Date: Wednesday, October 18 & 20, 200
Event Type: Video Seminar
Participating Countries: Armenia, Armenia, Moldova, Ukraine, Russia, Uzbekistan
Program Description
This seminar is a World Bank response to the growing interest in many client countries in designing and implementing national ICT strategies in order to mainstream the use of ICT in the development agenda. Many developing countries have already formulated their national e-strategies and many others are in the process in order to meet the recommendations of the World Summit on the Information Society which took place in Geneva in December 2003. Many countries will be reporting on their progress in designing and implementing their ICT strategies at Tunisia WSIS Summit in 2005. Therefore, many World Bank’s client countries are actively seeking support in this area.
We will review the World Bank experience in this field and focus on the e-Sri Lanka approach of implementing national e-strategy which involved integrated e-development assistance by the World Bank as the pioneering e-Sri Lanka Development project was just approved by the Board of Directors and is entering a full-scale implementation stage. How did the Bank get involved in supporting the e-Sri Lanka vision? What are the lessons learned so far? Is this model replicable in other countries? How can a country initiate a similar project? What is the process? Is such a model feasible in participating countries? What kind of adaptation will be needed?
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