Enabling Affordability, Driving Development

Advisory Council Meeting

January 16, 2014

Agenda

11:00   Welcome (Sonia Jorge)   11:05   Update on Activities

–  Research –  Communications –  Country engagement –  International advocacy

11:45   Membership Update

–  Current status –  Website and Newsletter –  Member commitments –  Members’ support for in-country engagements (venues, participation, etc.) –  Member survey (M&E tool)

  12:15 Management Update

–  Monitoring and Evaluation Plan (implementation starting) –  Fundraising plans in 2014 (need additional resources for in-country engagement work)

12:45 Next meeting and Closing

–  F2F meeting in Egypt (ITU Telecom Development Conference)

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Welcome Dr. Bitange Ndemo, Honorary Chairperson Private Sector: Jennifer Haroon, Principal, Strategy and Operations, Google

Robert Pepper, VP Global Technology Policy, Cisco Peter Pitsch, Associate General Counsel and Executive Director of Communications Policy, Intel Barbara Baffer, VP Corporate Affairs and Communications, Ericsson   Public Sector and Academia: Priya Jaisinghani, Director of Mobile Solutions, USAID (Deputy: Jonathan Dolan)

Nicki Goh, Private Sector Advisor, DFID Tim Unwin, Secretary General, CTO Sadie Okoko, Director for African Affairs, Office of International Communications and Information Policy, State Department (non-voting, observer role)   Civil Society Organizations and Foundations: Ory Okolloh, Director of Investment, Omidyar Network Sascha Meinrath, Director, NAF’s Open Technology Institute (Deputy: Gene Kilmmelman) Sophia Huyer, Executive Director, WISAT

Robert Cronin, Vice President, IREX

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UPDATE ON ACTIVITIES

Research Update

•  The Affordability Report was launched on December 8, 2013 in Cape Town.

•  Report was well received and the conference provided a platform for useful discussions around research methods, key findings and strengthening collaboration among A4AI members and partners.

•  Process and timing were challenging but allowed team to identify areas for improvement at all levels.

•  Index webpage close to be finalized and will include the complete data set, Index results, structure, etc.

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Research Update 2014 Plans •  Affordability Index and Report:

–  streamline and improve research process and methods (narrower index? Separate secondary data from primary data? Control for timing and sequence of reforms?)

–  increase in-house research capacity; –  longer timeline for research, analysis, review and writing; –  collaboration and advice from member WG and partners.

•  Case studies:

–  to be published every quarter; –  priority on countries of interest for engagement or countries with best practices or

experiences to highlight (Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Mozambique, Cameroon, Brazil, Peru, Indonesia, India, Philippines).

•  Briefings, thematic papers:

–  start discussion of selected issues with membership (e.g., innovative uses of spectrum, USF, open access policies) and prepare briefings/papers on those topics.

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Communications Update

Website Statistics Update

•  Since launch: 11,300 unique users, 39,100 page views. 

•  US, UK, India, France,  South Africa, Japan, Canada, Nigeria, Brazil, Sweden the 10 countries sending the most users. 

•  October (launch) busiest month for web traffic. •  Upward trend thereafter:

–  November = 1,300 users –  December = 1,400 users (concentrated in first 2 weeks)

•  Over 500 people have visited the launch page for the Affordability Report. 

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Communications Update

Social Media

•  Launch of Affordability Report widely disseminated on Twitter. 

•  Tweetreach estimates for three hour period on launch day: –  @a4a_internet reached 80,000 accounts, with

167,000 impressions. –  #affordableinternet reached 74,000 accounts ,over

100k impressions –  Our posts on Facebook regarding the Affordability

Report launch reached c. 700 users.  8

Communications Update

Media Relations

•  Affordability Report launch: focus on emerging and developing countries, feature pieces. 

•  Over 30 detailed hits in print and online, plus one widely syndicated piece on an Asian Newswire reproduced hundreds of times.  

•  Two key types of coverage: (a) a focus on a specific country and (b) general overview of report. 

•  Most coverage closely on message.  •  Key hits: BBC Hausa (Nigeria), Times of

India (India, Global), Malay Mail Online (Malaysia), Biztech Africa (Pan African), Business Report (South Africa). 

•  Now seeing additional glancing mentions of report, and receiving alerts that report is being added to academic databases. 

