1. Senior Advisor for Arab States - ITU
Development of the IP-based Infrastructure & Services Ecosystem (2/2) : Scenarios & Roadmap for Planning
Regional Workshop on
ICT Indicators: from Policy & Strategy to Impact and Vice versa
  Sharm ElSheik, Egypt, 8-9 June 2012
Dr. Ahmed ElHefnawy
Senior Advisor for Arab States - ITU

2. Excellent Presentations. Can We Work on our Future not our Past?
SO WHAT ?
Excellent Presentations.
Can We Work on our Future not our Past?
Quick Assessment >> Road ahead..

3. Strategic Planning Options (Case of IP/BB)
No Explicit Plans (Mostly)
Partial Plans (Some)
Scope
Methodology (with Objectives, KPIs, Goals & Targets leading to Initiatives)
Complete National Plans (Very Few)
Regional Plans (Limited and needs updated)

4. Reasons behind this limitation
Few have a dedicated strategic planning team.
Regional Diversity is quite clear in Market, Policy &Technology.
Regional Cooperation is Limited. (GCC is an exception).

5. What we concluded from benchmarking yesterday?
Components Need Attention:
IXP
Content
Sites Registration
Fiber/Wifi/xDSL
Support (e-Payment, search engines).

6. Our Strongest Asset
Same Language of Over 300 Million People (A very rare situation, need to be utilized)

7. ICT Industry Main Players
Operators
Infrastructure
ISP
Content
International
Few
Most
Regional
National (Gov)
Rare
National (Private)
Some
The Market is fragmented especially at the regional level. Limited policy coordination. No private company is located Pan Arab. This is detrimental especially in the content , where the language and culture is common and can make a big difference. Note the satellite channels. Most of the revenues goes to international companies from domain name registration to hosting to advertisements to transactions.

8. Develop our national capabilities.
What we may do?
Do nothing differently? Continue what we are doing more or less. Stagnation>>Tsunami is coming. Advise: Ride the wave.
Develop our national capabilities.
Look at our assets and get a regional integration.

9. Proposed Ecosystem Conceptual Model
Devices
(HW & SW Suppliers)
Content
(Users/
Producers)
Register Sites
Transmit
Receive
Connect
Users
Connectivity
(ISPs, Cables, IXPs,
Spectrum, Exchanges
Sub.
Sites
(Registrars)
Users/ Producers
Hosts
Data Centers
(Hosting)
Producers

10. 350 + Millions Speak the same Language.
What we really have
350 + Millions Speak the same Language.
So issue of Content is more feasible.
A market of about 3 Trillion USD.
Common Sectors:
Culture / Entertainment / Education
Health / Tourism

11. Do we move in weeks/months/years/decades/centuries?
Main Steps to catch up….
Do we move in weeks/months/years/decades/centuries?
Implementations
Discussions
Propositions

12. شكرا لحسن إستماعكم

13. د. أحمد الحفناوى ahmed.elhefawy@itu.int

14. Q & A