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| German University in Cairo |
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Title
Electronic Governance for Rural Communities
Date/Time
Tuesday 02 December 2008, 17:00 - 18:00
Moderator(s)
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Dr. Robert Schware |
Panelists
Robert Schware, Academy of Educational Development, USA (organizer)
Tunc D. Medeni, Türksat, Turkey
Rama Krushna Das, National Informatics Centre, Government of India
Manas Ranjan Patra, Berhampur University, India
Deepthi Shankar, IIT, Guwahati, Assam, India
Description
The track record of well-designed eGovernment projects serving urban populations in developing countries that have realized benefits is short, complex and difficult to measure. Successful eGovernment projects serving and empowering rural populations are even more difficult to find. With a total ICT component portfolio estimated currently at US$7.3b and less than half of the projects rated "satisfactory" by the World Bank's own evaluation system, it would seem that a lot of ICT projects can waste precious resources that could be devoted to competing development needs. In the end, rural eGovernment boils down to people using different forms of shared access in ways that make government more accessible, effective and accountable. Every stakeholder eventually asks "What's in it for me?" In this panel we present cases rural e-Government projects that have involved rural citizens in the implementation of the project or addressed key policy issues upfront.
Biography
Dr. Robert Schware is the Managing Director of Global Learning Portal, Academy for Educational Development.
Robert Schware managed the World Bank's largest portfolio of IT investments in the education, health, and public management sectors before retiring in 2006 after 22 years of service as Lead Informatics Specialist and e-Government Practice Group Leader of the Global Information and Communications Technology Department. He is currently Managing Director of the Global Learning Portal (www.glp.net), a free, social network of teachers and educational organizations, and a Senior Consultant with the Global E-Team on e-Government and Technology Policy.
While at the World Bank, he was responsible for the World Bank's World Summit on the Information Society report on "e-Development: From Excitement to Effectiveness." He was the team leader for the Information and Communications Sector Strategy Paper of the World Bank Group. He worked in the field on telecommunications reform and information technology-related projects in East and South Asia, Africa, the Caribbean and the Middle East. His early work at the World Bank facilitated a pioneering competitive strategy for India's software industry with NASSCOM and the former Department of Electronics. He helped the Ministry of Education in Turkey establish its education portal, and 5,000 IT classrooms with Internet connectivity and local software throughout the country. He helped break the telecom monopoly in the Eastern Caribbean and establish the region’s independent regulatory agency, ECTEL. He authored and co-authored such works as an Internet Toolkit Manual for Policy Makers in Africa, Information Technology and National Trade Facilitation Guide to Best Practice and Rural Applications of ICT in India. He received a PhD from the London School of Economics, and was a Fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations.
He has worked with UNIDO, UNITAR, ASEAN, and was a member of the feasibility study for the establishment of the UNU IIST in Macau. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India.
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