DOT-COMments Articles by Sector: Economic Growth and Trade
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Title: eCenters Pilot Project One Year Anniversary - Innovations for Sustainability and Impact
Issue: June 2006, Issue 16
DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: In 2005, the eCenters project began with a simple premise - to empower rural residents in Kyrgyzstan by connecting them to high-speed Internet and knowledge skills training. A year after the launch of the project, the eCenters are showing great promise.
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Title: Deploying Low-Energy ICT A technical overview
Issue: February 2006, Issue 15
DOT: dot-EDU
Summary: This article is a follow up to a brief article that appeared in the December DOT-COMments, "Low- energy Internet for Education - Where Electricity is a Challenge", which described an effort to set up a low-power rural technology lab in Uganda. This article responds to requests from readers for a technical overview of the project.
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Title: Last Mile initiative Mongolia Connecting Rural Communities
Issue: February 2006, Issue 15
DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: In December 2005, USAID dispatched a Last Mile Initiative (LMI) team to test a Voice over Wireless Fidelity (VoWiFi) phone network in rural Mongolia. The pilot project focuses activities at the small village level with average populations around 2,000 persons. This article discusses initial plans for deploying innovative technologies and leveraging existing and upcoming private sector investments.
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Title: From Voter Registration to Health Monitoring - Handheld Computers for Development - dot-ORG
Issue: October 2005, Issue 13
DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: In developing country contexts, handheld computer applications are starting to show their benefits across development sectors. Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and other types of handheld computers offer considerable advantages over desktops or even laptops. Read more to learn about specific projects dot-ORG has been involved in...
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Title: Broadband Connectivity in Macedonian Schools by September 2005
Issue: July 2005, Issue 12
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-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: Mali: Selected Snapshots of the 12,000 CLIC Clients (dot-ORG)
Issue: March 2005, Issue 10
DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: After 10 months of operation, most of the Community Learning and Information Centers that were established under the dot-ORG pilot funded by USAID/Mali are taking off. Early challenges in building a client base and establishing reliable Internet connections have been overcome, yet other challenges remain ahead.
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Title: ICT Policy and Sustainability: Experience from the dot-GOV Program
Issue: January 2005, Issue 9
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-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: Rwanda: The Power to Succeed
Issue: January 2005, Issue 9
DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: An unreliable power supply can result in loss of revenues and loss of clientele for telecenters. In Rwanda, dot-ORG has asked Winrock to establish battery back-up solutions for the three Community Internet Centers established under the ICTs for Elections and Community Access project.
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Title: EVENT: Speaker Series on Cyber-Security Issues in International Development Environments
Issue: Fall 2004, Issue 8
DOT: dot-GOV
Summary: On September 16, the DOT-COM Alliance and InterAction co-hosted the fourth Speaker Series on ICTs and Development. The topic was Cyber-Security Issues in International Development Environments. A panel of four cyber-security experts provided a rich learning experience and opportunities for discussions.
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Title: Helping Small Thai Businesses Make the Most of the Internet for e-Commerce
Issue: Fall 2004, Issue 8
DOT: dot-GOV
Summary: A seminar on "e-Commerce solutions for Thai SMEs was convened in Bangkok, Thailand in June 2004. The objective of the seminar was to impart practical skills and to share lessons learned from successful companies that faced challenges similar to those faced by Thai SMEs.
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Title: Mali CLIC Regional Training to Build on Sustainability Efforts
Issue: Fall 2004, Issue 8
DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: In order to strengthen the network of Community Learning and Information Centers (CLICs), regional training has taken place to ensure that the CLIC managers and staff have the necessary tools to collect and analyze data that will enhance sustainability.
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Title: Project Results and Lessons - ICT and Employability Training for Poor Brazilian Youth
Issue: Fall 2004, Issue 8
DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: Programa para o Futuro's innovative curriculum, integrating information and communication technology (ICT) and employability training has taught 50 disadvantaged Brazilian youths the workplace readiness and computer skills they needed to succeed in the technologically driven workplace of the 21st century.
