NetHope Global Summit 2016

According to the 2016 UN/ITU Broadband Commission report, efforts to increase gender equality in ICT access have stalled after a period of incremental improvements. A week later, the Wall Street Journal ran a story titled: “Why the majority of Indian women will never use a smartphone.” Why is there so much tension between technology, gender, and cultural factors that limit the gender successes our organizations are working so hard to achieve? In this working group, we will explore the current state of gender and ICT4D, conduct simulations in order to help people develop gender-specific indicators, and demonstrate how to uncover new knowledge about culture, community and context critical to any ICT4D program success.

Technology Solutions for Global Health Program Operations: Finding the right tools and technology to support your global health programs can be challenging. This workshop will feature panel presentations on tools that have proven successful in field operations. From M&E to program execution tools, panelists will share lessons learned and best practices. Participants will discuss different applications of these tools and how they may be able to support their program operations.

Disaster Management and Connectivity & Infrastructure (C&I) working groups present back-to-back in these pre-Summit sessions. This session will cover the role of the Disaster Management working group, and its current projects, followed by a review of the Emergency Response Network Architecture.  Discussions will continue in the C&I working group, immediately following.

The Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) and NetHope have partnered to help organizations better utilize the Principles for Digital Development (PDD) when planning and executing their programs. The two organizations are creating a toolkit to be used by those working in the humanitarian sector, and are seeking input from members to help shape the discussion. The first part of this session will focus on assessment criteria for judging the implementation of PDD within a field program; the second part will focus on the resources needed by field project managers and their ICT support.

As a member based organization, NetHope depends on engaged members. The best engagement occurs when we meet regularly and in person. The European Chapter meeting has proven to be an exceptionally effective collaborative mechanism, bringing together nearly 50 member organization representatives twice per year to share and learn. This successful chapter meeting is driven by local members, who organize and host these meetings without NetHope staff direct involvement.

This workshop is designed to share best practices with those interested in creating and growing their own regional chapter meetings, and to enable those leading these new meetings to replicate and build upon the successes experienced at the European Chapter.

Disaster Management and Connectivity & Infrastructure (C&I) working groups present back-to-back in these pre-Summit sessions. This session will review tried-and-tested network implementations, including security, traffic shaping and bandwidth management. The C&I keynote guest speaker will encourage the NGO sector to band together to influence the network-services industry.

Technology Solutions for Global Health Program Operations: Finding the right tools and technology to support your global health programs can be challenging. This workshop will feature panel presentations on tools that have proven successful in field operations. From M&E to program execution tools, panelists will share lessons learned and best practices. Participants will discuss different applications of these tools and how they may be able to support their program operations.

This invitation-only session is for NetHope members who took part in the IT-CMF Data Protection capability assessment with the IVI. As part of the assessment all participating members will have received a capability improvement plan. The purpose of this session will be to identify synergies within the improvement plans in order that we can collaborate on improving our Data Protection Capability.

The Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) and NetHope have partnered to help organizations better utilize the Principles for Digital Development (PDD) when planning and executing their programs. The two organizations are creating a toolkit to be used by those working in the humanitarian sector, and are seeking input from members to help shape the discussion. The first part of this session will focus on assessment criteria for judging the implementation of PDD within a field program; the second part will focus on the resources needed by field project managers and their ICT support.