Prioritizing Korean ICT ODA Project Areas and Project Types for Africa

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Young-Chool Choi

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This study starts with a recognition that the direction of Korea’s Information and Communication Technology (ICT)-related ODA projects in Africa needs to change, as the Covid-19 pandemic, which has been ongoing since January 2020, continues to spread around the world. Korea is one of the world’s leading countries in the field of ICT and has been conducting ICT-related ODA projects in Africa for a long time now. Taking advantage of this status, the country needs in the future to re-organize its ICT-related business fields and redistribute resources. Following Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) analysis conducted by experts, the healthcare field was selected as the field that should receive the most investment in the future. As regards project type, investment in infrastructure relating to ICT is shown to be important, and the spread of various ICT-related systems is important too.

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