ICT 4 Trade: Game-changing Case Studies

ICT 4 TRADEGame-changing Case Studies

Presentation done at BitMagic, iHub Nairobi, by Athman Mohamed30th April 2011

CONSIDER THIS…

21Truck roundtripMsa - Kampala $1Bn+ Transit Bonds in force/day

In COMESA

$1500/daySavings on transport costs for every day saved by truck on the road

850No. of trucks leaving Msa for Kampalaand Kigali every day.

45%Percentage of transport costs of cost of goods in landlocked countries

1% 2%Reduction in transport costs

Increase in trade

65%-70%200%

Productivity of Mombasa PortCongestion in Container Terminal

47 30008000 28%

No. of stops

Trucks stoppedWorking women

Percentage ofstops with VCT

Mombasa to Kampala

65% Percentage of a country’srevenue in the EAC from RevenueAuthorities.

POSSIBILITIES WITH THAT KIND OF DATA…

Identify bottlenecks in the logistics chain? Collect data, analyze cost points on logistic chains? Use analyzed data to come up with policy changes? Use data to increase efficiencies / productivity? Use data to make East Africa competitive? Use data to bring down the cost of goods? Poverty

eradication perhaps?

CASE STUDY: RADDEx

Exchange customs declarations between RAs. Border processing time from 2-3 days to hours. Reduced fraud,

Revenue collection increased, GDP increased. 1 day saved = $1500 saved. Multiply by 1300 declarations made/day. Implemented in 6 countries and growing. More information: www.ictcorridor.com, www.competeafrica.org

CASE STUDY: ECTS

Electronic GPS Seals to track Transit Cargo. Potential to remove escorts, faster truck turn-around. Reduced fraud,

Revenue collection increased, GDP increased. 1 day saved = $1500 saved. Multiply by 850 transit trucks/day. Kenya implementing. Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Burundi in tender. More information: KRA, URA, RRA, OBR and TRA websites.

CASE STUDY: ELECTRONIC SINGLE WINDOW

Information Portals and online licensing. Customs declarations submissions.

Reduce time for trader input. Synchronized data collection and use by government agencies. More productivity, more efficiency.

1 day saved = $1500 saved. Multiply by 1300 declarations made/day. More information: www.trademarkea.com,

[email protected]

CASE STUDY: INTEGRATED BORDER MANAGEMENT AND ONE-STOP BORDER POSTS

Infrastructure-based, ICT networks at borders to access Electronic Single Windows.

Advance cargo information. Data exchange, more productivity, more efficiency, less time spent at borders.

1 day saved = $1500 saved. Multiply by 300 transit trucks cleared/day.

More information: [email protected]

CASE STUDY: ALTERNATIVE SYSTEM TO SECURE TRANSIT (ASSET SCHEME)

Connect E-banking to Revenue Authorities Systems. Collect duty upfront, remove need for transit bond.

Advance cargo information. Data exchange, no more bonds. In the EAC, potentially $300M/day saved. In COMESA, $1Bn+ /day saved.

More information: [email protected]

CASE STUDY: TRANSPORT OBSERVATORIES

Collect data from revenue authorities and ports. Connect it using unique fields. Analyze as input to policy makers.

Identifies bottlenecks. Identifies cost centers. Identifies NTBs. Tool for policy makers to make policies. Tool for policy makers

to check if policies are working. More information: [email protected]

CASE STUDY: MULIKA MWIZI

Use the Ushahidi platform as an NTB reporting tool. If forced to bribe, one texts details to platform. If stopped by a road block, one texts details to the platform. If frustrated by customs…

Identifies bottlenecks. Identifies corruption cost centers. Identifies NTBs. Tool for policy makers to make policies. Tool for policy makers to check if

policies are working. Tools for policing. More information: [email protected]

CONSIDERATIONS…

Ideas and concepts are simple. Impact is huge. Implementation relatively “trivial”. Problem solved is usually complex. Fantastic ROIs. Endless possibilities just from paying attention to data. So…

ICT 4 Health? ICT 4 Education? ICT 4 Gender? ICT 4 EAC Customs Union? ICT 4 Regional Integration, perhaps???

TradeMark East Africa is in the early stages of setting up an Innovation fund on ICT 4 Regional Integration. This will be

announced by late 2011, keep an eye out!

For Further Information, Contact

Athman Mohamed, [email protected]

www.trademarkea.com

Thanking you for your kind attention.

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