[UgaBYTES] Open Consultations on Financial Mechanisms: Meeting the Challenges of ICT for Development (8-9 October, Geneva, Switzerland)

[Wagner, Gerhard]

Dear Bazlu,

I found only ways of funding:

I. DIRECT funding:
a) PPP
b) liberalising the telecom and media markets
c) funding by local NGOs (limited)
d) funding by foreign NGOs (not sustainable)
e) LOCAL CITIZEN FOUNDATIONS (a la German model):
they are very successfull and might work to a certain
extent also in LDC and transformation countries.
Ministry of Finance grants tax benefits if you
donate money to such local foundations.

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II. INDIRECT funding:

a) percentage of sales from the export industry

b) percentage of sales from new multimedia
products for TOURISTS (thats a mid- and long-term
strategy for tourists),

I personally would recommend the I-e) model
and the two forms of indirect founding.
They require a support by public sector,
at least to grant tax benefits.

It is event that intenational organisations and NGOs
cannot continue their role as donors on mid-term.
so it is up to YOU on local level to evaluate some
of the options which I offered at the beginning.

kind regards,


Gerhard (Austria)

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At 17:26 30.08.2009, AHM Bazlur Rahman wrote:
>Open Consultations on Financial Mechanisms: Meeting the Challenges 
>of ICT for Development (8-9 October, Geneva, Switzerland)
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>The financing of information and communications technologies (ICTs) 
>for development is an important area to address in the context 
>promoting a more inclusive global information society. Wider 
>diffusion and better use of ICTs can help to achieve more 
>effectively the goals outlined in the Millennium Declaration.
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>The WSIS Tunis Agenda for the Information Society (November 2005) 
>recognizes the scale of the challenge in bridging the digital 
>divide, which will require adequate and sustainable investments in 
>ICT infrastructure and services, and capacity building, and transfer 
>of technology over many years to come. There is a continuous need to 
>evaluate how existing as well as new financial mechanisms can 
>support greater access and use of ICTs in developing countries. 
>Following a recommendation by the United Nations Economic and Social 
>Council (ECOSOC), UNGIS is pleased to announce that Open 
>Consultations on Financial Mechanisms for Meeting the Challenges of 
>ICT for Development will take place from 8-9 October 2009 in Geneva, 
>Switzerland.
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>These Open Consultations will offer a unique opportunity to review 
>progress, share views and discuss new approaches at the national, 
>regional and international level to the financing of ICTs for 
>development. It will give the possibility to develop a better 
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>Bazlu
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>AHM. Bazlur Rahman-S21BR
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>Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication(BNNRC)
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