Roberto Masiero

President THINK!
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ICT and Non - Profit : Tales of innovationCampus Milan, 22/11/2010, Bicocca

ICT Observatory of Non Profit THINK! The Innovation Knowledge

Summary
1.Innovation, Digital Technologies and Human Development 2.ICT4D: Tales of innovation from the developing countries 3.ICT for environmental and energy sustainability 4.For Profit or Non-Profit?

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Esther Duflos lessons

Co-founder of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab She is a recipient of the 2010 John Bates Clark Medal for economists under the age of forty

Academics versus practitioners Our duty is to make available our knowledge of technology to the development of less developed countries THINK! The Innovation Knowledge Foundation
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IT Investiments and development: from neoliberal theories

HIGHER PER - CAPITA INCOME AND GDP
LOWER PRICES HIGHER WAGES INCREASED TAX REVENUES

LESS SEVERE ECONOMIC DOWNTURNS

MORE JOBS

FASTER PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH

ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENES S

LOWER INFLATION

INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

FLEXIBLE SUPPLY CHAINS

ACCESSIBLE AND FLEXIBLE WORK OPPORTUNITI ES

INCREASED EFFICIENCY

HIGHER QUALITY GOODS AND SERVICES

BETTER DECISIONS MAKING TOOLS

LARGER AND MORE EFFICIENT MARKETS

NEW RESEARCH TOOLS

Source: ITIF

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ( hardware , software , applications and telecommunications )

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Sustainability as a: Supply Chain across Generations

Sustainable development is defined as development that "meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet Driving their own needs - Brundtland Commission, 1987 sustainability improvements
You can t change what you don t measure

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP

ECONOMIC PROSPERITY

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to a new concept of human development

HIGHER HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

POVERTY REDUCTION

HPI - 2

HIGHER PER - CAPITA GDP

HDI

BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE

BETTER PUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY

REDUCTION IN HUMAN ISOLATION

ACCESS TO GLOBAL MARKETS FOR LOCAL SMEs

MORE JOBS

MORE EFFICIENT SUPPLY CHAINS

HIGHER EFFICIENCY OF INTERNAL RETAIL SYSTEMS

NEW SECTORAL TOOLS ( E - HEALTH , E - SCHOOL , EINCLUSION )

REDUCTION IN INFORMATION ASYMMETRIES

S o u rce : I I T F

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

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emerging Countries in terms of access to digital technologies vs. human development for Selected Nations DOI-HDI Correlation
1,000 Human Development Index (HDI) 0,950 0,900 0,850 0,800 0,750 0,700 0,650
IN D IA INDONESIA EGYPT CUBA COLOMBIA PE R U CHILE MEXICO MALAYSIA RUSSIA CHINA BRASIL UAE FINLAND SPAIN ITALY US C A NADA SWEDEN UK KOREA S I N G A P O RE

ESTONIA

SOUTH AFRICA MAROCCO

0,600 0,550 0,500 0,20 0,30 0,40 0,50 0,60 0,70 0,80 Source: THINK! 0,90 Digital Opportunity Index (DOI)

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Tales of Innovation : Hole-In-the-Wall Education, India, Bhutan, Cambogia, Africa

Hole - In - the - Wall Education

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Tales of Innovation: eHomemakers, Malesia

eHomemaker s

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Tales of Innovation: Sambaina ICT Village, Madagascar

Sambaina ICT Village

Satellitar Connessionthrough Infopoverty satellitar platform

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Tales of Innovation: Akshaya e-Centres, Kerala, India

Akshaya e Centres

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How ICT can help in enabling a sustainable enterprise

e Impact of Supply Chain to embedded energy , water and Manufacturing and donati Prevent magazine obsolescence by Lean GHG

iendly and fair trade sourcing options for raw materials Use LCA in designing sustainable products an

ronmental impact of shipping , ,delivering recycling with take - back service for e Reduce waste increase and goods packaging

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Nonprofits, Governments and Business Supporting Consumers Increasing Demand For Transparency
Non Encourage or force disclosure of corporations pro environmental commitments and performance fit The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) about GHG s Greenpeace campaign on consumer electronics Fair Trade campaigns, Local NGO Gov Disclosure requirements, Cap & Trade ern GHG emissions for large emitters men Mandatory and opt-in environmental labeling t EU mandatory labeling of energy-using /related products Energy Star label in the U.S. Bus Voluntary disclosure of sustainability efforts Wal-Mart launched the Sustainability Index: ine Patagonia publishes the Footprint Chronicles ss

ICT for energy and environmental sustainability

European Union

New Zealand

Financial sustainability Indexes: DJSI, FSTE4GOOD Good Guide environmental, health and social index of over 60K products
US A

New services guiding consumers

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Who gets the e-waste trash?

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Il Diamante ICT4D THINK !: dell innovazione Digitale Educatio the n Quality of Life
Diamond of Digital Innovation
Quality of Life

Healthca re eInclusi on Digital Cities and Infomobility

sting in digital infrastructure rcoming the Digital Divide chmarking Innovation Policies

Clo N uano d Cc te Digital h omo Web n2.0 ol Technologies ge pius tin g

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ICT & Produtivity Indu Sustaining the competitiveness of local enter

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Sharing processes Sharing information Sharing IT solutions

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ICT and Non-Profit Organizations

At the moment, except for some rare cases, in Italy Non-Profit organizations are very fragmented and have only occasional and marginal links with ICT on the other hand the ICT Industry has barely a vague knowledge of the Non-Profit Sector and of its potential .. As a result ICT Industry is often simply recycling in this sector general purpose products and the NonProfit Manager often 17

For Profit or NonProfit?

However Non-Profit Organisations can play a key role:

in promoting the use of ICT to facilitate human development in ensuring energy and environmental sustainability of New Technologies (Apple/Greenpeace case)

Furthermore Non-Profit may open-up new big markets as Quality of Life, eInclusion, Education and Healthcare both in Mature and in Less Developed Countries, that until now have been barely addressed due to the short18 THINK The Innovation Knowledge sighted views of most !of the ICT Vendors

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Orchestrating for Profit and Non-Profit for the Human Development

So the future lies in a big effort for opening communications and orchestrating the joint commitment of Non-Profit Organizations and of socially responsible ICT Companies. While they are pursuing different sets of objectives, they may have a number of common interests that can favour the deployment of a wider concept of human development.

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Contact details

Roberto Masiero

President THINK!

Mail: rmasiero@thinkinnovation.org

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