1. gate ICTP, Trieste, October 23-24, 2003 GATE/GTZ initiatives for Adaptation, Dissemination and a sustainable use of Information Technologies presented by: Carolin Bothe, GATE – Information Manager carolin.bothe@gtz.de

2. gate ICTP, Trieste, October 23-24, 2003 outline Introduction Activity examples (e)-learning networking telecenters ICTs & economy cd-roms, radio and paper PPP – Public Private Partnership World Summit on the Information Society Summary

3. gate carolin.bothe@gtz.de ICTP, Trieste, October 23-24, 2003 GTZ is... the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (German Agency for Technical Cooperation) an international active state owned company working for the German government but also for other public and private, national and international costumers contributing to the political, economical, ecological and social development worldwide supporting more than 2700 projects and programmes in about 130 partner countries

4. gate carolin.bothe@gtz.de ICTP, Trieste, October 23-24, 2003 NGO-Network in Westafrica (SIATA) Regional Information Service Centre for Southeast Asia on Appropriate Technology (RISE-AT) Information system for Rural Development in Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru NGO-Regional Co-operation Small-Scale Project Fund (SSPF) Environmental Grants.. is an umbrella programme Co-ordination Service for Appropriate Building Technologies (BASIN) BASIN-newsletter BASIN-database co-publication of “Appropriate Technology” GATE- internal library Information service (ID) Question & Answer service International Network on Technical Information (INTI) Information- & Communication Technology

5. gate carolin.bothe@gtz.de ICTP, Trieste, October 23-24, 2003 objectives are...... to contribute to the poverty alleviation in developing countries by strengthening self help initiatives of the poor to apply innovative appropriate technologies... to improving the technological competence and information access of organisations and individuals working in or with self help groups... to promote the use of socially sound and climate & environment friendly technologies

6. gate carolin.bothe@gtz.de ICTP, Trieste, October 23-24, 2003 (e)-learning “GTZ’s mission is to support education and training at primary, secondary, and tertiary levels by providing appropriate technologies enabling a learning- friendly environment in the respective context of developing countries.” ICTEducation interactive

7. gate carolin.bothe@gtz.de ICTP, Trieste, October 23-24, 2003 (e)-learning - kabissa – time to go online

8. gate carolin.bothe@gtz.de ICTP, Trieste, October 23-24, 2003 (e)-learning - CRYSTAL

9. gate carolin.bothe@gtz.de ICTP, Trieste, October 23-24, 2003 networking INTI – International Network on Technical Information IKON – SHARED Regional Information Systems Ecuarural InfoAgro SIRA / SADA CIPCA

10. gate carolin.bothe@gtz.de ICTP, Trieste, October 23-24, 2003 cd-roms, radio & paper - Radio Marañón Processing and distribution of local knowledge via radio, Internet, boletines and extensionistas Documentation Center (“Brain of the Region”), Information on the activities of all actors, Content-Provider Ellaboration of a standards for Consultancy-Services Training in the Cabinas Publicas with content from the own website or products of others (ITACAB, CIAT, GTZ etc.) Partnership with FITEL in order to reach a higher level of connectivity in the region and to establish more Cabinas in the rural areas Comité Interinstitucional (Radio Marañón, GTZ, KfW, NGOs, Staat etc.) Grupos de Enseñanza y Aprendizaje Network of local organisations Institutional regional Network Red M@rañón

11. gate carolin.bothe@gtz.de ICTP, Trieste, October 23-24, 2003 cd-roms, radio & paper - Human Info NGO The objective of the “Humanitarian Information for All” is to provide all persons involved in development, well-being and basic needs, access to a complete library containing most solutions, know-how and ideas they need to tackle poverty and increase the human potential.

12. gate carolin.bothe@gtz.de ICTP, Trieste, October 23-24, 2003 Telecenter Project - objective GTZ and partner-organisations develop a training-concept for telecenter start-ups and implement it together with international donor-organisations.

13. gate carolin.bothe@gtz.de ICTP, Trieste, October 23-24, 2003 Telecenter Project - state of the art Casestudies in Peru, Chile, Ecuador and Nicaragua were carried out First Telecenter-Initiatives took off Regional stakeholder workshop in Ecuador with the goal to support Telecenter business models Networking at an international conference on ICT and telecenter in Ecuador

14. gate carolin.bothe@gtz.de ICTP, Trieste, October 23-24, 2003 Telecenter Project - developments Support of 4 country initiatives via distance-coaching Development of a training concept for telecenter start-up on base of the Ecuador workshop In Cooperation with „Social Venture Partners“ a proposal for financial support will be written up Donors like the Worldbank, UNESCO, USAID an others will be contacted for further support

15. gate carolin.bothe@gtz.de ICTP, Trieste, October 23-24, 2003 e-governance detailed country-studies to evaluate the ICT-situation (e-readiness) and to assess the intervention levels ICT in the local / regional private sector development and promotion / technology centers Meta eLocal Government (Met@logo) Improved communication & cooperation amongst municipalities and SMEs in LA through the allocation of tools for the design and maintenance of e- government-portals Pólo Tecnológico Santa Rita do Sapucai, Brasil (Electronics / Communication) funding (german-brasil cooperation ) since 1995 107 enterprises – 3.000 products - 5.600 jobs – 360 Mio. Reais/year consulting – productdevelopment - training - joint ventures Macro-level ICTs & economy – GTZ areas of intervention I

