Digital Strategy - Whiteboard Animation, Data Governance Diagnostic Tool 

SCOPE OF WORK  

BACKGROUND  

Digital Frontiers is a $90 million buy-in mechanism available to USAID Bureaus and Missions from 2017-2024. DAI implements the Digital Frontiers project, which works closely with USAID Missions, the private sector, and international and local development organizations to identify successful and sustainable digital development approaches and scale their impact globally. In April 2020, USAID released its first-ever Digital Strategy. The Strategy charts an Agency-wide vision for development and humanitarian assistance in the world’s rapidly evolving digital landscape. The Strategy’s goal is to achieve and sustain open, secure, and inclusive digital ecosystems that contribute to broad-based, measurable development, and humanitarian assistance outcomes and increase self-reliance in emerging market countries. USAID’s Digital Strategy has two core, mutually-reinforcing objectives: 1) improve measurable development and humanitarian assistance outcomes through the responsible use of digital technology in USAID’s programming and 2) strengthen the openness, inclusiveness, and security of country-level digital ecosystems.   

Digital Frontiers played a key role in supporting the development and launch of the Digital Strategy and continues to play an integral role in its implementation. With ITR/T leading the process, Digital Frontiers works closely with the ITR/T team to ensure a thorough, thoughtful, and consensus‐led process for the implementation of the various Digital Strategy initiatives. One of the Digital Strategy initiatives is Data Governance.   

The OECD defines Data Governance (DG) as principles, policies, standards, laws, regulations, and agreements designed to control, manage, share, protect, and extract value from various data types. Data governance is often misunderstood as a firm-level concern, and it is often under-prioritized in digital transformation efforts in low-and-middle-income countries. Many USAID partner countries have implemented data protection and privacy policies, in most cases inspired by the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Whereas data protection and privacy policy efforts tend to be aimed at risk mitigation, data governance further includes the entire data lifecycle and potential improvements in data production, sharing, and use. Few countries have implemented comprehensive data governance policies. By implementing comprehensive data governance policies, partner countries can improve their data ecosystems, leading to virtuous cycles of data production, using more data-literate citizens, and enabling environments that increase local competition in the global digital economy.    

OBJECTIVE  

Digital Frontiers seeks to hire a whiteboard animator to develop 2-3 minute video to support the roll-out of a diagnostic tool to assess data governance capabilities. The whiteboard animation will include an overview of the tool and a hypothetical example to illustrate the practical application of the tool. The tool and hypothetical example will be provided by the client. The objective of the whiteboard animation is to provide a visually compelling and educational video to support the roll-out of a technical diagnostic framework. The whiteboard animation will be used across USAID, within Missions, and by implementing partners, along with the diagnostic tool, to inform the design and implementation of development programs and policies. Though the whiteboard animation is intended primarily for USAID/Missions/Washington OUs/Implementing Partners, it should also be suitable for public distribution. The consultant will keep in mind the importance of packaging technical material so that diverse audiences can understand the tool. USAID and Digital Frontiers will work closely with the identified consultant to provide technical feedback, editing, clearance facilitation, and graphic design.  

TASKS  

Deliverables: Script outlining narration  

Deliverables: Visual storyboard outlining scenes and concepts  

Deliverables: High-quality animation with voiceover 

Additional requirements 

USAID colors and fonts and USAID bumpers at the beginning and end of the video.  

DELIVERABLES  

The deliverables for this consultancy are outlined below.   

TIMEFRAME AND LOE  

The estimated timeframe is from February 20th, 2024 – June 30, 2024. The estimated level of effort is 35  days.   

Location: May be based anywhere but must be available to overlap with EST time zone for weekly meetings.   

PROJECT MANAGEMENT 

The consultant will report to the Digital Strategy Senior Program Manager, Deepika Ramachandran and Program Manager, Emily Joyce. The firm will need to collaborate with USAID personnel throughout the project, with support and direction from Digital Frontiers.  

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