DigitalElderssome ICT4D trends

Pete Cranston

1. Four current sourcesa. ICT4Ag Kigali 2013 conference

b. INTRAC M&E workshop 2013, ICT track A & track B

c. eCampaigning Forum mailing list Dec 13 - Feb 14

d. #ICT4d

2. A personal filter - to start a conversation a. ‘our future is mobile’, M Zuckerberg (et al)

b. open & crowd

3. Options for HAI & DigitalElders

Agenda

ICT4Ag 2014 - staggering range1. Startling innovation

o e.g. WeFarm, satellite imaging for water management at plot level; ruggedised server broadcasting educational content in rural areas, balloon-mounted adapted near-infrared camera

2. Digital invention outside OECDo eg Multi-media Farming Instructor

3. Scale and integration - third generationo e.g. m4agriNEI, mFarm, Esoko, farmerconnect

4. Evolution of good practice in Developmento e.g. Grameen Community Knowledge Worker (CKW)

& local content & fake ag input products & m-financeo agTube, digitalgreen

ICT4Ag 2014 (cont)1. Lessons of essential good practice in ICT4D

have been learnt, but not always:o User centred development (vs tech opportunism)o Appropriate technical supporto Consider finance & business models from first ideas o Integrate issues of gender equity

2. Trust is a constant theme in development, but ICT4D brings in different perspectives o trusting data, channels, people online rather than f2f,

mobile money and its agents

3. Mobile Financeo ‘m-finance is to the bottom of the pyramid as the

banking sector was to the industrial revolution’o eg mPesa, VirtualBank; YellowPepper (LAC)

A maturing field, integrated organisationally, with a standard set of tools & fewer ‘shiny toys’

• Online social networkso territorial variation is important eg MxITo issues with FaceBook, LinkedIn - range vs

commercial, fast-moving organisations

• Mass mailo myriad examples

• Multi-media campaigningo videos (including PV) eg VAW, infographics, photo-

visuals, animations eg KingsFund integrated care

• e-campaigning support toolso change.org vs 38degrees & controlshiftlabs.org

eCampaigning

Mobile Digital Devices• Reach, growth, convergence and new-tech st

ill acceleratingo Information Ecosystem of Southern Policy Actors

• WhatsApp etc - cheap text + few functions

• Integration - still most powerful strategyo eg Radio, SMS, Interactive Voice Response (IVR),

TV, staffed helplines eg Trac FM, infosaid, o Organisational management & efficiency eg

GOAL Ireland in Syriao Integrated services eg mapping & weather & farms,

or market matching (mobile, radio web)

• Targetted m-apps o eg i-cow

Open & Crowd….

• Data - Open Data Research Network o large scale data collection - for M&E, for dialogue

(eg perceptions of services), community group management, advocacy (NB Avaaz vs bottom-up)

• Sourcing ideas for a project - IDEO

• Views on a project - MAVC

• Mapping o eg PPGIS, geolive

• Solutions - o e.g weFarm based on affinity groups and natural

wish to help those in similar situations

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Options for HAI & DigitalElders

• Mainstreaming ICT4D within HAI ?o Staff competency standards & capacity needso A core enabler rather than a strategic priority?

• Digital Literacy or Digital Rights?o capacity development with and through youth, HAI,

HAI partners?

• Partner o with specialist innovators (as in MAVC) or

programmes (eg Open Data Research) o thematic development leaders using ICT4D eg

UNICEF or Oxfam or Gates

• Explore Business Models