An ICT-application study in Dominican Republic
(2010) MIO920Production Management
- Abstract
- Background: Welfare projects using applications of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) have proven to deliver significant results in a cost efficient way. Despite this a strong majority of project still fail to sustain once the initial welfare resources are depleted.
Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to identify applications of ICT that can be valuable for society and at the same time present interesting business opportunities for a telecom operator.
Method: The study was divided into three different parts. Part 1; A broad selection of potential applications of ICT was matched with needs discovered during interviews with a broad range of local stakeholders (including stakeholders from; healthcare, education,... (More) - Background: Welfare projects using applications of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) have proven to deliver significant results in a cost efficient way. Despite this a strong majority of project still fail to sustain once the initial welfare resources are depleted.
Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to identify applications of ICT that can be valuable for society and at the same time present interesting business opportunities for a telecom operator.
Method: The study was divided into three different parts. Part 1; A broad selection of potential applications of ICT was matched with needs discovered during interviews with a broad range of local stakeholders (including stakeholders from; healthcare, education, agriculture, etc....). Part 2; each application were analyzed according to benefits and ease of implementation with the purpose to identify the 2 most attractive applications. Part 3; A more comprehensive analysis were conducted on each of the two applications identified in the previous phase – stakeholder analysis and value analysis – with the purpose to present a suitable business model.
Conclusions: Two applications of ICT are identified and a suitable business model applicable on the Dominican market is suggested for each application. (Less)
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- author
- Lewold, Marcus
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- MIO920
- year
- 2010
- type
- M1 - University Diploma
- subject
- keywords
- Sustainability, ICT, Evaluation of applications, Pilot project, Aid, Welfare
- other publication id
- 10/5360
- language
- English
- id
- 1976190
- date added to LUP
- 2011-06-16 16:08:31
- date last changed
- 2011-06-20 12:45:08
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