The partnership is centered around the participating islands that select projects of high value to them. We focus on producing results by using the capabilities of the following partners (see Figure 2):
OCCAM (Observatory for Cultural and Audiovisual Communication ( www.occam.org ) is one of the oldest United Nations NGO that has formed several ICT villages for poor communities. OCCAM is currently specializing in Telemedicine, Food Safety, and Education through ICT. OCCAM annually organizes the 20th Euro-Mediterranean Conference.
Figure 2: The Partnership Roles
Infopoverty Institute at Oklahoma University (
www.infopoverty.net ), supports OCCAM to run an annual UN Infopoverty World Conference (IWC), at the UN Headquarters in NYC (the 14th IWC was held in April, 2014). IWCs attract representatives from more than 100 countries every year and provide an excellent platform to show results.
University of Oklahoma's Education and Training Institute (ETI) and Harrisburg University of Science and Technology (HU – website
www.harrisburgu.edu ) Graduate Programs in ICT are collaborating to support human capacity building through online courses with focus on developing countries.
Harrisburg University’s Graduate Programs in ICT (Analytics, IS Engineering and Management, and IT Project Management) have more than 300 students who are interested in developing countries (most are from developing countries). These students are engaged in Graduate research that will result in white papers and research publications on different aspects of ICT for small islands.
The ICT4SIDS Partnership utilizes an innovative computer aided environment called SPACE (Strategic Planning, Architectures, Controls and Education – website www.space4ict.com ) that can quickly enable more than 100 ICT services in healthcare, education, public safety and public welfare sectors in developing countries. SPACE currently supports UN
OCCAM and Infopoverty initiatives, is being used to support human capacity building initiatives, and also research on digital innovation for developing countries. SPACE has been developed by NGE Solutions.
