Second SG13 Regional Workshop for Africa on
"Future Networks: Cloud Computing, Energy
Saving, Security, and Virtualization"
Tunis, Tunisia, 28 April 2014
ALI YAHIAOUI ,
Chief ICT Officer, African Development Bank a.yahiaoui@afdb.org
ali.yahiaoui1505@gmail.com

AfDB Group Overview
Connect Africa Summit –Kigali 2007
Transform Africa Summit – Kigali 2013
Strategic Application of ICT in Africa -E-
Transform Africa Study
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Financing
Products
Grants &
Concessional
Lending
Type of
Intervention
Projects & program-based operations
Procuremen t
Goods
Loans & Equity
Investments
Technical
Assistance &
Policy-based
Lending
Non-project activities
Works
Services
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Higher Education and
Science &
Technology
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Strategic Thrust for the Bank’s ICT
Medium Term Strategy & Action Plan
Medium -term
Focus
ICT Priority
Areas
Country
Focus
Gender, climate change

Table 1 - Bank Group’s non sovereign lending operations in ICT Infrastructure over the past four years
Projects
Submarine
Cables
EASSy
Bank investment
(million $)
15
Total mobilized funds
(million USD)
235
Satellites
Telecom
Towers
Main One
Helios Towers
Nigeria
60
RASCOM
New Dawn
Other 3 billion
50
30
50
30
268
380
240
1200
345
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Table 2 - The Bank’s financing for regional and national ICT pre-investment studies on infrastructure
Grants for preinvestment studies in USD million
I – Regional Backbone Studies
East African Community Broadband Infrastructure
Network
SADC Backhaul Link
ECOWAS Wide Area Network
0.45
1.40
0.50
Central African Backbone
North African Backbone
Maritime Communication for safety on Lake
Victoria
1.09
0.45
0.50
II - National Infrastructure Studies
Seychelles submarine cable system
Egypt Navigation Satellite
0.45
0.90
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Table 3 – Bank grants to governments for capacity building purpose Grants in USD million
Grants for
Feasibility studies in USD million
0.750 Algeria: Feasibility study for the modernization of the information system
Algeria : feasibility Study and action plan for the ICT strategy and the Egov Strategy
1.2
Cape Verde: Feasibility study for the Technology Center in Praia 0.440
.3
Cote D’Ivoire: Feasibility Study for the eGov strategy and action plan
Senegal: Feasibility study for the Digital City
Mali: Feasibility study for the Bamako Digital Complex
.5
0.225
0.730 Morocco: Strengthening the supervision and control of the financial markets
Morocco: Strengthening the national system of guarantee
Rwanda: Feasibility study for Center of Excellence
Tunisia – Feasibility study for Regional Center of Excellence
Tunisia – Feasibility Study and action Plan for the eGov Strategy and Open Platforms
South Sudan : Feasibility Study for the eGov strategy and national backbone
0.700
0.100
0.475
.7
.4
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Table 4 - The Bank’s financing for ICT Projects
Amounts in $ US
I – Centers of Excellence
RWANDA – Kigali ICT Regional Center of Excellence 25
MALI – Bamako Technology Center
CAPO VERDE – PRAIA Technology Center
II : National Backbones and EGov Platforms
Lesotho – National backbone and data center
31
35
12.8
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In 2007 Connect Africa Summit in Kigali, five goals were set :
Goal 1: Interconnect all African capitals and major cities with ICT broadband infrastructure and strengthen connectivity to the rest of the world by 2012
Goal 2: Connect African villages to broadband ICT services by
2012 and implement initiatives such as community telecentres and villages phones
Goal 3: Adopt key regulatory measures that promote affordable, widespread access to a full range of broadband ICT services
Goal 4: Support the development of a critical mass of ICT skills required by the knowledge economy through the establishment of ICT centers of excellence and ICT-capacity building and training centers
Goal 5: Adopt a national e-strategy, including a cyber security framework, and deploy at least one flagship e-government service as well as e-education and e-health services using accessible technologies in each country in Africa by 2012, with the aim of making multiple egovernment and other e-services widely available by 2015.
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. Transform Africa Summit – Kigali 2013
From 2007 – 2013 Africa concentrated on building ICT national broadband backbone/regional infrastructures
Objectives of the Transform –Africa Summit:
To pool together International participants to set a new agenda for Africa to leapfrog development challenges through the use and uptake of Broadband and related services.
To leverage on the progress registered in connectivity since the Connect Africa Summit and use technology to reduce poverty, enhance participation, improve service delivery and create prosperity for our people
To accelerate sustainable socioeconomic development on the continent and usher Africa into the knowledge
economy through affordable access to Broadband and usage of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT).
