In the first year of the ICT4SIDS project, we have launched a pilot project with Timor Leste (TL) that is subdivided into the following concurrent tasks, displayed in Figure1:

Task 1:

Establish an ICT4SIDS-Center that can be used as a sample starting point by TL. This virtual Center (website) will initially show a sample Digital Community Center (DCC ) [1] and also a Business Intelligence (BI) Center [2].

Task 2:

Establish a BIG Data Repository that can support the ICT4SIDS-Center and also the ICT4TL Centers. A basic Big Data Repository already exists to support SPACE – it contains data data from World Bank, World Economic Forum, and UN Public Admin Network. We will extend it by using the UN DOS (Dept of Statistics) data.

Task 3:

Establish an ICT4TL-Center in TL based on the sample ICT4SIDS Center. It will initially provide basic DCC and BI services during the pilot project that will be expanded later.

Task 4:

Develop the “Train the Trainer Program” that concentrates on human capacity building in TL.

Task5:

Publish the work in white papers and also present results in IWC 2015.

Figure 1 shows these key tasks and the inter-relationships between these tasks. As can be seen, the ICT4SIDS Partnership team will play a central role in supporting these tasks.

1. DCCs, also known as eService Centers, are very popular in rural areas of India, Nepal, Africa and the Far East .The DCCs are used as one stop shops for eservices in remote areas where they can go to make payments of their bills (one place instead of many places), buy bus and train tickets, get adult learning lessons, get some help on food and agriculeture, and even some telemedicine services. DCCs can be of very high value to rural areas in TL.

2. BI Centers provide specialized decision support and business intelligence capabilities to support tourism, disaster management, food safety and healthcare. A BI Center can be part of a DCC (e.g., BI is another eservice provided by a DCC).