LANDSCAPE, NOT ARCHITECTURE Maximising ICT in development Dan McGarry, CTO PiPP

Dan McGarry, CTO PiPP

LANDSCAPE, NOT ARCHITECTURE

Maximising ICT in development


What’s it all about?

• Technology, fundamentally, is a means, not an end in itself

• Technologists, therefore, need to think more like engineers than architects

• Architects work within their environment• Engineers adjust their environment…• … making life easier for architects


ICT Policy Efforts in Vanuatu

• National ICT policy– ICT for everyone– Emphasis on education (reflects capabilities as

well as interest)– WSIS definition of multi-stakeholderism– ‘Policy as a process’– ‘Pragmatic’, ‘private’, based on best practices



• Cybersecurity Policy– Develop organisational structures (i.e. Vanuatu

CERT or equivalent)– Define mandatory technical standards– Build legislative/regulatory framework– Improve awareness, understanding– Improve international cooperation



• Universal Access Policy– By 1 January 2017 98 percent of the Vanuatu

population shall have (and continue having after this date) access to:• Voice• Narrowband• Broadband (42/23 Mbps)

– Minimum quality standards


Building an environment


From the bottom up…

• Seeding network effects• ‘Get your eyes on the prize’• Help people see what’s NOT there


Build outward, not upward

• ‘Shared understanding’, especially around the edges• Emphasis on informal, explicit, specific learning• Applies to ‘experts’ almost more than others


School (as in fish)

• ‘Understanding’ in detail• Emphasis (again) on informal, explicit, specific learning• Includes ‘soft’ (i.e. informal) as well as technical education


Little Red Hens

• Statements of principle are great, but useless alone• Commitment is the application of money, means and will• Commitment happens at all levels


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LANDSCAPE, NOT ARCHITECTURE Maximising ICT in development Dan McGarry, CTO PiPP