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Development of the IP-based Infrastructure & Services Ecosystem (2/2) : Scenarios & Roadmap for Planning Regional Workshop on ICT Indicators: from Policy & Strategy to Impact and Vice versa Sharm El. Sheik, Egypt, 8 -9 June 2012 Dr. Ahmed El. Hefnawy Senior Advisor for Arab States - ITU

SO WHAT ? • Excellent Presentations. • Can We Work on our Future not our Past? • Quick Assessment >> Road ahead. .

Strategic Planning Options (Case of IP/BB) • No Explicit Plans (Mostly) • Partial Plans (Some) • Scope • Methodology (with Objectives, KPIs, Goals & Targets leading to Initiatives) • Complete National Plans (Very Few) • Regional Plans (Limited and needs updated)

Reasons behind this limitation • Few have a dedicated strategic planning team. • Regional Diversity is quite clear in Market, Policy &Technology. • Regional Cooperation is Limited. (GCC is an exception).

What we concluded from benchmarking yesterday? Components Need Attention: • IXP • Content • Sites Registration • Fiber/Wifi/x. DSL • Support (e-Payment, search engines).

Our Strongest Asset Same Language of Over 300 Million People (A very rare situation, need to be utilized)

ICT Industry Main Players Operators Infrastructure ISP Content International Few Few Most Regional Few Few National (Gov) Most Rare National (Private) Few Some The Market is fragmented especially at the regional level. Limited policy coordination. No private company is located Pan Arab. This is detrimental especially in the content , where the language and culture is common and can make a big difference. Note the satellite channels. Most of the revenues goes to international companies from domain name registration to hosting to advertisements to transactions.

What we may do? • Do nothing differently? Continue what we are doing more or less. Stagnation>>Tsunami is coming. Advise: Ride the wave. • Develop our national capabilities. • Look at our assets and get a regional integration.

Proposed Ecosystem Conceptual Model Devices . Sub s r e Co s ce Connectivity Ho sts P r o d u c e r Register Sites (Users/ Producers) Re nn U ec it t m s an Users/ Producers ive Tr (HW & SW Suppliers) Content (ISPs, Cables, IXPs, Spectrum, Exchanges Sites (Registrars) Data Centers (Hosting) s

What we really have • • 350 + Millions Speak the same Language. So issue of Content is more feasible. A market of about 3 Trillion USD. Common Sectors: • Culture / Entertainment / Education • Health / Tourism

Main Steps to catch up…. • Do we move in weeks/months/years/decades/centuries? Implementations Discussions Propositions

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