Results
of the first phase of project SCAN-ICT in
Morocco
The study of Scan-ICT was undertaken
by a team of the Project which was made up of employees,
consultants and researchers of the company «Informatique,
technologies de l’information et géomatique» (ITIGO).
The report of Scan-ICT describes the implementation,
the institutional framework installed as well as
the technology which was used. Data were collected
on the infrastructure, strategic planning and the
reinforcement of capacities. The study primarily
related to the penetration of the TIC in the public
administration, education, health, industries,
natural ressources and earth management, as well
as the economy of information. Primary and secondary
sources were used to produce data and information
from 1995 to 2002.
Within sight of the results of
the study, a national network of Scan-ICT was
set up, the objective being to entrust to the national
institutions the responsibility of data-gathering.
It was estimated that, that would avoid double
employment and would facilitate continues
actualization of national
profile of Scan-ICT. The team of the project also
took part in various national meetings, workshops
and conferences during which it collected information
by the means of direct interviews. The methodology
and the framework of Scan-ICT were integrated in
the work of the institutions and participating
organizations.
The methodology used for the data-gathering
was multiform: sending by mail of questionnaires,
direct interviews, electronic correspondence, inserts
in the newspapers and radio broadcasts. The study
revealed that the direct interviews were more profitable
than the answers obtained by other means.
The following observations were
formulated:
- The framework of the cooperation
bewteen african countries set up for the Scan-ICT
project was an effective platform for the experiment
and
data
exchange between the participating institutions.
This practice must be reinforced and widened
to include more institutions;
- The institutional and
structural mechanisms created for the
study of Scan-ICT helped to overcome the difficulties
encountered in general
in the collection and the processing data;
- The use of a methodology
and a standardized framework facilitates the
cooperation of the national institutions in the
network;
- An independent national structure,
equipped with suitablehuman and financial
resources, is necessary to coordinate the analysis
of the
future data and the diffusion of the results
on the Web.
In the report, recommendations were made
to the ECA and the CRDI on:
Need for prolonging the pilot phase;
Need for including the socio-economic sectors
which were not envisaged in the pilot phase;
Importance to undertake studies in the fields
which were not approached in the pilot phase,
such as the use of the indicators of Scan-ICT.
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