Current Status of the IT sector in Madagascar A quick overview for the SSLEV Mrs Miangaly Andriamampandry Ingenosya Febuary 2009

The IT sector in Madagascar For about 19M people: 5 Tel op. (~5M users) + 3 Internet Providers (~ 200K users) > 2500 jobs Software Development (5.000 employees, mostly for export) 8 Call Centers (~ op., 3 from telecoms) 24 local TV channels + 1 national + 3 sat. ~200 local radios

IT Training Status Number of graduates: 5,000 per year Among them: 600 engineers In IT: 50 engineers and 450 technicians 27 IT schools (9 public), 1 Cisco, 1 Linux, 3 Microsoft Certification centers Basic IT knowledge is gradually introduced into most curricula

Cisco Certification Program at INATA Cisco Certified Network Associate: CCNA 1: Networks basics CCNA 2: Routing basics CCNA 3: Commutation and Routing CCNA 4: Wan Technologies Courses are inline and are completed by practical exercises (248h in total) CCNA is an industry recognized certification that can be obtained after 6 to 18 months training

Partnership with India Central Government network development Pan African VVIP/Health/Higher Education network

Succes Stories 1,200 village phones by Zain in Q ,000 refurbished computers distributed to schools in 2008 eBit: national tradeshow and IT promotion event

Major Issues Energy: the non availability of electricity in most rural areas is slowing down the IT development Training: we can’t even meet the current IT sector’s needs Cost of communication: still too much satellite use

Strategy of Development Infrastructure development Contents development: suited to the people and supporting the businesses, both in malagasy and foreign languages (FR - EN) e-Administration Training: within 10 years, 10M users of IT, we must produce 30K IT specialists to support the growth of the sector and the role of the country in the region Entrepreneurship development Trade in IT development

Action Plan Infrastructure : finish up the national Backbone and enhance access ICT for all: ICT villages, e-contents e-Administration: 3 phases from the central offices to the regional and local communities Training: increase the capacity of the training centers and focus on industry recognized certification programs, high speed network of the Universities Development of an IT business park (Antanetibe)

IT forum in Malagasy regions Novatech, IT meeting with Africa and UE E-Commerce regulation : electronic documents, electronic signature, Cybercrime, intellectual property, … Internet banking Action Plan