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Title: Supporting Regional Telecommunication Associations: Interview with Brian Goulden
Issue: Fall 2004, Issue 8
DOT: dot-GOV
Summary: The SIPRS project provided technical assistance and capacity building to the Telecommunications Regulators Association of Southern Africa (TRASA). Brian Goulden, former SIPRS project director, spoke with DOT-COM about the role of TRASA as a regional regulatory association...
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Title: Technology is Making Life a Little Easier for Low-Income Residents of Romania's Sibiu County
Issue: Fall 2004, Issue 8
DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: The Social Services Assistance Integrated System (SSAIS)Project, implemented within the broader context of dot-ORG's Romania Information Technology Initiative (RITI) Access project. In Sibiu County, the SSAIS project is facilitating increase efficiency and speed in the processing of financial assistance requests from citizens.
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Title: Volunteers Advance Management Skills of Vietnamese Software Companies
Issue: Fall 2004, Issue 8
DOT: dot-GOV
Summary: Thirteen Vietnamese software companies located in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi benefited from intensive, hands-on training provided by four Geek Corps volunteers (www.geekcorps.org) over the period of April-September 2004. This focused technical assistance has been extended to the wider ICT sector in Vietnam.
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Title: Call Center Breathes New Life into Jiu Valley, Romania
Issue: Spring/Summer 2004, Issue 7
DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: dot-ORG's Romania Information Technology Initiative (RITI) Access project has collaborated with the not-for-profit Jiu Valley Association (JVA) and one of Romania's leading software developers and call center operators (Softwin) to establish a business support call center at University of Petrosani.
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Title: Digital Satellite Radio Helps Overcome Rural Isolation
Issue: Spring/Summer 2004, Issue 7
DOT: dot-GOV
Summary: Every day, tens of thousands of Nepalese tune into the radio drama, Khura Khasra Mitha, (Let's Talk Straight) to be entertained by the stories of life in the village of Sundapur centered on the elder woman, Thuldidi. This program, part of Equal Access' Digital Broadcast Initiative, delivers more than entertainment - the characters discuss critical issues such as HIV/AIDS and women's empowerment. These discussions continue after the broadcast in hundreds of village community groups organized under this Initiative.
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Title: Enhancing Democratization in Rwanda through New Voter Registration Cards
Issue: Spring/Summer 2004, Issue 7
DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: USAID/Rwanda has contributed significantly to the democratization process in Rwanda through a two-year dot-ORG project to strengthen the capacity of the Rwandan National Electoral Commission (NEC) via information and communications technologies (ICTs). Implemented by the Academy for Educational Development (AED), dot-ORG is working with the NEC to create and maintain a national voter database, print fraud-resistant voter registration cards, network regional Commission offices, and pilot hand-held computers to collect and validate voter registration information.
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Title: EVENT: Online Professional Development for Educators
Issue: Spring/Summer 2004, Issue 7
DOT: dot-EDU
Summary: On May 6th, 2004, DOT-COM and InterAction co-hosted the third session in its speaker series on ICTs and Development, focusing on Online Professional Development for Educators. Over 60 participants attended the session held at AED's conference center in Washington, DC.
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Title: Groundbreaking Collaboration Between Middle Eastern Regulators and ICT Companies
Issue: Spring/Summer 2004, Issue 7
DOT: dot-GOV
Summary: Unprecedented exchange and collaboration among high-powered Middle Eastern telecommunications officials and public/private sector representatives occurred this past March 2004. During a series of USAID-funded meetings and workshops in Jordan, telecommunications leaders from five Arabic countries expressed a willingness to cooperate on promoting growth and development of the most important technology issues of the 21st century.
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Title: Halls of Knowledge Open to Communities in Three Malian Cities
Issue: Spring/Summer 2004, Issue 7
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: Harmonization of E-Commerce Legal Framework for Southern Africa
Issue: Spring/Summer 2004, Issue 7
DOT: dot-GOV
Summary: The Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the USAID-funded dot-GOV Southern African ICT and Policy Reform Support ("SIPRS") Project are collaborating to harmonize the legal framework for Electronic Commerce. Working closely with the Southern African Transport Communications Commission Technical Unit, SIPRS is helping the Southern African countries address core e-commerce issues, such as cyber crime, intellectual property rights, and privacy concerns.
