S.Enkhjargal, MIDAS/MONITA NGO

MEGA Mongolia ICT4Development - Enkhjargal ICT4Education - Enkhjargal ICT4Health - Batpurev ICT4Business – Batpurev- Tourism- Construction ICT4Agriculture - Ariunaa ICT4Governance - Ariunaa

ICT4D Study tours Philippines Canada National seminar Project proposal review

National Seminar Agenda Participants Presentations in brief Conclusions

Agenda 9:00 Registration 9:30 Opening – ICTA Sansar /moderator S.Enkhjargal/ 9:40 IDRC –гийн Holistic Programming Mongolia project introduction – B.Batpurev, Team leader, General Director, ITCS Part 1. Foreign experiences 9:50 Korean ICT development experiences – Dr. Lee Y.T., ASOCIO ambassador, FKII 10:10 Singaporean IT outsourcing experiences and its tendency – Bill Liu, ASOCIO ambassador, SiTF 10:40 Q&A 11:00 Tea break Part 1.2 Moderator L.Ariunaa 11:15 Experiences of Phiippines in using ICT for development and learning from it – B.Batpurev 11:30 ICT development experiences and lessons learned from Canada – S.Enkhjargal Part 2. Current status and tendency of Mongolian ICT development – moderatorB.Batpurev 11:45 Current status of ICT development – ICTA Amgalanbat 12:00 Issues of ICT regulations – CRC - U.Tamir - Ninjbolor 12:15 ICT current issues – L.Ariunaa 12:30 Discussion /moderator L.Ariunaa/ 13:00 Closing and conclusion /moderator S.Enkhjargal/ 13:00 Lunch

Participants ICTA CRC Private companies NGOs ASOCIO ambassadors IT Park Universities Total 49 participants Venue: Open society institute conference hall

Presentations Dr. Lee Pushing or lobbying government Specifics going to Japanese market Bill Liu Outsourcing stages Key incriedents for successful outsourcing Outsourcing vs. Best sourcing Batpurev Good relations with western countries Government supports the ICT development Mobile penetration

Canada The Philippine Advantage § Available Quality Human Resources § Superior Infrastructure Support § Strategic Location § Cultural Affinity With the West § Quality of Life for Expats § Government Support The Philippine Advantage § Available Quality Human Resources § Superior Infrastructure Support § Strategic Location § Cultural Affinity With the West § Quality of Life for Expats § Government Support HR is good – Well developed relationship between higher education institutions and industry Well developed infrastructure Government support for infrastructure Flexible policy to attract foreign investment Pay more attention to research and development

Presentations Amgalanbat (ICTA) Legal environment Policy and regulation Infrastructure Implementing projects and initiatives Issues Change backbone from Circuit Switch to Packet Switch technology To do telecom traffic survey and introduce flexible traffic management To do analysis in internal Internet flow and design proper and sound network architecture Introduce new services using the fiber optic lines, which are reaching to soum level Approve and implement E-government master plan Renew and adapt rural telecommunication master plan into current cituation Solve infrastructure problems for unified registration system

Presentations CRC – Oyungerel, Ninjbolor, Tamir 1. Licensing - ISP - Registration /internet center/ 2. Radio frequency licensing and management - planning and regulation - monitoring system 3. Interconnection 4. Develop standards 5. Research – Optimize policy – IT standards research

Presentation Ariunaa Legal, policy level Infrastructure level Software Hardware HR Access Content R&D R&D institute Indicators- No. Internet user? Online products and services

Problems: ICT policy is politically dependent There is no unified indicators to measure ICT development There is no IT standards There is no evaluation of E-Mongolia National Program implementation E-Government master plan is not implemented, because it’s not understandable for stakeholders There is a lack of IT human resource policy There are overlappings of ICT projects and initiatives ICT 4 D

Is ICT developing in Mongolia? Research questions: Can current structure of regulatory body for ICT effectively lead the development of ICT sector? Is ICT development in Mongolia growing or descending? Has ICT development in Mongolia impacted to the social and economic development of the country for last 5 years? How accessible information to public? What was achieved through E-Mongolia National program approval?

Thank you S.Enkhjargal MIDAS/MONITA NGO