16. gate carolin.bothe@gtz.de ICTP, Trieste, October 23-24, 2003 Mikroebene otraining / learning oIT and business (B2B, e-commerce) oe-consulting Meso-level oICT-based Networks of partners and service providers oConsultancy for the creation of Business Information Services oe-learning and web-based training (Curricula, Software: GIS-based Management Systeme) MicroBanking System (MBWIN) for Windows FAO/GTZ software Moduls for savings account, current account, time deposit, loans, share account, general ledger multilayer architecture, scalable network and database design Caja de Herramientas Rueda de Negocios Centroamericana ICTs & economy – GTZ areas of intervention II

17. gate carolin.bothe@gtz.de ICTP, Trieste, October 23-24, 2003 Public Private Partnership (PPP) Africa Drive Project (ADP) PPP of the University of North-West, with the Department of Education of the North West Province, SAP, GTZ, Siemens, eDegree, Paragon Development Forum and various other local and international supporters supports structural development and modernization of vocational education and training through cost- effective eLearning models in Engineering Colleges Global Trade Training leading German logistics together with GTZ in partnership with South African specialists in export, transport, customs and foreign exchange transactions interactive, web-based learning

18. gate carolin.bothe@gtz.de ICTP, Trieste, October 23-24, 2003 WSIS Responsible for the German postition: Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour (BMWA) GTZ in cooperation with BMZ, KfW, InWEnt, CIM supporting the development of the German position responsible for the German presentation at the WSIS marketplace

19. gate carolin.bothe@gtz.de ICTP, Trieste, October 23-24, 2003 Summary For the GTZ it appears of high importance to look at new and traditional ICTs likewise as a wide range of opportunities. For every social, cultural and financial niche the appropriate media, technology or activity needs to be identified. It has to be implemented and used in order to achieve the highest possible impact in the context of the overall goal of poverty reduction and the establishment of a human rights policy.

20. gate carolin.bothe@gtz.de ICTP, Trieste, October 23-24, 2003 Summary II “Taking ICT to people doesn't necessarily mean that you need to put a computer into every village. What you actually need to take to is the information that can make a difference. ICT is not an end in itself, rather a tool that needs to be adapted for local use.” Gaurab Raj Upadhaya, Radio Sagarmatha, Kathmandu, April 2002

21. gate carolin.bothe@gtz.de ICTP, Trieste, October 23-24, 2003 contact GTZ / GATE Information Service Dag-Hammarskjöld-Weg 1-5 65760 Eschborn Germany Phone: +49 (0)6196 794213 Fax: +49 (0)6196 797352 Email: gate-id@gtz.de carolin.bothe@gtz.de Internet: http://www.gtz.de/gate thank you for your attention !!

22. gate carolin.bothe@gtz.de ICTP, Trieste, October 23-24, 2003 links (e) - learning CRYSTAL: http://www.crystal-elearning.net/http://www.crystal-elearning.net/ kabissa: http://www.kabissa.org and http://www.timetogetonline.orghttp://www.kabissa.orghttp://www.timetogetonline.org networking INTI: http://www.inti-online.orghttp://www.inti-online.org IKON: http://www.gtz.de/ikon/http://www.gtz.de/ikon/ SHARED: http://www.shared.dehttp://www.shared.de Ecuarural: www.ecuarural.gov.ecwww.ecuarural.gov.ec InfoAgro: www.infoagro.gov.bowww.infoagro.gov.bo SIRA / SADA: www.sira-arequipa.com.pewww.sira-arequipa.com.pe CIPCA: www.piurarural.orgwww.piurarural.org cd-roms, radio & paper Radio Marañón: http://www.radiomaranon.org.pe/ http://www.radiomaranon.org.pe/ Human Info NGO: http://www.humaninfo.orghttp://www.humaninfo.org

23. gate carolin.bothe@gtz.de ICTP, Trieste, October 23-24, 2003 links ICTs & economy Information Gateway about Internet Portals for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME): http://www.gtz.de/sme-portals/http://www.gtz.de/sme-portals/ ICT and Private Sector: http://www.gtz.de/ICT-PrivateSector/http://www.gtz.de/ICT-PrivateSector/ Chances and Risks for SMEs: E-business in Developing Countries http://www.gtz.de/e-business/english/index.asp http://www.gtz.de/e-business/english/index.asp Microbanking software: http://www.gtz.de/themen/economic- development/english/financial-systems/services/fs-microbanking-software.htmhttp://www.gtz.de/themen/economic- development/english/financial-systems/services/fs-microbanking-software.htm Ruedas de Negocios Centroamericana: http://www.ruedacentroamericana.com/ http://www.ruedacentroamericana.com/ Red de Cajas de Herramientas: http://www.infomipyme.com/http://www.infomipyme.com/ PPP – Public Private Partnership http://www.gtz.de/ppp/english/ WSIS – World Summit on the Information Society http://www.wsis.org/ KfW: http://www.kfw.de/en/http://www.kfw.de/en/ CIM: http://www.cimffm.de/english/index.htmlhttp://www.cimffm.de/english/index.html InWEnt: http://www.inwent.org/http://www.inwent.org/ BMWA: http://www.bmwa.bund.de/Navigation/Service/english.htmlhttp://www.bmwa.bund.de/Navigation/Service/english.html BMZ: http://www.bmz.de/en/index.htmlhttp://www.bmz.de/en/index.html