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Title: Improving the Quality of Vietnamese Software Development
Issue: Spring/Summer 2004, Issue 7
DOT: dot-GOV
Summary: As part of the dot-GOV USAID/ANE-funded efforts in the ASEAN region to create an enabling environment for ICT policy reform, Internews, collaborating with the Vietnam Competitiveness Initiative (VNCI), held two workshops for software companies in Vietnam on software engineering and management.
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Title: IT College Scholarships for Disadvantaged Brazilian Youth
Issue: Spring/Summer 2004, Issue 7
DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: Programa Para o Futuro, the IT training for employability program for disadvantaged Brazilian youth, established a partnership with IBRATEC, the best 2-year private technical college in the North East of Brazil. Under this partnership, IBRATEC offered all 50 of the program's youth free scholarships to their IT degree program. Since eight youth are still in high school, only 42 youth were able to accept these scholarships to attend IBRATEC.
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Title: NetTel@Africa Offers Online ICT Policy and Regulation Courses
Issue: Spring/Summer 2004, Issue 7
DOT: dot-GOV
Summary: NetTel@Africa has launched its first offering of eLearning courses for a postgraduate diploma and Masters programme in ICT Policy and Regulation in March 2004.
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Title: Online Professional Development Changing Education Perceptions and Practices in Namibia
Issue: Spring/Summer 2004, Issue 7
DOT: dot-EDU
Summary: Through the USAID/Namibia-funded Initiative for Namibian Education Technology (iNET), dot-EDU is providing professional development to Namibian teachers using online education. Via access to the web-based Teaching to Standards with New Technologies (TSNT) course and asynchronous communication with instructors and peers, Namibian teachers in the National Institute for Educational Development (NIED) are learning how to use technology to improve their education abilities.
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Title: Piloting PDAs to Improve Data Collection and Monitoring of Health Projects in Nepal
Issue: Spring/Summer 2004, Issue 7
DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: USAID/Nepal and USAID/Asia and Near East Bureau (ANE) are funding the dot-ORG Nepal Health Monitoring Pilot Project to explore the use of ICTs for health monitoring. With SATELLIFE and other dot-ORG partners, the project is testing hand-held computers or personal digital assistants (PDAs) and global positioning systems (GPS) to be used by community health workers to quickly and accurately collect important survey data on vitamin A distribution.
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Title: Protecting the Rights of African Telecommunications Consumers
Issue: Spring/Summer 2004, Issue 7
DOT: dot-GOV
Summary: Through the support of dot-GOV, under the USAID/Regional Center for Southern Africa (RCSA) funded Southern African Development Community (SADC) ICT Policy and Regulatory Support Program (SIPRS) project, TRASA is developing an African Consumer's Bill of Rights to help protect African consumers.
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Title: RITI-Policy Helps Romania Fight Cyber Crime
Issue: Spring/Summer 2004, Issue 7
DOT: dot-GOV
Summary: To combat the pressing problem of cyber-crime, the Government of Romania passed a series of laws in April of 2003. While the enactment of these laws is essential to fighting cyber crime, their enforcement has been very challenging, in part due to the fact that these crimes are relatively new types of criminal behavior.
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Title: Semi-Literate Mekong Women Learn Using Video Compact Discs
Issue: Spring/Summer 2004, Issue 7
DOT: dot-EDU
Summary: dot-EDU is using low-cost video compact discs (VCD) to help reach at-risk youth in South East Asia in this core-funded pilot activity. The project is designed to gauge the success of applying this versatile and ubiquitous technology to meet critical learning needs of young women who cross the Mekong in search of a more exciting and financially rewarding life in Thailand.
