ICT Development in Lao PDR Expert Group Meeting on regional

ICT Development in Lao
PDR
Expert Group Meeting on regional
cooperation on information society in Asia
and the Pacific
Bangkok 20-22 July 2009
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Country Profile
ICT Statistics in 2006
National ICT Policy Framework
ICT Industry
e-Learning
Internet Infrastructure
e-Government
Future plans
Conclusion
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Country Profile
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Country name
: Lao PDR
Capital city
: Vientiane
Population
: 5.609 million
Total Area
: 236,800 Km2
GDP
: 678 USD
Religion
: Buddhism
Language
: Lao
Literacy
: 85%
Rural population
: 69 %
Currency
: Kip
More information please visit :
– Statistic : www.nsc.gov.la
– Economy : www.moc.gov.la
– Tourism : www.laotourism.org
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National ICT Policy
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The Government of the Lao PDR recognizes the Information and
Communication Technology as an increasingly crucial tool for achieving
socio-economic development, aims to bring the country into the information
age by increasing general access to ICT with the provision of modern
telecommunications infrastructure and computer networks; by fostering
enterprise and industry; promoting research and development in the fields
of ICT; and by developing the necessary human resources and institutional
capacies
It is with this recognition that the National Policy on ICT – aims to
ensure that the necessary institutional, human capacity, sectoral conditions,
and legal frameworks are in place for leveraging and applying ICT to meet
the challenges and needs of Lao PDR
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National ICT Policy
Nine priority areas :
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Infrastructure and Access
Enterprise and Industry
Research and Development
Applications
Human Resource Development
Legal Framework
Awareness
Poverty Alleviation
Standardization and Localization
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• 5 Telecom operators (ETL, LTC, Lao ASIA,
Millicom, Sky)
- No new licensed issued up to 2009
• 12 ISPs
• ETL :
- 3969 km fiber optic ;
- 400 mobile base station in 139 district;
- 450 intelligent network for prepaid system;
- 29000 PSTN
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Telecom Infrastructure
• Has fiber optic connection to China,
Thailand and
Vietnam
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Optic fiber backbone
Case of ISP infrastructure
• Planet online has its own network
infrastructure
• Has WIMAX hotspot in Vientiane and
some other cities
• Use ETL and SKY gateway to connect to
Internet backbone.
• Plan to invest 5 million USD to establish
wimax base stations in 4 cities
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Categories
Fix Lines
Mobile
CDMA /WLL
Total
Internet
- Dial up
- ADSL
- IP Star
- HIL
- Wireless
- Fiber
Total
Capacity lines
Using Lines
149,305
3,390,074
50,000
3,589,379
Capacity Lines
97,311
1,890,070
29,135
2,016,516
Using Lines
2,000
5,520
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8,470
Total telephone density per 100 Inhabitants : 36
Fix Telephone density per 100 Inhabitants : 2
Mobile Telephone density per 100 Inhabitants: 34
Digital Switching:
100 %
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Digital Transmission :
100%
Population in( 2005 est. ) :
5,609,000
7,343
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ICT Market in Laos
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Around 400 internet cafes in Vientiane, around 600 in nationwide
ICT-related business increased from 103 to 513 companies in 2005
In 2006, 196 new companies were registered, around more than
1000 in 2008
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ICT companies employ 3688 employees (1.1% of the total work
force
Hardware service 60 million USD
IT service 12 million USD
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Future ( in 5 years )
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Hardware service 120 million USD
IT Service 50 million USD
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e-Government Project
• Establish e-Gov. info-com infrastructure :
- IP backbone, 2.5 Gbps capacity connect
national e-Gov. center to tel. operator and
major ministries
- Fiber optic link to 50 ministries in
Vientiane and ADSL cable connection for
75 other gov. offices
- 10 WiMAX base stations cover 20 Km2
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e-Government Project
of Vientiane municipality and connecting to
250 Gov. offices
- Fiber optic link to 16 provincial
governor’s offices and 16 e-Gov provincial
centers
- One WiMAX base station in each
provincial capital city to connect to 10 Gov
offices in each province
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e-Government Project
• Seven e-Gov applications : e-archive, eregister, e-document, e-map, e-learning,
teleconference, national portal
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Standardization
• Standardize lao character set base on
unicode
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Telecenters
• NAST in collaboration of Ministry of Health
and ADB will soon set up 16 e-Health
Centers in two provinces
• NAST in collaboration with National
Informatic Center of India has set up 10
Rural Telecenters in 7 provinces
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Schoolnet
• The World Links Program has established
computer labs in 10 secondary schools
with internet access
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ICT-Related Education
• 1st Draft of ICT human resources master plan
For formal education:
- Establishing an Education Network as part of the NII
- Promoting e-learning
- Review and strengthening computer school curricular
- Computer training for school teacher
- Provision of school information infrastructure : telecom
network, computer facilities, basic educational software
and content, internet access
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ICT-Related Education
• For higher education :
- Establishing higher ICT Instituts
- Helping government agencies set up their
management information systems as well as agencyspecific sotware system
- Acquiring and producing educational software and
digital content
- Conducting research and development in ICT
application for distance learning
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ICT-Related Education
• For Non-Formal Education :
- Using ICT to upgrade workers, unemployed youth and
women
- e-Learning for lifelong learning
- Development of ICT professionals and re-training of
existing workforce in ICT
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ICT Reseach and Development
• Key outcomes of the PAN Localization Project
- Systematic study of the lao language structure
- Development of tools and utilities to enhance IT in Lao :
lao fonts, lao keyboard drivers, lao ASCII to Unicode
converters, lao line breaking utility, lao sorting utility,
laopad ( localize version of Note Pad), lao OCR……
The National University of Laos conduct various
research activities : metrological characteristics and
communication reception in Laos, Design of the
transmission line simulator, pattern recognition
approach to segmentation with application to continuous
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ICT Reseach and Development
• lao recognition, online freestyle handwritten lao
character recognition using future tree, QoS-based
routing algorithm with crank-back ability, relationship
between broadcasting signals and rain characteristics in
Laos
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challenge and Need
• Limited Development of IT Skills and Human
resources
• Limitation in terms of Finance
• Development of legal infrastructure for ICT
development platform
• Data Standardization
• Establish Certification Authority (CA), mutual
recognition within ASEAN and another countries
• Establish Software Park (Software Industry)
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the opportunities
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Full government support for ICT
Integration within ASEAN and to the WTO
Large young and growing population
Adequate Natural resources
Strategic location in the Heart of ASEAN and China
Opening up of financial sector
New Stock Exchange coming up in 2010
Lots of opportunities for long-term investment
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Thanks You
Somlouay KITTIGNAVONG
Acting Director General
Department of Informatic
National Authority for Sience and Technology (NAST)
Tel : 856-21 263613; Fax : 856-21 213472; e-mail : [email protected]
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