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ICT project management
Checkpoint 10: Managing risk: What unexpected events or situations might arise? What should be done to manage these?
Delivering an aid program is an inherently risky venture. An ICT-based project is likely to compound the risk. This is due to the technical difficulties that are an inherent feature of ICT in its current state of development and the more limited access to advice in a developing country on how to resolve these difficulties.
Many development activities fail to live up to expectations. This applies particularly to ICT projects due to the widespread hype about the new technology's potential.
The key questions for a donor in identifying and managing risk are:
- 'What unexpected events or situations might arise?' and
- 'What should be done to manage these?'
The risks involved at each stage of the activity cycle of a project need to be identified and managed. For more details, visit AusGUIDE, 2001, Activity Cycle Overview.
The potential risks for all the stakeholders involved need to be identified. This refers to the potential risks for the recipient Government, the community targeted for the program and the service deliverers or other intermediaries.
In relation to the targeted poor, one risk factor to consider is whether the project is likely to exacerbate local inequalities or increase tension between ethnic or religious groups.
- Published: Jan 2004
- Source: Curtain Consulting (http:// www.curtain-consulting.net.au)
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