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Title: Universal/Rural Access Moves Forward in Nigeria
Issue: Spring/Summer 2004, Issue 7
DOT: dot-GOV
Summary: Nigerians are plagued by lack of access to affordable telephones, especially in rural areas. To resolve this problem, dot-GOV, through the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association (NTCA), is helping support policy development and implementation of a regulatory framework for private sector-driven telecommunications systems in rural and underserved areas.
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Title: Using Cellular Phones in Uganda for Rural Income Generation and More
Issue: Spring/Summer 2004, Issue 7
DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: Under the Village Phone Uganda (VPU) Project, Grameen Foundation USA has teamed up with MTN Uganda to extend cell phone coverage throughout rural Uganda. dot-ORG is working with Grameen on strategic planning, training and monitoring and evaluation of the program.
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Title: Women in Technology Cisco Scholarship Program Proving Popular
Issue: Spring/Summer 2004, Issue 7
DOT: dot-GOV
Summary: With several weeks remaining until the deadline, more than 2000 women from Asia and North Africa have initiated or submitted applications for the Women in Technology (WIT) Scholarship Program. These women are competing for an estimated 450 spaces in the Cisco Networking Academy.
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Title: Community Internet Centers Give Rwanda Access to Information
Issue: Winter 2003, Issue 6
DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: Two community Internet centers (CIC) in Rwanda are providing their local communities vital access to information for both professional and personal uses. These telecenters in Nyanza and Gitarma were opened in partnership with USAID/Rwanda, dot-ORG and local entrepreneurs. They are privately operated, using a sustainable for-profit model to ensure they remain active after the startup project funding ends.
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Title: Community Resource and Learning Center (CRLC) Inauguration in DR Congo
Issue: Winter 2003, Issue 6
DOT: dot-EDU
Summary: July 2003 -- "This is inauguration fever" commented one excited staff member of the newly-opened Community Resource and Learning enter (CRLC) in the Vanga Mission, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
After much anticipation, the Community Resource and Learning Center was inaugurated on July 12, 2003. This Center is located in Vanga, a rural community of approximately 3000 people on the banks of the Kwilu River in Bandundu Province.
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Title: Connectivity and Low Resource Environments
Issue: Winter 2003, Issue 6
DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: On September 24th, 2003, DOT-COM and InterAction co-hosted the second session in its speaker series on ICTs and Development, on Connectivity and Low Resource Environments: DOT-COM. Over 80 participants attended the session held at AED's conference center in Washington, DC.
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Title: dot-GOV Provides Low-Income Women with Technology Skills
Issue: Winter 2003, Issue 6
DOT: dot-GOV
Summary: ot-GOV recently awarded a subcontract to the Institute for International Education (IIE) to implement a collaborative project with CISCO Networking Academies that provides information technology training to low-income Asian and African women. Over 430 scholarships will be provided to women in Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Bangladesh, Nepal, Mongolia and Sri Lanka. The women will be trained at CISCO's Networking Academies located in each country. For every $1 USAID invests in the networking academies, CISCO invests $8.
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Title: Multiple Learning Channels to Attain Education For All in India
Issue: Winter 2003, Issue 6
DOT: dot-EDU
Summary: USAID/India, the Education Development Center and resource partners have developed a three year project to improve the reach and quality of primary school education in Chhattisgharh, Karnataka and eventually Jharkhand State. The Technology Tools for Teaching and Training (T4) in India project will provide teachers with in-service training to improve content and methods, and multichannel instruction in English, Math and Science using media ranging from interactive radio to a mobile video unit.
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Title: NetTel@Africa Publishes AfricaDotEdu: IT Opportunities and Higher Education in Africa
Issue: Winter 2003, Issue 6
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: Powering ICTs and the Internet in Hard-to-Reach Places
Issue: Winter 2003, Issue 6
DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: On Wednesday, October 1st, over 40 professionals met at the USAID Ronald Reagan Building for a panel of informative presentations and discussions on this topic. The session was organized by USAID's Office of Energy and Information Technology in collaboration with Winrock International and Academy for Educational Development (AED), part of the DOT-COM Alliance/dot-ORG.
