Results
of the first phase of project SCAN-ICT in Senegal
The Scan-Tic Project in Senegal was implemented
by a team known under the name of: «l’Observatoire
sur les systèmes d’information, les
réseaux et les inforoutes au Sénégal
(OSIRIS)». The process started with the organization
of a meeting for the national fascinating parts
in July 2001. The indicators which the participants
adopted included/understood the questions of infrastructure,
national strategic planning and the sectoral applications
such as the governorship, the society of information
and the economy of information.
The data were gathered by using
secondary sources (theoretical research starting
from the studies, reports, publications
and Web, etc.) and of the primary sources (such
as questionnaires intended for the various companies
of the public sector, the agents of execution of
the projects, the private sector, the users of
the ICT, etc).
The methodology of the Scan-ICT
Project contained indicators which were thoroughly
defined and which could restore the desired results.
By way of example, an indicator such as "the
number of telephones per home" is better
than "the number of telephone per inhabitant" insofar
as the first gives a more realistic image of the
penetration of the telephone in each household.
In the same way, results obtained starting from
indicators such as "the number of users of
Internet or subscribers with Internet" can
give a false image, insofar as the computers and
the access to theICT are generally centralized
in the Community centers, cybercafe
. The report
underlines the need for a continuous evaluation
of the effectiveness of the indicators.
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