CSRspace helps clients with the transformational application of ICT4D in the sectors where the largest impact can be achieved: agriculture, smart cities, climate change, education, health, financial services, and government.
We have the capacity to assist with the planning of a wide range of ICT investments. These can be small projects (e.g. a digital community center in a remote village to provide remote health services and tele-education), all the way to large integrated projects for established urban communities (e.g. to implement Smart City technologies that achieve sustainability goals and enable managed scalability).
We utilize advanced tools like the S3C Framework to engage stakeholders and capture a vision for future communities, and the Living Lab to manage a collaborative approach to innovating urban ICT. To this end we also work with major universities and technology companies to apply leading edge research and technologies.
In addition, CSRspace structures the development of competitive ICT industries, for example through the establishment of ICT tech centers. Such centers already have become incubators for startups and economic development throughout developing countries, but are also attractive for multinational firms who want to leverage efficiencies of the local labor market through Foreign Direct Investment.
One of our differentiators is that we can leverage our internal training curriculum to intervene in the planning process such that stakeholders expand their understanding of the possibilities and limitations of ICT4D, and we can provide seamless integration between planning and our implementation services.
Key to the success of ICT4D is, however, the recognition of the specific local and regional circumstances, building upon consultative stakeholder processes. Simply attempting to transplant the technologies and go to market strategies that work in developed countries like the United States is doomed to failure. The African continent needs more focus on ICT made in Africa for Africa. The same holds true for Latin America and Asia.