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Title: Supporting Regional Collaboration on Cyber-Security
Issue: Winter 2003, Issue 6
DOT: dot-GOV
Summary: The dot-GOV program helps support government efforts to encourage new telecom operators and ISPs while providing confidence-building regulation that prevents abuse of greater ICT access. Issues arise because the transborder nature of cyber crime crosses the territoriality of national law enforcement authorities.
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Title: Using GIS for Analysis and Research in Central America: dot-ORG
Issue: Winter 2003, Issue 6
DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: In July 2003, the US Geological Service (USGS) through the EROS Data Center has invited dot-ORG to participate in the new Mesoamerican and Caribbean Geospatial Alliance (MACGA). This initiative seeks to increase the use of geographic information systems (GIS) through compatible mapping standards among mapping resource organizations in Central America.
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Title: Using Telecenters to Implement Romanian Universal Service
Issue: Winter 2003, Issue 6
DOT: DOT-COM
Summary: On the 14th of October, the USAID-funded DOT-COM Romanian Information Technology Initiative (RITI) completed the "roll-out" of computer and telephony equipment in four Romanian Communes to bring universal telephony services to the citizens of Frecatei (Braila County), Balasesti (Galati County), Iana - Vaslui County) and Rebricea (Vaslui County).
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Title: An Innovative Approach to ICT and Telecom Regulation and Policy in Africa
Issue: Fall 2003, Issue 5
DOT: dot-GOV
Summary: Academics, regulators, policymakers and operators from 17 nations met during the last week of May and the first week of June, 2003 in Gaborone, Botswana, to mark the inauguration of NetTel Safari, a two week conference hosted by the NetTel@Africa (Network for Capacity Building and Knowledge Exchange in the Telecommunications Sector) Project.
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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-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: Changing Lives and Education in Guatemala with Internet Connectivity
Issue: Fall 2003, Issue 5
DOT: dot-EDU
Summary: Now as the second phase of the Enlace Quiché project has begun under dot-EDU, including the opening of an additional seven centers, connectivity prices have fallen within sustainable reach of all centers, with Satellite connections for as little as $150/month, which can be covered by each center through user fees. This vast price drop as well as the increasing interest on the part of the project partners, participating schools, and community members in using the Internet, compelled the project to make connectivity a key aspect of all their efforts.
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Title: ICTs Supporting Democracy in Rwanda through Capacity Building at the National Electoral Commission
Issue: Fall 2003, Issue 5
DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: The USAID-funded dot-ORG project in Rwanda is actively engaged in improving the speed, accuracy and transparency of the country's election management system. This work forms a vital part of strengthening Rwanda's electoral process and overall democratization and good governance efforts.
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Title: IT Employability Training Begins for Disadvantaged Brazilian Youth
Issue: Fall 2003, Issue 5
DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: On May 5, 2003, the USAID/Brazil funded Programa para o Futuro, (Program for the Future) officially started training activities in Recife, Brazil. The initiative will prepare the participating youth for employment opportunities as ICT technical support staff in small and medium enterprises, NGOs, and the public sector.
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Title: Tele-cottages to Meet Universal Service Obligations in Romania
Issue: Fall 2003, Issue 5
DOT: dot-GOV
Summary: RITI-Policy dot-GOV Project has developed a proposal for meeting Universal Service Obligations (USO), an European Union Accession (acquis) requirement. The Romanian draft legislation on USO provides a right for all end users to benefit from the provision of basic communications services at a specified quality level, regardless of their geographical location and, at affordable prices.
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Title: The Impact of ICTs on Democratization and Good Governance
Issue: Fall 2003, Issue 5
DOT: DOT-COM
Summary: On June 5th, 2003, DOT-COM and InterAction co-hosted the first session in its speaker series on ICTs and Development, on the Impact of ICTs on Democratization and Good Governance. Over 60 participants attended the session held at AED's conference center in Washington, DC.
