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Raphael Mmasi (PhD) Director of Information and Documentation COSTECH

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The Internet users distribution

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Hope for the future

VC to ensure that the ideas make it to market
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Telecoms and Internet: the cost of being connected

300% 250% 200%
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Nepal

Monthly internet access charge as a percent of monthly average income

Bangladesh

150% 100% 50% 0%

278% 191% Bhutan 80% Sri Lanka 60%

Sri Lanka

United States 1.20%

Denmark 0.135%

Source: Human Development Report Office calculations based on data ITU 2000 and World Bank 2001 Dr. Mmasi Raphael

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Virtualization of material products: myths and reality

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Capacity for Technology Assimilation

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Technology Transfer Players

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Government

R&D Institution/Academia

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Entreprene urs

Business Ventures

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Interventions

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Incubator program; Cluster program; Rhapta City Program; IT/BPO Skills enhancement program.

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COSTECH Driving ICT Agenda

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ICT Initiatives in the Pipeline

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Ladder Towards Smart Village

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Communities Grass-root projects Social Entrepreneur ship Microloan

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Non-Profit Sector

PreIncubation Research Entrepreneur Higher Learning ial mindset & Research Inventions Institutions

SMEs Corporation Venture capital, angel funding Crowding funding

Private Sector

Public Sector

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Framework Policy Making Enabling Environment Public funding, research

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Smart Village

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100 acres of land has been secured for Smart Village Data Center is the fundamental building block towards Smart village Multi-national Companies to collaborate side-by-side with local SMEs Cyber city gateway will assist in the creation of an enabling and conducive cyber city environment to facilitate electronic knowledge, Dr. Mmasi Raphael networking and innovation.

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Data Centre

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Mckinsey has just presented business case to the partners Intended to be zero emission It will be implemented via Public Private Partnership (ppp) involving:
COSTECH SEACOM

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Developing IT/BPO Talent pool

Proposed Strategies:

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Mobile Social Networking

Infodev Grants:

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Mobile Monday events every month at COSTECH: Stimulate innovations and creativity Facilitate crowd funding for startups
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Dar ICT Business Incubator

Supported by Infodev for two years: COSTECH is hosting as well as contributing finance, space and utilities for three years:
Vodacom is committed to contribute for three years Advisory Board with the member from public, Academy, Private, Financial Institutions, Telecom. Incubator Manager, Finance Manager have been recruited 4 SMEs incubatedDr. Mmasi 8 SMEs on virtual and Raphael

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-Sharing of Educational and Research Resources -Easy checking in Plagiarism within local Unive and later globally Shared e-resources, e-journals etc.. Utilisation of Super computers - Quality of research currently journals are local to the institutions! Let them go International then we can patent

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ICT collaborative research and innovation

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Thanks to ICT scientific research and innovation the original networked communication between universities that allowed the birth of the Internet is From 1995 97, scientists in the United States increasingly coauthored collaborative articles with scientists from 173 other countries; scientists in Brazil with between 114, and in Kenya with 81 institutions and Dr. Mmasi Raphael

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IT/ITES; Rhapta City; Co-creation and Living labs; MoMo; VC, Angel Funding, Crowding sourcing

Future Thinking

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION

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