Committed to Connecting the World

An opportunity for

global development

and Businesses

ICT Apps

Committed to Connecting the World

Education

Governance

Financial services

Health

Energy

Agriculture

Cross-sectors

Capacity Development

Training

Toolkits development

Innovations

Innovation Hubs

Design for SDG

Industry engagement

Upscaling

Projects

Partnerships

Project

Implementation

Evaluation

Policy Review

Readiness

assessments

Knowledge Sharing

& Advocacy

ICT4D Best Practices

Global/Regional

events

E-Strategy

Development

ICT AppsMembership

assistance

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05

04

03

Toolkits development

Country Assistance

eHealth

eAgriculture

eLearning

KPI1. Improved country capacity for the planning of

national sectoral e-strategies

KPI2. Improved country capacity to leverage ICT/mobile applications to improve the delivery of value-added services

KPI3. Enhanced Innovation, knowledge and skills of national institutions to use ICT for development

Country assistance eHealth Strategies

Be He@lthyBe Mobile

Build capacities in Africa and Arab

Region

mHealth Innovation Hub

3.2 ICT Applications – actual and planned Activities

ICT4SDGCross-cutting

Smart Healthy

Cities

Digital HealthPlatform

toolkit

Global/Regionalevents

Q2/2 eHealth

Global/Regional events

Country assistance eAgriculture

Strategies

eAgricultureInnovation

Hub

Policy ReviewsCountry assistance

Smart Learning Strategies

Global/Regional events

EnergyGlobal/

Regional events

SDG needs Landscaping Gap analysis

ICT industry engagement to catalyze

digital innovations

for SDG

Upscaling potential

game changing

innovations

Q1/2 Smart Society

Regional Initiative on Smart Learning

Country assistance Energy e-strategies

Regional Initiative

Regional Initiative on Smart

Agriculture

Committed to Connecting the World

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ITU-WHO “Be He@lthy Be Mobile” Initiative

Joint work plan to use mobile technologies to address the Non-

Communicable Diseases (NCDs) burden through scalable mHealth solutions

The initiative targets 8 countries in 4 years in the area of prevention,

treatment and policy enforcement.

Already implemented national mHealth programmes:

Senegal, Egypt for Diabetes Prevention and Control

Zambia for Cervical Cancer screening

Costa Rica, India, Philippines and Tunisia for Smoking

Cessation

Norway for COPD

The initiative aims at:

Address NCDs and their risk factors

Enhance country capacities to develop and employ mobile technologies

and communications channels

Create country level platforms and environment for partnership

Design mHealth for NCD intervention projects

Strengthen capacity of local stakeholders for optimal and efficient use of

available resources

Validate use of mobile NCD projects

Activities on mHealth

Partnerships: cross-sectoral model

THE PROGRAM IS UNIQUE IN THAT IT ADOPTS A MULTI-SECTOR PARTNERSHIP

STRUCTURE AND ENGAGES IN COUNTRY PARTNERS AND GOVERNMENTS TO

MAXIMIZE SUCCESS.

Telecoms, Insurance ,

Pharma, Wellness, IT, Sporting

Industry, Other Private Sector

Government

NGOs , Civil Society

Philanthropies

Academia

UN

• Best Practices

• Content

• Deployment strategy

• M&E

• Best Practices

• Content

• Technology

• Deployment strategy

• Policies

• M&E

• Best Practices

• Content

• Technology

• Deployment strategy

• Policies

• M&E

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• Best Practices

• Content

• Technology

• Deployment strategy

• M&E

EU-ITU-WHO mHealth Knowledge & Innovation Hub

7

Scale-up mHealth success

Access to WHO/ITU/EC accredited content

Facilitate innovation

Thought leadership

OBJECTIVE OF HUB

WHO-ITU & EC support in setup

Core full-time team dedicated to:

– project management

– technology/IT

– partnership and communications

– monitoring and evaluation

– administrative/financial support

– Operational research

STRUCTURE

Identify standards,

regulatory and

policy gaps

Train and educate Implementation support

and consulting

KNOWLEDGE & INNOVATION HUBCore Functions

Operational

research

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Facilitating national eHealth planning

The ITU-WHO National eHealth Strategy Toolkit (2012)

presents a methodology and set of resources to guide country

decision makers to develop their national eHealth strategy and

roadmap.

Several countries have already used the toolkit to

develop/update/review their eHealth national strategy.

ITU-WHO Publications on eHealth

http://www.itu.int/pub/D-STR-E_HEALTH.05-2012

https://www.itu.int/pub/D-STR-E_AGRICULT.01-2016

http://www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/24f624ea-7891-45e8-9b24-66cbf13f004d/

The e-Agriculture Strategy

Guide

Available at:

MOBILE LEARNIG

ITU-UNESCO Mobile Learning Policy Forum, 11 March 2016• First time High-Level dialog between Education and ICT Ministers

• 7 ICT Ministers/Deputy Minister and 7 Education Ministers/Deputy Ministers participated

• Co-published with UNESCO a Policy Note on Mobile Learning http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/themes/icts/m4ed/mobile-learning-week/policy-note

• Agreed on collaborating in conducting joint country Policy Review on Mobile Learning and to Organize a global joint Policy Forum between ICT and Education Ministers in 2017

ITU-UNESCO Smart Learning policy review?

• An independent evidence-based assessment of a national policy, leading to

• A set of forward-looking policy recommendations looking at the improvement of:

– Access

– Quality

– Effectiveness

– Equity

– Efficiency

• To help education authorities to strengthen their national mobile learning initiative and contribute to the development of their capacities

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ICT4SE Policy and Regulatory

Frameworks(RME)

ICT4SE Policy and Regulatory

Frameworks(RME)

Best Practices and implementation guidelines

(CYB)

Best Practices and implementation guidelines

(CYB)

In-country Implementation

In-country Pilot Project Design

In-country Pilot Project Design

In-country Monitoring and Evaluation

Country Readiness Assessment (TND)Country Readiness Assessment (TND)

Cybersecurity guidelines for ICT4SE

(CYB)

Cybersecurity guidelines for ICT4SE

(CYB)Global activities

In-country activitiesCountry Assistance

ICT for Sustainable Energy possible Approach