Local governments, e-e business and knowledge management

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1 United Nations Economic and Social Commission For Asia and the Pacific Local governments, e-e business and knowledge management R. Alexander Roehrl 30 October 2003 For questions: roehrl.unescap 1

2 Contents United Nations ESCAP Some food for thought Project Brief WSIS Recommendations 2

3 United Nations ESCAP? Commission for Asia and the Pacific Regional office of the United Nations Secretariat Mandate to coordinate all regional UN activities Fosters socio-economic development through regional cooperation Initiated ADB, LOGOTRI, CITYNET, etc. Committee on Globalization (19-21 Nov. 2003) Commission Session (Shanghai, April 2004) Side-event on knowledge-based societies Asia-Pacific Regional Action Plan,Tokyo Declaration 3

4 Kim Hak-Su, UN Undersecretary General New High Priority Programme on Information, Communication and Space Technologies Applications and Policies E-business E-learning, etc. Knowledge economy Knowledge Networks International Policy and Coordination WSIS Interagency coordination UN ICT Task Force Space applications Remote sensing Disaster preparedness E-health IP-based comm. 4

5 How many online (Sept. 2002)? World (606 million, 10%) Asia-Pacific (187 million, 31%) Japan (56 million), China (46 million), South Korea (26 million) Europe (191 million) North America (183 million) Latin America (33 million) Source: NUA Internet Surveys 5

6 E-business orders of magnitude E-commerce transactions as % of total sales or revenues Narrow definition: Web Commerce, Internet Commerce Broadest e-commerce definition: world champion retail USA (<1.5%), business sector Sweden (13%) Websites per 1000 inhabitants (July 2002) Germany (85), USA (62), OECD (30), New Zealand (15), South Korea (11), Japan (3), etc. Languages of e-commerce (Aug. 2002) English (58%), German (11%), Japanese (10%), Spanish (5%), French (4%), Chinese (3%), Korean (1%), etc. 6

7 Solow`s IT productivity paradox Communications ICT Tools People, Institutions, Work Flows 7

8 From data to knowledge Knowledge is information in context to produce an actionable understanding. Intranet, Web, Graphs, etc. Databases, links lists, etc. People and Behaviour Knowledge Information Data 8

9 Project Brief Local governments, e-business, and knowledge networks CITYNET and United Nations ESCAP Intended Outcome: Good practises Local governments devise their own pro-poor e-business strategies Resource Facility Knowledge Network (multi-level collaboration) Dot-coms Semantic web c-commerce (collaborative commerce) 9

10 Project Logic Community does it scale? Local governments National Governments Small and mediumsized towns, cities and regions Knowledge-intensive economic centres (Bangalore etc.) Megacities Deep pockets E-business, services + knowledge management + collaboration = c-commerce Educated middle classes vs. low-income Intercity international knowledge networks 10

11 WSIS Recommendations Relevance? Include specific Asian issues to the declaration Concrete regional action plan Regionalize the WSIS localization Networks of networks rather than merging networks Regional ICT development funds to be managed directly by local governments Unbundle examinations from teaching on an international level Cooperation on all levels through open-source KN Time scales, systems and knowledge standards Youth as ICT advisors in local governments 11

12 Thank you R. Alexander Roehrl 12

13 Historical food for thought Network General purpose technology Killer Application 1920s Electricity Dynamo Mass manufacturing 2000s IP-based (Internet) ICTs Knowledge standards, service automization De-skilling of IT and Industrial Revolutions Labour costs no long-term competitive advantage 13

14 Project Activities Phasing of Project Implementation Activities A Activities B Case studies from resource cities/persons P h a s e 1 City teams bid for participation and provide status e-business reports Workshop to develop draft partnership strategies to promote e-business Collection of external "good practises" User training and pilot of knowledge network (open-source) Collaborative drafting of "lessons learnt" as input for a online selflearning facility (e-learning) Timeline P h a s e 2 Follow-up visits, stakeholder consultations and advisory services Refinement and implementation of strategies High-level wrap-up meeting Full-fledged regional resource facility and knowledge network 14