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Results of the institutional ICTworkshops and
consequences for the sector ICT Master Plan
author: Eric Kluijfhout, [email protected]
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Results of the institutional ICTworkshops and
consequences for the sector ICT Master Plan
Dr Eric Kluijfhout
Towards an ICT Strategy for the Ethiopian Higher Education SectorAddis Ababa, 24-25 November 2009
Ministry of Education of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia&
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands
ICT plans: institutional- and sector-level
National social and economic policy
ICT policyHE policy
inform guide
ICT Policy Plan
ICT Master Plan
Project plan Project plan Project plan
HE Institution
ICT for Higher Education Sector Strategy
inform informguide guide
Institutional workshops
• Aim: Train staff to develop their own Institutional ICT Policy- and Master Plan
• Method:– Use exisiting (strategy) documents where possible: internal and
external– Lectures + assignments
• Outcomes at the end of the workshop:– Outline for Policy Plan– Plan how to compile ICT Policy Plan– Realistic aims for ICT Master Plan– Major threats to implementation identified
Workshop outcomes: similarities
• All seven institutions are at about the same overall ICT development stage – Early Expansion
• Emphasis on technical infrastructure, and less on knowledge development and ICT governance
• Very high ICT ambitions• Not always backed up by ‘past performance’• Top-3 challenges for effective and efficient ICT
implementation
Differences between universities
• Quantity and quality of ICT staff• Experience with (first) implementation of
administrative systems• Extent to which ICT was actively part of the
BPR process
ICT Policy for HE-sector
1. Introduction2. Trends in ICT for HE world-wide3. State of the art in Ethiopia4. Needs and possible strategies
– Applications– Technical infrastructure– Governance infrastructure– Knowledge infrastructure
5. Implementation issues
What’s next?
• Prioritise sector-level ICT issues (today)• Propose a sector-level organisational model
for implementation (tomorrow)• Finalise Policy document: add priorities
(Thursday)• Draft sector-level Master Plan v. 0.1 (Thursday
+ Friday)• ................
My personal favourites for sector-level cooperation
• Expert community on campus networking• Investigate viable open source options • Realistic ICT strategy planning for new
universities• Share best practices in Technology Enhanced
Learning• Repository of Open Educational Resources• Seed money for inter-university ICT projects
ICT development stages
Awareness/Adoption Expansion Consolidation Integration Innovation
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The five major aspects of ICT
Three infrastructure pillars
Applications
Work processes
Tech
nica
l in
fras
truc
ture
Know
ledg
e in
fras
truc
ture
Gov
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Technical
Knowledge
Governance
ICT development stages
Awareness/Adoption Expansion Consolidation Integration Innovation
costs
timeI
II
III
IVV
The five major aspects of ICT
Tech
nica
l in
fras
truc
ture
Know
ledg
e in
fras
truc
ture
Gov
erna
nce
infr
astr
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re
ICT infrastructure platform
HRM
mailSIS
LIS
FIS
ICT Applications platform