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Title: Twelve CLICs to Economic, Social, and Political Growth in Mali
Issue: Fall 2003, Issue 5
DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: In response to the development challenges that Malians face, USAID/Mali, through the dot-ORG project and AED, is enabling local NGOs, teacher training centers, local mayoral offices, rural development parastatals, and private radio stations, to establish and operate at least 12 Community Learning and Information Centers (CLICs) across the country. These multi-purpose centers will provide reliable public access to a wide range of development-related information through computers, the Internet and other technologies.
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Title: WiderNet Digital Library for African Universities via Satellite
Issue: Fall 2003, Issue 5
DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: African universities face a huge bottleneck in accessing the wide variety of educational materials needed for high quality education and research. Through the WiderNet project, this bottleneck is being unblocked, through the ability to access and share digital educational materials via satellite. WiderNet is also training African library staff to digitize their materials so that African research and collections can be shared around the world.
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Title: Building the Multi-sector Regulatory Agency (ARM) in Rwanda
Issue: Summer 2003, Issue 4
DOT: dot-GOV
Summary: dot-GOV is in the final phase of the Telecommunications and Information Technology sector - Legal and Regulatory Reform project, funded by USAID/Rwanda. Under this project, dot-GOV and the Government of Rwanda (GOR) have worked together to establish the Rwandan Multi-sector Regulatory Agency (ARM), with jurisdiction over several market sectors including telecommunications and energy.
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Title: dot-GOV launches SADC ICT Policy and Regulatory Support Program (SIPRS)
Issue: Summer 2003, Issue 4
DOT: dot-GOV
Summary: On 21 November 2002, dot-GOV was awarded the Southern African Development Community (SADC) ICT Policy and Regulatory Support Program (SIPRS) Cooperative Agreement, funded by USAID/ Regional Center for Southern Africa (RCSA) for a period of 18 months. Based in Gaborone, Botswana, the project is lead by Mr. Brian Goulden, Director, and Mr. J. Riley Allen, Senior Technical Advisor.
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Title: dot-GOV Supports State Department Telecommunications Leadership Program (TLP)
Issue: Summer 2003, Issue 4
DOT: dot-GOV
Summary: Since the fall of 2002, dot-GOV has provided support from its Leader Award to the State Department Telecommunications Leadership Program (TLP), through requests from the dot-GOV CTO, Dr. Edward Malloy. This support has ranged from travel, organizing study tours, to providing speakers for conferences. dot-GOV's assistance is considered part of the larger U.S. Government effort to promote telecommunications liberalization, bridging the digital divide, and adoption of the policies that enable e-commerce and e-government.
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Title: International E-commerce and Information Infrastructure Policies Conference
Issue: Summer 2003, Issue 4
DOT: dot-GOV
Summary: Internews Network awarded a $60,000 pilot project sub-grant to the Hawkins Kenan Institute for Private Enterprise to convene a workshop on International E-commerce and Information Infrastructure Policies 12-14 November, Hanoi, Vietnam. The workshop encouraged Vietnamese enterprises to engage in global e-commerce and prepare for international e-commerce policy decision related to trade negotiations.
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Title: Launch of dot-ORG/Intel Computer Clubhouses in South Africa
Issue: Summer 2003, Issue 4
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: Malian Telecommunications Officials Discuss Pivotal Issues with US Counterparts
Issue: Summer 2003, Issue 4
DOT: dot-GOV
Summary: At the request of the Leland Initiative, dot-GOV worked with the Department of State International Visitor Program to assist in the visit of key Malian telecommunications officials in Washington, DC. In January 2003, dot-GOV organized several meetings for Mr. Mobido Camara, Committee for Regulation of Telecommunications (CRT), Mr. Baly Sissoko, National Television, and Mr. Hassane Diombele, National Committee for Access to State Media. Among other venues, the three visited the Federal Communications Commission, a private mobile operator, the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association (NTCA), a local radio station, and other US telecom-related private sector and non-governmental organizations.
