Tunisia Project

1. IEEE Student Chapter Leaders have formed a team of 8, most in Tunisia, recruited by Aris Ben Arfi, our Coordinator in Canada, 6 men, 2 women

2. Platform Project: Young Tunisians Coding Academy

3. 850 students have been taught to code, sponsored by US State Dept $21K

4. Scaling could vary by region, and each country could be different

Discussion:

1. Connectivity Council – to operationalize, network of networks

• Monthly – tangible recommendations

• Who? Engage people, drive conversations

• Build data about what we are doing

• Architecture for Interaction - understand what is happening and support them

1. Tangible results –Hands-on– get people who have done it to be involved

2. Set milestones of what we will achieve by October

3. Impact: What can the internet sustainably enable? How to activate it? How to do in-country impact?

4. Lessons from OLTP -  Build on the institutional knowledge, prepare for surprises, had journal of activity – kids learned very rapidly – geniuses everywhere, kids will teach other kids. Enablement of social outcomes – each community will have their own view

5. Project Management - Project Plan for Tunisia, constructs always with the best interest of the people we intend to serve

6. Resources –Plan for scaling from Tunisia, lay groundwork for global expansion

7. Market Opportunities – information & knowledge products, connecting buyers, sellers

8. Tracking (MIT Poverty Lab – evidence based data) – transparent, reasonable business opportunities, do it fast, transparent, openness…. Rule – what works, not consensus

9. Note: New Zealand technical college built a database about impact related projects

10. GIIN  - Global Impact Investing Network – have database called SoCap

11. IEEE has a good platform for supporting these types of things. - As we map out concrete things – we can see what programs and platforms could support Tunisia and global

    1. Education, Standards, Publications, Networks.

    2. Community is strong – with global reach and depth.

    3. Have policies, procedures and tools to enable. For Standards development 75% of 75% super majority – systems we can leverage:

    4. Societies are mini businesses – have to generate revenue – do conferences, conference proceedings IEEE electronic library – charge registration fees for conference.  One specifically stands out: Social Implications of Technology cross cuts other societies – could be leveraged to create synergy across societies. There is a life-sciences initiative, eHealth

    5. ISTO  - industry standards technology organization Standards Operating Units – finance themselves from revenues licensing the Intellectual Property of standards – seek model for making it free. Standards coordinating committee – so all voices can be heard and join forces

    6. Industry – Connections –define a problem, create a safe harbor environment – put competitors in a room and its ok. Ethics sits under Industry Connections

    7. Future Directions – smart cities, big data, - cybersecurity – how to pull right pieces and connect to this initiative

    8. Want environment to create workgroups to contribute offline and online

Action Items:

1. Find Champions in the World Bank

2. Operationalize MDB’s commitment to double public and private funding by 2020

3. Use October Event and GES (June Silicon Valley) to begin pivot to setting up investment projects to achieve economic and social outcomes at the population level (Customer Lifetime Value tools could be applied to Citizen or Community Member Lifetime Value)

4. Create a model for ‘this is why you should do this” vs Telco’s “revenue per user” ROI with data collection should be used to give the banks comfort that what they are doing will have a positive outcome

5. We have to go thru this loop with EBRD and World Bank

6. Get Tunisian team to sign up to collect the data and assuring the efficacy of their efforts

7. Define what would success look like – community building, capacity building – beyond connected schools

8. Pathway of progress with metrics at each step to develop Producers not Consumers

   1. Start with schools connected

   2. Functional literacy in entry and professional language

   3. Creation of apps and native content

   4. Business skills, entrepreneurship

   5. Achieving outcomes – eg health, education

9. Set up regional working groups – IEEE, Banks. Ask for countries to volunteer to lead

10. Define pipeline of countries who want to enter this process

    1. Tunisia

    2. India

    3. Myanmar

    4. Afghanistan, India

    5. re-surface countries coming to ask for help

Mei lin – set up meeting for Manu to check with John Mitchell at Stanford)

October

• More gov officials

• More ICT officials

• Focus on World Café – more comprehensive report out

• Briefing for table captains

• Recommend 1.5 days

Manu – shoot for 200 people

Gary – shoot for ½ day with homework for next full day

No host dinner afterwards

July 28th – Connectivity Council, Banks – consultation for October approval

Banks – think about projects this way – Social Impact Bonds – SF Federal Reserve

Manu – MDB’s and IMF have pledged $400B to achieving SDG’s by 2018 – targeted toward Infratructure.

But ICT’s receive only 1%

Measuring the achievement of the SDG’s – Banks don’t know how to

Invite Melanie Walker – World Bank

1. Project Plan for Tunisia

2. India – April 13-like event – in September – set up framework – Get TiE involved July 28 – World Bank

Saudi as hub

Singapore as a hub

Are we resourced to do this?

John – how do we get this going?

Resources ?

Karen – private public partnerships – industry has motivation – ROI for them

Gary – Industry – membership models for access to information, movement for they can justify

Karen – Industry connections program could be used for that

Membership fee

Gary – PCIC – industry and project initiatives – who are the early movers?

US Broadband coalition – got smaller players to jump first

Foundations – Omidyar –

Mei lin   - broker, appraisals

Manu – Transition to Secretariat from State Dept – more international to encourage more transparency – eCitizen engagement. If there is Industry appetite

Gary - Need a plan for July 28th to get funding in place.

Get a thesis for funding – will talk to Omidyar and others to determine where the heat is

Will schedule a call after Manu’s meeting with Omidyar

Manu – people are asking – what do you want? Having a common script

Many govs have published their broadband plans

Middleman role is exciting and thrilling and terrifying

We need to be clear about the resources we need

Where we can get organizations involved with Tunisia plan

Need engagement on Tunisian side –

Christopher – we have a lot of branches in Tunisia – most societies are pretty well represented – CS, engineering,

Suhas – do a

Karen – Sections congress every 3 years – 2017

Christopher – we could use this to rally and replicate to other countries

Our chapters are owned by Members and Geographic affairs – some are very active.

Spin outs are not consistent – usually revolves around 1 or 2 key people.

We can find local people.

Karen – for October event – need to build list of attendees – want to manage it better this time –

Contacts and Connections – build that list now.

Organizations – who is key player?

Identify Gaps – put in place advisory groups and council

Suhas – Aprli 13 – we have good ideas – anyone can take that idea and these key people were there.  Anyone can go and take that as a driver for any of those ideas