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DOT-COMments Articles by Intervention: Public/Private Partnerships
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Title: Broadband Connectivity in Macedonian Schools by September 2005
Issue: July 2005, Issue 12
DOT: DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: At the beginning of the upcoming school year, all elementary and secondary schools in Macedonia will have broadband internet access. This will be achieved through the efforts of the Macedonia Connects Project, managed by dot-ORG. The project was designed initially to complement the E- Schools project managed by dot-EDU. E-Schools would bring the computer labs to the schools and Macedonia Connects would bring internet connectivity to these computer labs in at least 496 primary and secondary schools as well as University sites throughout Macedonia. Yet there is more to the project than school connectivity. dot-ORG designed this project to broaden its impact to the entire country of Macedonia, not just schools, and to ensure sustainability.
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Title: USAID/Macedonia's e-Biz Project: An Innovative Approach to Building Competitive Industries
Issue: July 2005, Issue 12
DOT: DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: A year ago, industry experts pronounced the Macedonia apparel industry virtually dead in five years. The report was shocking the apparel industry is one of the largest employers in the country. Today, these same experts have credited USAIDs e-BIZ project with breathing new life into the industry and positioning apparel manufacturing SMEs to save and/or generate thousands of jobs over the next three years. The e-BIZ project is providing a similar job-development lifeline to other industries. Through strategic use of high impact ICTs, synergies with standard competitiveness activities, and creative links between universities and businesses, the e-BIZ project provides a new model for building SME competitiveness.
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Title: ICT Policy and Sustainability: Experience from the dot-GOV Program
Issue: January 2005, Issue 9
DOT: DOT: dot-GOV
Summary: This article highlights two perspectives on ICT policy and sustainability. First, it outlines key elements of a sustainable approach to ICT policy reforms, with examples based on dot-GOVs experience in making ICT policy reform sustainable. Second, the article looks at the impact of ICT policy and policy reforms on the support of efforts to bridge the digital divide and to make effective use of ICT to help tackle development challenges.
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Title: Local Entrepreneurial Skills & Sustainability in Rwandas Community Internet Centers
Issue: January 2005, Issue 9
DOT: DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: This article describes entrepreneurship training that was provided to the managers of Community Internet Centers (CICs) in Rwanda. The purpose of the training was to ensure that the CIC managers had the skills to run the CICs as profit-making enterprises.
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Title: Halls of Knowledge Open to Communities in Three Malian Cities
Issue: Spring/Summer 2004, Issue 7
DOT: DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: May 5th - 7th, 2004 saw the official inaugurations of three new Community Learning and Information Centers (CLICs) in Bougouni, Kadiolo and Segou, Mali. These three centers are part of a USAID/Mali funded initiative to open 13 public access telecenters across Mali.
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Title: Primary Teacher-Training gets Connect-ED in Uganda
Issue: Spring/Summer 2004, Issue 7
DOT: DOT: dot-EDU
Summary: Through the Connectivity for Educator Development (Connect-ED) project, USAID/Uganda is supporting the reform and expansion of the primary teacher-training program by providing computer access and training at eight core primary teacher colleges throughout Uganda.
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Title: NetTel@Africa Publishes AfricaDotEdu: IT Opportunities and Higher Education in Africa
Issue: Winter 2003, Issue 6
DOT: DOT: dot-GOV
Summary: As part of its mission to share research on ICTs, the NetTel@Africa project recently published a book, AfricaDotEdu: IT Opportunities and Higher Education in Africa (India: Tata-McGraw Hill, 2003). The edited volume highlights the impact ICTs have on educational institutions, systems, content and processes in Africa, with case studies illustrating the role higher education has on developing local capacities in pedagogy, research, publishing, healthcare, e-commerce, and cyber law.
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Title: Applying the Bangladesh Village Phone Program to Uganda in support of Women Entrepreneurs
Issue: Fall 2003, Issue 5
DOT: DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: The Academy for Educational Development/dot-ORG, Mobile Telephone Network (MTN) Uganda, a network of microfinance institutions, and the Grameen Technology Center along with its other investors, are partnering to launch Village Phone Uganda (VPU).
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Title: Launch of dot-ORG/Intel Computer Clubhouses in South Africa
Issue: Summer 2003, Issue 4
DOT: DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: dot-ORG/Intel Collaborative Project To Develop Strategies for Sustaining and Expanding Computer Clubhouses in Brazil and South Africa was officially launched in South Africa on February 14th by Eric Rusten (Deputy Director, dot-ORG), Phil Christensen (Country Director, AED South Africa), Parthy Chetty, (Education Manager, Intel South Africa), and representatives from the two NGOs that are establishing three Clubhouses in the Johannesburg area.
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Title: dot-ORG & Intel Collaborate for Sustainable Computer Clubhouses
Issue: Winter 2002, Issue 2
DOT: DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: The dot-ORG project is investing some of its pilot project funds to collaborate with Intel Computer Clubhouses in Brazil and South Africa to design and test strategies and business plans that may enable these Clubhouse and other types of public access centers become sustainable enterprises. To facilitate this collaborative pilot project, Intel and the Academy for Educational Development (AED) signed a memorandum of understanding in October 2002.
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Title: NetTel@Africa: African-led Network of Telecommunications Regulator Associations
Issue: Fall 2002, Issue 1
DOT: DOT: dot-GOV
Summary: NetTel@Africa, a five year program funded through the USAID dot-GOV project, led by Internews Network, and managed by Washington State University's Center to Bridge the Digital Divide (CBDD), is establishing an African-led network for capacity building and knowledge exchange among telecommunication regulator associations. This network will improve sector policy formulation, harmonization, implementation, and help develop regulator training programs within African universities.
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Title: Official launch of the Romania Information Technology Initiative
Issue: Fall 2002, Issue 1
DOT: DOT: DOT-COM
Summary: On July 29, 2002 in Bucharest, the Romanian Information Technology Initiative (RITI) was launched by representatives of the Romanian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), USAID, and the DOT-COM Alliance. MCIT Minister Dan Nica and Dr. Kent Hill, USAID Europe and Eurasia Bureau's Assistant Administrator, officiated at the ceremony.
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