SAMENA Telecommunications Council’s CEO, Mr. Bocar BA, participated in the 4th meeting of the m-Powering Initiative Advisory Board, during which the final report of the m-Powering Development Advisory Board on m-Powering Development: turning opportunities into reality was approved for launch. The m-Powering Development Initiative, launched in 2012 by Mr. Brahima Sanou, Director of the ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau, to help create a resource and action plan to deploy ICT services, is designed to create a resource and an action plan to deploy ICT services, from m-Health, m-Learning, m-Governance to m-Commerce and m-Sport.
Mr. BA, in his role as chairman of Working Group on Partnerships, presented different types of partnership models generally, and related key success and risk factors, in particular in the context of harnessing ICTs for Development (ICT4D) services. To accelerate the creation of partnerships and maximise their chances of success, a high-level partnership framework and two model Memoranda of Understanding, together with user guidelines were developed by the Working Group as its key outputs. These Model MoUs are intended for use by public sector entities such as government agencies, ministries or regulators that want to partner with a mobile operator and/or a service provider to communicate with the public at large or with a select group of professionals. The MoUs can serve as a starting point for setting out the legal rights and obligations that will govern stakeholder relationships, provide a basis for further discussions among potential partners and help identify touch-points, responsibilities and structures on which multi-stakeholder (or multi-sector) partnerships (MSPs) can be built. Together the framework and memoranda represent a stepping stone to achieving successful partnerships.
The Working Group on Partnerships is a sub-group of the m-Powering Development Initiative Advisory Board tasked with developing partnerships to mobilize resources and support the implementation of the m- Powering action plan. The objective of the Working Group is to provide input to the work of the Advisory Board.
Source: SAMENA Press Release