broadband– E-Government– E-learning– E-Health and other IT anabled applications

• Development of local language contents• Promotion of human capicity building