IDRC’s ICT4D Mission Public corporation created by the Parliament of Canada in 1975 to help researchers and communities in the developing world find solutions to their social, economic & environmental problems Public corporation created by the Parliament of Canada in 1975 to help researchers and communities in the developing world find solutions to their social, economic & environmental problems Program Initiatives Information Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) - Pan Asia Networking (PAN) - Pan Asia Networking (PAN) Social & Economic Equity Natural Resource Management Natural Resource Management

PAN Strategic Objectives  To pilot demonstration, proof-of-concept, experimental and applied research ICT projects in disadvantaged communities within target countries in Asia  To strengthen research and development capacity to apply ICTs in education, health, and employment at the community level  To encourage governments in their ICT policy formulation and related research to give priority to enabling the spread of ICTs to remote communities

PAN Strategic Objectives Of Note to APNG ….  To encourage the advanced-technology countries in Asia to engage in capacity-building and in the coaching of slower adopting countries, through the promotion of research collaboration and networking  To network digital pioneers in the region and foster broad research partnerships for sharing and learning from each other and for articulating regional concerns at international fora

Strategic Approaches Create/seize opportunities for concerted, collaborative ICT work that: (1)interests other donor ICT investors in the region to collaborate (2) facilitates regional ICT groups to be involved in ICT work in developing countries

Strategic Partners Partnerships in ICT programmes/projects International Foundation for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme (APDIP) Asia-Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC) Rockefeller Foundation ASEAN Foundation Asian Development Bank

Strategic Modalities ICT RnD Small Grants Competition –Asia Pacific The Digital Review of Asia Pacific The Asia ICT4D Collaboratory - REST PanAsiaNetworking All-Partners Consortium Conference, Vientiane, 24 Feb – 01 Mar 2003 Internet governance Local Fonts, Unicode; Open Source Software

Partnerships with APNG APNG Group’s partnership with PAN: iDNS – MINC Consortium supported by PAN ICT RnD Grants Programme - focusing researchers on ICT innovation - APDIP joins IDRC’s PAN in funding the Jan 2002 competition - APNIC joins IDRC’s PAN in funding the Sept 2002 competition - Regional Committee Members: Li Xing (China); Salman Ansari (Pakistan); Esther Williams (Fiji)

Involving APNG The Digital Review of Asia Pacific reports on state-of-practice of ICTs and innovations for socio-econ development in the region. Panel of Authors (Initial List): BangladeshSamudra E.HaqueNepal Basantha Shrestha BruneiMahmud Mohd DaudNew Zealand David Anthony BhutanGopi Pradhan PakistanAltamash Kamal ChinaLi Xing CambodiaNorbert KleinPapua New GuineaPeter Mamfu HongKongPindar Wong PhilippinesBoying Lallana IndiaMadanmohan RaoSingaporeGoh Seow Hiong IndonesiaOnno Purbo South KoreaS.H. Kyong IranMasoud Chitsaz South Pacific Robert Guild JapanIzumi Aizu Sri Lanka Nakala Guwardene LaosPhonpasit PhissamayTaiwan Ching-Yi Liu MaldivesMidhath Hilmy Thailand Hugh Thaweesak Koanantakool MalaysiaZaharom NainTibetYang Yong MongoliaBaljin Narantsetseg Vietnam Nguyen Trung Quynh

How can PAN add value to APNG ? PAN works with least developing country partners in Asia by supporting their ICT field applications projects - telecenters, development oriented ISP activities, distance education technologies, e-commerce, innovative web applications, telemedicine, GIS, fonts, OSS issues … women in ICTs …… PAN wants its least developing country partners to network with APNG

An Invitation to APNG to contribute to the PAN All Partners Vientiane, 2003 by:  Integrating a plenary and/or training programme on Internet governance issues  thinking about the prospect of a future PAN-All Partners Conference combined with APNG Conference that could equate to a regular Asian ICT Conference, with majority Asian participation, an Asia agenda that is also meaningful to Asia’s least developing countries, and attended by them as well

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