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Transform Summit 2013 (suite)
Outcome of the Summit
The Transform Africa Summit agreed on a manifesto comprising five principles.
Principle 1: To put ICT at the center of our national socio-economic development agenda
Principle 2: To improve access to ICT especially
Broadband to build on the continent’s progress in connectivity especially in underserved areas
Principle 3: To improve accountability, efficiency and openness through ICT, Develop and implement national e-Government policies and open Data initiatives.
Principle 4: To put the Private Sector First: foster an enabling environment for private investments to drive job creation, productivity and competitiveness supported.
Principle 5: To leverage ICT to promote sustainable development
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4. eTransform Africa Study: Objectives
• Take stock of emerging uses and applications of ICTs that are having transformative effects on social and economic development
• Identify key ICT applications (Africa and worldwide) that have the potential for replications and scaling up
• Identify constraints that negatively impact ICT adoption and scaling up, including in policy and regulatory environment
• Develop a common framework among stakeholders, development partners and the donor community for future ICT interventions
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Sector
Agriculture
Climate Change
Adaptation
Education
Focus Areas
Traceability technologies (RFID) in cattle
Water management for irrigation
Climate change adaptation, exploration of applications, tools and systems for adaptive action
Open schools through mobile technologies, education networking, monitoring student and teacher attendance
Financial Services
Health
Local ICT Sector
Modernizing
Government
Trade and Regional
Integration
Mobile banking, cloud computing,
Mobile health, tracking patients, monitoring health clinics
Business Process Outsourcing, mobile and online payment platforms, e-commerce
Citizen/community interface, eFiling for tax collection, link online payment system to IFMIS
Linking regional trade entities (eg COMESA, ECOWAS, SADC), logistics, transparent flow of goods, customs standardization
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Lessons from the eTransform sectoral studies i). Agriculture
Case studies :
• Analysis of the use of RFID tags for tracking livestock in
Botswana
• ICT sensor networks used in water management for irrigation
The cases show how ICT can help address some of the challenges facing agriculture and food security in Africa.
• Esoko ( in Ghana) is another good example of ICT in improving agricultural market information services ii). Climate Change
Case studies: Malawi, Senegal and Uganda.
ICTs role to the impacts of climate change on the potential consequences of climate change, vulnerability to projected impacts, identifying priorities for adaptation
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Lessons from the sectoral studies iii). Education
Case studies in South Africa and Uganda.
A critical element concerns :
- access learning materials and collaboration platforms.
- Connectivity for accessing learning resources.
iv). Health
Case studies of Ethiopia and Mali.
 Example: as exemplified by the IKON teleradiology program in Mali.
v). Modernizing Government through ICT
Case studies:
• Integrated financial management systems in Malawi;
• electronic tax filing in South Africa.
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Lessons from the sectoral studies vi). Financial Services
Case studies :
Senegal, Kenya.
State
Focus of Maturity
Consumer Public Sector
• Mobile banking has reached a tipping point in Africa and now is the time for policy makers to act boldly.
• Financial inclusion has improved in
Kenya - where active bank accounts have grown fourfold since
2007 aided by some
17 million M-PESA mobile money accounts.
Formative State
Scaling State
Desired State
 Product diversification
 Wider consumer identification options
 Raise overall awareness
 Incent and require obtaining
ID
 Ensure competitive environments and consumer protection
Engage in policy experimentation in:
 data standardization and alternatives
 transparent property ownership
 Remove artificial levies on technologies
 Mandate IPv6 transition and compliance
 Policy conducive to integrated financial services in place
Private Sector
 Diversify products and capital raising channels
 Minimize monopoly and ramp up interoperability
 Full-fledged Interoperability
 Platforms for basic payments as semi-public products
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Lessons from the sectoral studies vii). Regional trade and Integration
• The cross-cutting study included case studies of
Botswana, Kenya and Senegal
• The studies focused on ICT use in governance, logistics and cross-border information exchange mechanisms.
ICTs and trade – the supporting environment
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Lessons from the sectoral studies viii). ICT Competitiveness
Case studies of Kenya, Morocco and Nigeria.
Provided the African ICT market continues its impressive double-digit growth, the market could be worth more than US$150 billion by
2016.
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Africa’s challenge for this decade is to build on the mobile success story and broadband progress to complete the transformation.
Now is the time for rigorous evaluation,
replication, innovation and scaling up of best practice.
To be able to do this it will require: i) reducing the cost of access for mobile broadband ii) supporting government private-sector collaboration iii) improving the eCommerce environment iv) enhancing ICT labor market skills v) encouraging innovative business models that drive employment, such as microwork and BPO vi) creating spaces that support ICT entrepreneurship, such as ICT incubators, and local ICT development clusters.
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