The role of the ict on the expandind economic opportunity

Historical perspective

1980 (universal access)

Services that were provides: “post telephone and telegraph” Exensive and antrocious.

The develope of ict in the last 20 years.

Technological innovation in 20 years

Hardware

Software

Internet

Telephone

ICT reduce transaction costs and improve productivity

Offer immediate conectivity (eficiency)

Icrease choises in Marketplace information of all kinds.

Innovation of marketing

Two mecanisms of develope of markets

Low-income costumers: rock solid value preposition

Local ict Ecosystem: includes local equipment manufactures.

Creating inclusive business models

They can target local individual, household and SME markets for sales of technologies

and services

Opportunity for job development

Selling to local markets

We hace two essential and interlocking growth strategic in ICT sector.

Horizontal deepending

It's important adding new customer

Learning about the market

Cross-cutting consideration

-Learning about market

-All markets are different with respect to composition

Building institutions capacity

-E-goverment

-Economic opportunity-related civil society organization

Microsoft's partnerships for technologt access (PTA's)

-Public-private Partnerships designed to transform the hability of goverments to provide public servers.

Typical “PTA Offer

-Financing software

-Hardware

-Training

-Goverment Services

-Technology support

Cisco networking academies least-developed country initiative.

1997 The company made a donation of computers and networking equipment to a school near its corporate office.