Integrating ICT into Value Chain Development Introduction

[Knowledge base]

Value chains encompass the full range of activities and services required to bring a product or service from its conception to sale in its final markets—whether local, national, regional or global. Value chains include input suppliers, producers, processors and buyers and are supported by a range of technical, business and financial service providers.

Information and communications technology (ICT) offers a growing number of ways to exploit opportunities and ad-dress constraints to value chain growth and competitiveness.

Paper attached - written by Judith Payne of USAID and Lisa Kearns and Hannah Schiff of ACDI/VOCA.

Integrating_ICT_into_VC_Development_Briefing_Paper[1].pdf