Potential for ICT and Innovation in Finnish Development Policy
A seminar on the final reports of the ICT and Development research projects carried out by VTT and Ramboll Management Consulting.
Invitation to
seminar:
Potential of ICT and
Innovation in Finnish Development Policy
A seminar on the
final reports of the ICT and Development research projects carried out by VTT
and Ramboll Management Consulting
6 June 2012, Ministry
for Foreign Affairs of Finland
The Unit for
Development Policy in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland has
commissioned two ICT- and development-related research projects in 2011–2012.
Pro-poor social and economic opportunities in the
African ICT
innovation ecosystem. Perspectives and case study of Iringa, Tanzania, carried
out by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, explores the opportunities of
"mobile revolution” in Africa and develops forward-looking practices focusing
on rural and urban poverty in developing countries. An analysis of the drivers
for emerging sectoral innovation systems in developing economies: cases
Tanzania and Vietnam, by Ramboll Management Consulting, examines the key
drivers for the development of innovation systems at sectoral level in the
developing economies. The studies give policy recommendations for the Ministry
and for other policy-makers and NGOs.
Seminar Programme:
9.00–9.30 Coffee
Opening words by JYRKI PULKKINEN, Senior Adviser on Information Society for
Development, MFA Finland
9.30–10.30
Presentation of the research project "Pro-poor social and economic
opportunities in the African ICT innovation ecosystem. Perspectives and case
study of Iringa, Tanzania” by HANNES TOIVANEN, VTT Technical Research Centre of
Finland, and EDWARD MUTAFUNGWA, Aalto University
Discussion
10.30–11.30
Presentation of the research project "An analysis of the drivers for emerging
sectoral innovation systems in developing economies: cases Tanzania and
Vietnam” by KALLE PIIRAINEN, Ramboll Management Consulting and the IDBM-field
team Discussion
You are warmly
welcome to attend the seminar in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs on 6 June
2012 from 9.00 to 11.30. The language of the seminar is English.
Address: Laivastokatu
22, building A, ‘Ritarikatusali’
Registration:
Laivastokatu 22, door A1
Please confirm your
participation by 1 June 2012 to if.nimrof@nenipprak.elennah.
Inquiries: if.nimrof@alakkrun.ajlis, tel. +358
40 835 9364
