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   Mobile Citizen: Empowering people through mobile services
Programa Mobile Citizen: Empowering people through mobile services Posición: Project Manager Duración: 1 año (ampliable) Inicio: Marzo 2009 Lugar: Washington DC, con 3-5 viajes puntuales al año a países de América Latina y el Caribe Idiomas: Dominio del Español e Inglés (nivel nativo en uno de los dos idiomas y nivel elevado en el otro). Se valorarán conocimientos de Portugués. Educación: Formación universitaria con especialización en tecnologías de la información y comunicación (TIC). Se preferirán Ingenieros en Informática, Telecomunicaciones o Electrónica Experiencia:
Nacionalidad: cualquiera de entre los siguientes países: Alemania, Argentina, Austria, Bahamas, Barbados, Bélgica, Belice, Bolivia, Brasil, Canadá, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croacia, Dinamarca, Ecuador, El Salvador, Eslovenia, España, Estados Unidos, Finlandia, Francia, Guatemala, Guyana, Haití, Holanda, Honduras, Israel, Italia, Jamaica, Japón, México, Nicaragua, Noruega, Panamá, Paraguay, Perú, Portugal, Reino Unido, República de Corea, República Dominicana, República Popular de China, Suecia, Suiza, Suriname, Trinidad y Tobago, Uruguay y Venezuela. About the program The objective of the program is to accelerate the implementation of mobile services for development in the fields of health, government, trade and education. The project activities are designed to target four specific objectives: (i) to provide support to strengthen technical capacity for the design and development of mobile services and further; (ii) to develop mobile services with sustainable business models to allow scale-able implementation; (iii) to increase awareness and knowledge of the potential of mobile services in development critical for sustainable broad success, through rigorous results and impact evaluation, and comprehensive communication strategy throughout the duration of the project. Program components: 1. Capacity building. The objective of this component is to address the technical weaknesses of the value chain, and contribute to m-services market development in Latin America and the Caribbean. The component will provide resources to finance the following activities: (i) design of capacity building curricula based on good practice technology and operational needs, (ii) implementation of training to key private companies, mostly from the ICT industry, public institutions and academy across the region. 2. Pilot mobile services. The objective of this component is to support the implementation of selected mobile services for demonstration and impact evaluation. The component will provide resources to finance the following activities: (i) design of a competitive mechanism for pilot projects selection, (ii) implementation and supervision of pilot mobile services, in the range of US$40,000 to US$100,000, (iii) expand on existing research in economic feasibility of business models, and (iv) evaluation of pilot performance and impact analyses. This involves the design and implementation of an impact evaluation framework, which should include baseline and term performance indicators, as well as feasibility analysis on differing business models. 3. Communication and impact dissemination. The objective of this component is to communicate the action of this program and disseminate the pilot project evaluation and lessons learned to policy makers and decision makers in order to create wide and clear understanding of the impact of mobile services for economic development and social inclusion
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