Net4Dev

Consultancies

Since 2004 Net4Dev has completed a number of consultancies for various clients. These assignments range from policy advise and strategy formulation to capacity development and monitoring. Some of the reports from these assignments are publicly available (selection listed here).

Completed assignments

Assignment: Evaluation of ICT in Teachers Training Colleges (Tanzania)

Client: Indevelop and Sida/Embassy of Sweden Dar es Salaam

Timeframe:: January-April 2014

Report: Evaluation of Implementation of ICT in Teachers’ Colleges Project in Tanzania - Final Report (2014)

Assignment: Capacity Development for Coordination and Integration of ICT in Education

Client: Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MoEVT), Tanzania

Timeframe: April 2007-December 2008

Report: ICT Policy for Basic Education (2007)

Assignment: Mapping and Planning of ICT Capacity Development at

Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MoEVT), Tanzania

Clients: MoEVT and Sida/Embassy of Sweden Dar es Salaam

Timeframe: June-December 2006

Report: Internal reports

Assignment: ICT Capacity Development and Strategic Plan for

Bagamoyo College of Arts (BCA)

Clients: BCA and Sida/Embassy of Sweden Dar es Salaam

Timeframe: February-August 2006

Report: ICT User Study at Bagamoyo College of Arts (2006)

Assignment: Advisory Assistance for WSIS Tunis/ICT 4 All Exhibition

Clients: ICT for Development Secretariat, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), Stockholm; Swedish Programme for ICT in Developing Regions (SPIDER); Stockholm Challenge Award; Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology (COSTECH)

Timeframe: July-November 2005

Report: “The Impact of WSIS on Tanzania’s ICT4D Landscape”, in Beyond Tunis: Flightplan. Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP). 2006

Assignment: Monitoring ICT Project at Bagamoyo College of Arts (BCA), Tanzania

Clients: BCA and Sida/Embassy of Sweden Dar es Salaam

Timeframe: December 2004-December 2005

Reports: a) ICT Project at BCA: Interim Progress Report for Phase 2 (2005), Bagamoyo College of Arts and Sida/Embassy of Sweden Dar es Salaam, December 2005.

b) ICT Project at BCA: Progress Report for Phase 1 (2004), Bagamoyo College of Arts and Sida/Embassy of Sweden Dar es Salaam, February 2005.

Assignment: Mainstreaming ICT for Development in Swedish Development Cooperation

Client: ICT for Development Secretariat, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), Stockholm

Timeframe: August 2004-May 2005

Report: Internal reports

*Assignment: Review of Formulation and Implementation of National ICTD Strategies

Client: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), New York

Timeframe: June-December 2004

Report: National Development in the Global Information Society: A Review of National ICTD Strategies, UNDP, New York, December 2004

*Assignment: Feasibility Study and ICT Strategy for Bagamoyo College of Arts, Tanzania

Clients: BCA and Sida/Embassy of Sweden Dar es Salaam

Timeframe: March-May 2004

Report: Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Strategy for Bagamoyo College of Arts, Bagamoyo College of Arts/Embassy of Sweden in Tanzania, May 2004

* Assignment: ICT4D Platform at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS,

Geneva 9-13 December 2003

Client: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Bern

Timeframe: August 2003-April 2004

Report: ICT4D-Connecting People for a Better World. Lessons, Innovations and Perspectives of Information and Communication Technologies in Development, Weigel G. and D. Waldburger (eds), published by SDC and GKP, 2004

* Assignment: ICT Strategy for Democracy and Social Development, Sida/DESO

Client: Department for Democracy and Social Development (DESO), Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), Stockholm

Timeframe: June 2002-December 2003

Reports: a) Digital Empowerment-A Strategy for ICT for Development (ICT4D) for DESO. Stockholm: Sida/DESO, December 2003

b) Digital Empowerment-Guidelines to the DESO Strategy for ICT for Development (ICT4D). Stockholm: Sida/DESO, December 2003

* Assignments carried out by Paula Uimonen prior to the establishment of Net4Dev