FOREST GOVERNANCE 2.0:FORESTS AND AGRICULTURAL ICT

Tuukka Castrén, World Bank

January 18,2012

Forest Governance and ICT

review on how forest governance and law

enforcement is supported by ICTo global caseso country reports – Ghana, Finland, Uganda

mapping based on systematic forest governance

frameworko World Bank (2009)o PROFOR governance pillar

what are lessons learnt and guidance for action

Law enforcement

Liberia: from stump to port

On-line timber sales

Public participation

What is the status?

increased access to ICT has led too innovations in

- increased demand for good governance- increased public participation

o traditional uses in mapping, measuring and monitoring forests carbon are becoming more efficient, cost-effective and could be inclusive as well

technology has been used and it has potentialo but it alone does not change the landscapeo projects have to be well designed, sustainable

Where can we improve?

systematic approach to ICT application- anecdotal accounts, fragmented landscape - ICT use limited to one-off experiments

information on costs, sustainability or scaling up

linking ICT development to institutional

reforms

Full report

PROFOR, a multidonor trust fund http://www.profor.info/profor/knowledge/

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