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Communications 2014 •  Looking ahead…

•  Global: –  Focus on features, op-ed’s in intl. media built

around case studies & position papers, planned features

–  Build social media presence and profile further

–  Develop more AV collateral

•  Target Countries: –  Build close relationships with influencing

media – news and feature blend –  Engage local social media influencer

•  Empower and leverage members –  Communications Toolkit shared with all

members Comms teams –  Engage with members for feature pieces on

owned channels

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Country Engagement Update

•  1st. A4AI Ghana Multi-stakeholder Coalition Forum is confirmed for February 11th in Accra. Concept note and draft agenda shared with Minister. Planning for 50 participants. Policy manager currently in Ghana conducting interviews/discussions with key stakeholders.

•  Waiting confirmation for Nigeria Forum. Collaborating with Ministry’s team assigned to A4AI. Shared concept note, draft agenda, stakeholder map.

•  Still waiting for Uganda and Mozambique to sign MOU. Delays due to internal discussions, holidays and politics.

•  Discussions started with Indonesia, India, Peru. AC members and others can support this process. We will reach out soon!

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International Advocacy and Representation •  Mobile World Congress (February)

–  Dr. Ndemo to be a speaker at the Government Mobile Forum at the Ministerial Program

–  Sonia to moderate Governmental Roundtable sponsored by Alcatel Lucent (Toward a hyper-connected society_ The challenges ahead)

–  Sonia to be a panelist at the GSMA mWomen program

•  Indonesia Open Government Partnership Regional event; session on digital divide (March)

•  Pakistan ICTD event (March)?

•  ITU World Telecom Development Conference (April)

•  UN-CSTD Ministerial Meeting (May)

•  ITU GSR (June 3-5, Bahrain)

•  Suggestions for key events we should prioritize?

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MEMBERSHIP UPDATE

Current status

•  15 new members and 5 local partners joined in

Q4 of 2103 •  Membership now totals 51 orgs.

•  Over 40 applications for membership submitted since launch

•  GSMA coming on board! Press release to be

issued Friday.

Website and Newsletter •  To improve the entire membership visibility,

we are implementing a slider/carrousel with members’ logos on each page but the home page.

•  Newsletter: published monthly since

November. Provides concise summary of activities, upcoming plans and events, member feature, etc.

•  Feedback?

Commitments Beyond Membership

•  Firm commitments (e.g., % of investment to serve poor populations) vs. other types of support

•  Examples: –  Better Than Cash Alliance –  Global Fund to Fight Aids

•  How to hold members accountable for

commitments?

Member engagement and support

•  Participation in national forums

•  Identifying possible event venues

•  Suggest potential speakers/experts (specially from the country)

•  Identifying stakeholders and potential partners

Upcoming Member Survey

•  Member survey is part of A4AI’S Monitoring and Evaluation efforts to measure how well we are doing on membership engagement and how we can improve

•  Would like to pilot survey with AC members:

are you available to do so and provide feedback? Please confirm.

MANAGEMENT UPDATE

Monitoring and Evaluation Plan

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Completed in Q4 2013 and implementation started

Objectives

•  Monitor, assess and report on the delivery of programme interventions against their intended objectives and outputs

•  Evaluate progress toward the intended outcomes and strategic objective of the programme

•  Review assumptions about change

•  Understand the intended and unintended results of the programme interventions

•  Ensure that the programme is learning and improving throughout to increase efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability of the interventions.

•  Provide the programme and its stakeholders with an evidence base for decision making

Monitoring and Evaluation System

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Periodic Review and Assessment Reporting and lesson learning

•  Reports from national and regional coordinators

•  Alliance team programme activity monitoring

•  Logframe and activity level indicator data

•  Semi-Annual Review

•  Annual member survey and member feedback

•  Country visits

•  Most Significant Change technique

•  Periodic Evaluation activities

•  Reports to funders and members

•  Team and Alliance/coalition member meetings

•  Presentation at national, regional and international events

•  Dissemination through Alliance website, newsletters, media and social media

Indicators: •  Logframe indicators •  Activity level indicators •  National workplan indicators

On-going monitoring and assessment

Fundraising Plans for 2014

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•  Renew and increase commitments from global sponsors and members in 2014

•  Proposals for new support: SIDA, DFID country offices, Foundations

•  Increase membership and contributions

•  Focus on increasing budget for in-country engagement work and related activities, including in-depth national research and knowledge sharing events

NEXT MEETING AND CLOSING

AC Face to Face Meeting

•  Proposed event: ITU Telecom Development Conference

•  Date: March 30-April 10 •  Location: Dubai?

•  CLOSING

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