[UgaBYTES] [witfor] Public private partnership and ICts

[AC GARCHITORENA, Victoria P.]

Hi, Su Shashan, 

Ayala Foundation in the Philippines has spearheaded GILAS (for Gearing
up Internet Literacy and Access for Students) which is a multi-sectoral
Social Consortium working with many private companies and also with the
national and local governments. 

It is an ambitious project to putting computer labs with internet access
in all 6,300 of our public high schools across our 7,100 islands. To
date, we have connected 1,837 schools, reaching at least 918,500
students and thousands of teachers. 

You can find more information on www.gilas.org. 

FYI

Vicky G.


Victoria P. Garchitorena
President
Ayala Foundation, Inc.
32/F Tower One, Ayala Ave.
Makati City 1226 Philippines
T +632 759 4347
F +632 848 5764
www.ayalafoundation.org

President
Ayala Foundation USA
255 Shoreline Drive Suite 428
Redwood City CA 94065
USA
T +1 650 598 3126
M +1 510 334 0384
www.af-usa.org


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Subject: [witfor] Public private partnership and ICts

In recent years there has been a good deal of momentum in bring the 
public and the private to collaborate in several developing 
countries.  In fact the participation was always there.. just that it 
was always on the terms of the powerful. Now it has become a bit more 
acceptable in the public sphere to grant some advantages of private 
initiatives leading to better results.

So a large number of projects are being patronised by the public 
sector and initiated by the private sector with the governments or 
the public sector taking a relatively lesser role and leaving the 
management and governance in the hands of the private sector.

Do you know of any important initiatives where such experiments have 
succeeded in the case of ICT for Development as well?

Would you like to share these experiences or knowledge of such 
initiatives with this group?

Do you see such initiatives adding to some good?

Sugam (Su) Sarkar (Shashan)
or Good Government (in English)


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