Flip Chart notes People, Networks and Capacity

Key issues in people’s capabilities relation to equitable access.

Access v/s smart access.
Focus on basic skills v/s critical strategic skills
Technological adaptation.
Secure communications (knowledge of)
ICT Convergence – Radio, ICT use, mobile phones
Practical usability of the information -
Identifying patterns of communications (related) behaviour.
Community – based design of resources
Communities’ capacities
Assessment of needs at various levels of implementation
Resources (time/finance) at donor – recipient
Information relevant to community context.
Provide services according to community needs and management.
Lack of community based ICT services (relevance of ICTs to rural, poor communities)
The “Capacity gap”
Equitable access – how accepted as a priority by governments, how much present in policies?
Different NGOs with different competencies – possibility for “network collaboration”
Motivation. Generating / rewarding interest.
Personal v/s organizational capacity
Migration of skilled
Financial planning
Capacity building, technical content creation management
Women and other marginalized groups – disabled, language minorities, etc.

Strategies for spending 1 mln USD on solving this:

Build capacities within communities to manage, maintain and develop.
Support capacity building and research for sustainable projects.
Trainer of Trainers programme.
Develop the capacity of existing cadre to build a stronger movement.
Long term capacity building methodologies for rural communities
Train people to articulate and present nees at their relevant level: local, community, organization.
Solve sustainable the problem of one community.
Enhance the capabilities of an entire “ecosystem” – schools, hospitals, public institutions, design through people’s participation.
Conduct communities needs’ analysis from a gender perspective.
Create equal opportunities between man and women to build strategic communities in ICTs.
Community based ICT design lab
Research for more effective community focused implementation.
Research / prove vital importance of Connectivity.
Get government action / policies.
Match donor assistance.