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Integra’s Eric White Featured in ICT Update, Issue No. 74

Featured in ICT Update’s Q&A entitled “Broadband Strategies”, Eric White answers some commonly asked, but seldom answered questions about providing connectivity to rural areas, business models that support it, and current trends in ICT policy. Read more

October 22, 2013/by actualize

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Integra LLC Incorporating ICTs into the Lagos-Kano Trade Corridor

The first annual LAKAJI corridor investment summit was successfully concluded in Abuja on August 29th, with Integra making sure that ICTs featured prominently. The summit brought together over 200 members of the private sector to articulate a clear vision of how to develop an agricultural trade corridor. The vision incorporates the development of a multi-modal trade expressway between Lagos and Kano, with junctions connecting off-corridor states, and includes a steering committee of private sector representatives that will coordinate investments. Integra participated in the investment summit under USAID’s NEXTT Project. Read more

September 13, 2013/by actualize

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Integra to Support Peru’s Universal Service Fund to Expand Rural Connectivity

Under USAID’s GBI Program, Integra has initiated work with Peru’s Ministry of Transport and Communication and the Fondo de Inversion Telecommunicaciones (FITEL), to evaluate and address the gaps in connectivity throughout the country’s rural areas. The collaboration is designed to provide an investment strategy for the use of approximately $44 million in universal service funds to provide Internet connectivity for USAID Peru’s target beneficiaries in jungle regions East of the Andes Mountains. Read more

August 30, 2013/by actualize

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Integra to Organize Two Sessions for the ICT4Ag Conference in Rwanda, November 4-8

Integra LLC is thrilled to announce that we will be organizing two sessions at the ICT4Ag conference in Rwanda, November 4-8. Hosted by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and the Rwandan Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources (MINAGRI), the conference will bring together ICT experts from around the world in support of creating an enabling environment for ICT use in agricultural development. Read more …

August 9, 2013/by actualize

Africa, Areas of Expertise, Information and Communication Technology for Development, Integra News, Where we work

Government of Kenya Launches National Broadband Strategy

On July 23, 2013, at a high profile event in Nairobi attended by the US Ambassador, Kenya became only the second country in Africa to launch an elaborate National Broadband […]

July 26, 2013/by actualize

Asia, Connectivity, Integra News, Originally posted on the GBI Portal, Where we work

Integra to assist in USAID’s ASEAN Connectivity through Trade and Investment (ACTI) Project

Integra LLC is pleased to announce the award of a subcontract from Nathan Associates, Inc. to provide technical services for the ASEAN Connectivity through Trade and Investment (ACTI) project. Funded through USAID’s Regional Development Mission for Asia (RDMA), the project focuses on trade facilitation, energy sector development, small enterprise expansion, and telecommunications development. Read more …

July 15, 2013/by actualize

Africa, Agriculture, Food Security & Rural Development, Areas of Expertise, Economic Growth, Integra News, Where we work

Eric White, Integra LLC’s Lead Economist, to join panel at the World Bank Info Shop!

Eric White, Integra LLC’s Lead Economist and Managing Associate, will join a panel next Wednesday, May 15th at the World Bank Info Shop. At the event, entitled“Breaking the Rural – Urban Divide”, panelists will be discussing two books released by the World Bank Press; Structural Transformation and Rural Change Revisited and Financing Africa’s Cities. As a co-author of the former, Mr. White will take part in a discussion about the structural transformation process, from both a rural and urban perspective.

Communications Commission of Kenya releases National Broadband Strategy for public hearing

This past January the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) presented the draft of their National Broadband Strategy for public review. The strategy outlines a comprehensive plan for bringing communications services and ICT business development to all of Kenya. Expected to cost US$ 2.4 billion, 70% is budgeted for national infrastructure while the remainder will be used for capacity building and content development. Funding will be a combination of public and private sources and will include accessing Kenya’s capital markets. Read more …

April 19, 2013/by actualize

Areas of Expertise, GBI Updates, Information and Communication Technology for Development, Integra News, Latin America and the Caribbean, USAF Updates, Where we work

Broadband a key target for Colombia

Jonathan Malagon speaks at a February Compartel Broadband Strategy event

Jonathan Malagon, (fmr) Director of Compartel, speaks at a February Compartel Broadband Strategy event

On October 23 Integra wrapped up its technical assistance in Colombia, with the presentation of a strategic plan for Compartel, a telecommunications organization under the direction of the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (MINTIC). The “Broadband Strategic Plan: 2013-2017” (below, in Spanish), was developed by Compartel in collaboration with Integra’s consultants working under USAID’s Global Broadband and Innovations program (GBI). The project also falls under the Broadband Partnership of the Americas, an initiative announced by President Obama while he was in Colombia in April 2011.

November 19, 2012/by actualize

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Integra to assist in Nigeria NEXTT

Integra is pleased to be a part of the winning consortium led by CARANA Corporation, which was recently awarded the Nigeria Expanded Trade and Transport (NEXTT) Program.

The Objective of the NEXTT Program is to support the Nigerian government’s efforts to expand trade domestically, within the Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) sub-region and beyond, and improve its efficiency so that trade, particularly in agricultural products, can provide inclusive economic growth and development of Nigeria.

Integra will participate in the initial agricultural corridors assessment and will provide all ICT needs arising from this assessment. Integra will also be on hand to identify and support all project ICT tasks as these opportunities arise.

Nigeria NEXTT is not Integra’s first experience in Nigeria. Under the Global Broadband and Innovations Program, Integra has been working closely with leadership in the Nigerian Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, The Nigerian Communications Commission and the Universal Service Provisioning Fund, to assist in creating a new strategy and processes for more effective use of Fund resources. For more information about this work, please visit our Universal Service Fund project page.

October 16, 2012/by actualize

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