Current Status of the IT sector in Madagascar

A quick overview for the SSLEV

Mrs Miangaly Andriamampandry Ingenosya
Febuary 2009

The IT sector in Madagascar

For about 19M people:

5 Tel op. (~5M users) + 3 Internet Providers (~ 200K users) > 2500 jobs Software Development (5.000 employees, mostly for export) 8 Call Centers (~ 1 700 op., 3 from telecoms) 24 local TV channels + 1 national + 3 sat. ~200 local radios

IT Training Status

Number of graduates: 5,000 per year

Among them: 600 engineers

In IT: 50 engineers and 450 technicians

27 IT schools (9 public), 1 Cisco, 1 Linux, 3 Microsoft Certification centers Basic IT knowledge is gradually introduced into most curricula

Cisco Certification Program at INATA

Cisco Certified Network Associate:

CCNA 1: Networks basics CCNA 2: Routing basics CCNA 3: Commutation and Routing CCNA 4: Wan Technologies Courses are inline and are completed by practical exercises (248h in total) CCNA is an industry recognized certification that can be obtained after 6 to 18 months training

Partnership with India

Central Government network development

Pan African VVIP/Health/Higher Education network

Succes Stories

1,200 village phones by Zain in Q4-2008 9,000 refurbished computers distributed to schools in 2008 eBit: national tradeshow and IT promotion event
Telephony growth

6,000,000 5,000,000 4,000,000 3,000,000 2,000,000 1,000,000 0 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 # of subscribers

Major Issues

Energy: the non availability of electricity in most rural areas is slowing down the IT development Training: we cant even meet the current IT sectors needs Cost of communication: still too much satellite use

Strategy of Development

Infrastructure development Contents development: suited to the people and

supporting the businesses, both in malagasy and foreign languages (FR - EN)

e-Administration Training: within 10 years, 10M users of IT, we must produce

30K IT specialists to support the growth of the sector and the role of the country in the region

Entrepreneurship development Trade in IT development

Action Plan

Infrastructure: finish up the national Backbone and

enhance access

ICT for all: ICT villages, e-contents e-Administration: 3 phases from the central offices
to the regional and local communities

Training: increase the capacity of the training centers

and focus on industry recognized certification programs, high speed network of the Universities

Development of an IT business park (Antanetibe)

Action Plan

IT forum in Malagasy regions Novatech, IT meeting with Africa and UE E-Commerce regulation : electronic documents,
electronic signature, Cybercrime, intellectual property,

Internet banking

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