Mapping ICT4D/KM projects in Ethiopia

Ethiopia

HealthAgriculture

Education

Business

Gov. Service

An overview on the ICT project

NLMIS

TNS

CIDEV

ECX

IBX

LMS

IFS

C4C

EP

UBS

NGP

WSWM

EEdu

FMS

ERSP

IPMS

LCRSP

eclss

WMS

Government service

Agriculture

Education

C4C

• Focus: To make an inventory of agricultural projects(this is a start, we will expand to other sectors later;) that have interesting information and communication technology for development (ICT4D) and Knowledge management or communication projects – which are currently functional across the country

• Rationale: • Know who’s doing what where• Find out about interesting approaches, methods and tools• Encourage learning across initiatives (around common challenges)

and avoid duplication of efforts (around common opportunities)• Match-making and joint project opportunities might open an

opportunity to join forces among projects that work with similar goal ?

Focus and rationale of this project

Methodology used

. Data collected from information Agency like MCIT• Informal interview also called semi-structured interviews

among individuals• Internet browsing• Observation• Telephone interviews among program partners• Email exchange with program directors and evaluators• Feedback from KM4Dev group to improve this work• Formation of an informal task force• Development of Google doc to list projects

Feedback from KM4Dev group • Focus on KM projects not just ICT• Which services are being developed / used where? • Commercial and non-commercial projects;• Develop a central/accessible place to access this

information – with possibility to upload info onto it;• Carry out target groups’ needs assessment;• Carry out project impact assessment;• Each of our organization to contribute information about

‘champion’ projects we know.

Feedback we received• What we Included:

• Created accessible place to upload information which is the Google doc• Considered KM related activity• Outlined information we seek from the projects • Contributed one or more projects from our own organization or that we know very well

What we are not going to do:• Needs assessment• Impact assessment• Commercial projects (unless for development)

• What we will do later:• Considering outcomes and impact of these projects• Scaling up (considering the scale of intervention)• Expanding to other sectors and initiatives• Developing an ICT tool for the mapping and matchmaking?

Sample

Creation of a task force

Meti

EwenHermella

Fanos

Fitsum

Addis

Elias

Overview of projects on Google doc• What

How you can contribute to this:• Now:

• Provide names of interesting projects (in this scope)• (if possible) Highlight ‘unique selling point’ (USP) and/or interesting

insights• Select – together – the USP and insight you’d like to discuss at the

next gathering

• In the future: • Fill out other details on the Google doc• Join our group?• Help develop other sub-projects (e.g. mapping other sectors’

projects, working on ICT tool etc.)