1 New Economy Skills for Africa Program Information and Communication Technology (NESAP-ICT) A Joint AFTHD/ GICT/ AFTFP Program Jee-Peng Tan, Education Adviser, Africa Region, World Bank South-South Learning Visit to India February 8,2009

2 Overview Why NESAP-ICT? Objectives of NESAP-ICT Key Focus Areas and Strategy Implementation Status Funding Sources Deliverables South-South Learning

3 Scarcity of ICT skills in Africa amid rapidly growing telecom and services sectors  Reduces potential returns on ICT investments  Disincentive for new investors Increasing demand but poor performing ICT components in Bank education projects. Africa Region has highest ICT components Emerging opportunity for employment creation through IT enabled services ($475bn market in 2007, 15% tapped) Why NESAP-ICT?

4 Objective of NESAP-ICT Support the specific ICT educational and skills needs of targeted African countries Build capacity to better design, implement and ICT projects/components Pilot a new way of working collaboratively across sectors to address a common need

5 Key Focus Areas Skills Development to support ICT investments and for IT/ITES industry for Integration of ICTs into education and training(teacher training programs, vocational training, integration of ICTs into curricula)‏ Capacity building for Integration of ICTs into education and training (teacher training programs, vocational training, integration of ICTs into curricula)‏, governance and management of the education system e.g. EMIS, NRENs Use of ICT as an enabler to improve performance, governance and management of the education system e.g. EMIS, NRENs Provision of ICT equipment and bandwidth will be integrated into the above as necessary.

6 Strategy  Mainstreaming into Country Development Strategy  Fostering cross-sectoral collaboration  Partnering with Private sector  Leveraging South-South Learning  Strong Government commitment and institutional leadership

7 NESAP-ICT Implementation Status 8 participating countries: Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania Endorsed by Country “Champions” Scoping missions: Mozambique, Nigeria and Kenya. Needs Assesment in Progress South-South Learning (GDLN, India Visit)

8 Deliverables by June 2009 Draft Implementation Action Plans for all countries by end of SSLV Follow-Up Workshop (end May, 2009) ICT Skills Needs Assessment completed in at east 3 countries Baseline Study on the Status of the IT/ITES industry in Africa. Publication in FY10

9 South-South Learning Visit (Feb. 8-21) Objectives  Facilitate knowledge sharing (Africa-Africa-India)  Provide exposure to the “how to” of ICT skills development and the IT/ITES industry  Networking (Africa-Africa-India) Expected Outcomes  Country action plans for ICT skills development  Collaborative linkages to implement the plans  Continued Peer-Peer learning

10 Participants Up to 5 people per country from:  Education and Training Institutions involved in ICT skills development  BPO Practitioners and entrepreneurs from the private sector  ICT Regulatory Bodies  Senior Government officials from the ministry responsible for ICT development Senior IT/ITES experts from Korea, Philippines World Bank: TTLs, Managers, NESAP-ICT Team

11 Design and Activities  Duration – February (two weeks)  Host: NASSCOM  Locations –Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bangalore  Pre and Post Visit GDLN Events  Week 1 2-day Workshop:  Country Presentations on preliminary action plans  Presentations of India, Philippines and Korea experiences Participation in NASSCOM Annual Leadership Forum  Week 2  Field Visits to selected enterprises & institutions  Working session by country teams to develop action plans

12 Thank You Contacts: Peter Materu (TTL):

13 ICT in IBRD/IDA Portfolio No. of Projects identified with ICT ICT Commitment Amt. US$M Total1,0397,736 Portfolio9306,198 Pipeline Other 3 901,071 1: Refers to the total number of projects reviewed (1630) as part of the ICT dimension study – as of Nov : Only includes pipeline projects with clear ICT components identified 3: ‘Other’ includes projects other than investment lending (incl. GPP, IDF, GEF, Special funds etc) 64% of Bank projects 1 (pipeline and portfolio) have ICT components Total ICT investments estimated at about $7.73 billion (‘94-’06)

Bank ICT investments in Education are also growing In AFR, education sector has largest number of operations with ICTs, with commitments averaging $168 million a year; evaluation indicates performance is poor and ICT components in education projects have consistently risen in the period

15 Impact of the Sector ICT’s contribution to economic growth...and on investments 35% of total FDI in SSA was from telecom Source: World Bank WDI (2007) Telecom FDI versus Total FDI in SSA ( ) Other FDI, $36 billion Telecom FDI, $20 billion 5 Telecommunication service revenues as a percentage of GDP,

16 ~475 ~65 ~130 Estimated Addressable market Penetrated market 2007 Estimated penetrated market 2010 ~ 27%~ 14% ~200 ~27 ~55 Estimated Addressable market Penetrated market 2007 Estimated penetrated market 2010 ~28%~14% ~125 ~20 ~30 Estimated Addressable market Penetrated market 2007 Estimated penetrated market 2010 ~24%~16% ~150 ~18 ~45 Estimated Addressable market Penetrated market 2007 Estimated penetrated market 2010 ~30%~12% Global IT/ITES market IT servicesEngineering servicesIT enabled services +40% +15% +35%+25% Source: McKinsey & Co. various estimates. Percentage of addressable market CAGR between 2007 and 2010

17 Source: Tholons 2006 ITES marketIT services market Source: NASSCOM-Everest 2008