The ICT revolution is bringing tremendous benefits to millions around the globe - but is also leaving millions behind, through a lack of access and a lack of relevant applications. dot-ORG works with USAID and USAID partners to help bridge these gaps and gives support to:

• Improve ICT policy and regulatory environments to enable rapid ICT deployment and effective utilization, including telecommunications policy and e-legislation, encompassing security, privacy, and cybercrime issues; and increase awareness of ICT policy, legal and regulatory issues among policymakers, the judiciary, and other stakeholders responsible for policy development and implementation.
For example, dot-ORG designed and created comprehensive e-Legislation model laws for Kenya.


• Increase access to ICT by deploying sustainable public access solutions in underserved semi-urban and rural areas thereby opening up opportunities for larger segments of the population to benefit from ICT.
For example, dot-ORG has worked most recently in Macedonia, Paraguay, and Kyrgyzstan to deploy locally-adapted Internet access solutions.


• Design and implement innovative applications to support sector growth, including mobile applications such as m-banking, supply chain management, leveraging mobile technologies and sector-specific technologies to develop high-impact applications.
In Mongolia, dot-ORG piloted innovative mobile technologies (Voice over WiFi) to improve rural access to telecommunications. In Paraguay, dot-ORG is expanding the reach of a public Internet access project to integrate a mobile banking platform that will link rural microfinance clients to lending institutions via cell phones.


• Enhance learning and information disssemination by developing knowledge products, organizing knowledge sharing and capacity building events, as well as developing relevant web content. For example, dot-ORG coordinates and facilitates the annual USAID/USTTI e-Government seminar and compiled a series of Lessons Learned based on its project experience.