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Title: NetTel@Africa Key Accomplishments
Issue: Summer 2003, Issue 4
DOT: dot-GOV
Summary: NetTel@Africa has achieved several key steps in building the network of African telecommunications regulators. In order to improve sector policy formulation, harmonization, implementation, and help develop regulator training programs within African universities, NetTel@africa has developed ten learning modules for regulators, field visits between US and African counterparts, knowledge exchanges and learning partnerships, and Africa.Dot.Edu case studies
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Title: RITI-Access and Peace Corps Collaborate in Romania
Issue: Summer 2003, Issue 4
DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: The Romanian Information Technology Initiative (RITI) - Access project, implemented by dot-ORG, has developed a close working relationship with the Peace Corps/Romania office. RITI-Access and Peace Corps are working together to further economic and social development in Romania through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Brendan Gannon, RITI-Access Chief of Party, and Bill Perry, Deputy Director, Peace Corps Romania signed the MOU marking collaboration efforts. This collaboration has taken the form of work plan development, co-organizing training and capacity building programs, and using Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs) for ongoing project management and local partner development.
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Title: RITI-Policy Working Hand-in-Hand with the Romanian Regulatory Authority
Issue: Summer 2003, Issue 4
DOT: dot-GOV
Summary: The Romanian National Regulatory Authority for Communications (ANRC) and Romania Information Technology Initiative (RITI)-Policy, implemented by Internews Network, continue their work to build a competitive telecommunications market in Romania. RITI-Policy, whose offices are housed in the ANRC, works closely with the Regulatory Authority, bringing experienced perspectives and options, responding to urgent situations facing the ANRC, and demonstrating the impact of ANRC decisions on the competitive market.
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Title: Zambia Interactive Radio Instruction Reaches Out-of-School Children
Issue: Summer 2003, Issue 4
DOT: dot-EDU
Summary: For more than 25 years, Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI) has been used to improve the quality of learning in classrooms. In Zambia, it is going beyond this intial purpose to deliver basic education to out-of-school children, especially orphans and other vulnerable children, in community learning centers
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Title: Building Capacity in Afghanistan's Ministry of Communications
Issue: Winter 2002, Issue 2
DOT: dot-GOV
Summary: Through pilot project funds from the core dot-GOV grant, Internews is providing support to the Ministry of Communications, Afghanistan through external training of staff tasked with telecommunications (in collaboration with the USAID/State Department Telecom Leadership Program and USTTI), and advising the Minister of Communications on telecom policy.
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Title: Building Romanian Regulatory Capacity
Issue: Winter 2002, Issue 2
DOT: dot-GOV
Summary: Internews' implementation of the Romania Information Technology Initiative - Policy component continues apace, having completed two initial capacity-building workshops and one US study tour for Romania's newly created National Regulatory Authority for Communications (ANRC).
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Title: IT Training for Disadvantaged Brazilian Youth
Issue: Winter 2002, Issue 2
DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: In partnership with USAID/Brazil, dot-ORG has stated a new 18-month project to develop and carryout an innovative IT training and employability program for disadvantaged Brazilian youth in Recife, Brazil. To implement this challenging project, dot-ORG is partnering with four Brazilian NGOs via sub-agreements. Also, with help from USAID/Brazil and EGAT/EIT/IT, the project team, comprised of staff from dot-ORG and the four collaborating NGOs, is establishing public-private partnerships with local, national and multinational companies to help with this initiative.
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Title: Legal and Regulatory Reform in Rwanda's Telecommunications and Information Technology Sector
Issue: Winter 2002, Issue 2
DOT: dot-GOV
Summary: Great progress has been made since the last consultancy ended in July 2002, which outlined the organization and job descriptions of the new regulatory agency. The Rwandan Government (GOR) has named a Managing Director, Mr. François Mutembere, who was formerly the Governor of the Rwandan National Bank. Seven individuals (including two women) have also been named to the Board of Directors. This action by the GOR means the administrative and operational development of the regulator can continue.
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Title: NetTel@Africa - Network for Capacity Building and Knowledge Exchange in the Telecommunications Secto
Issue: Winter 2002, Issue 2
DOT: dot-GOV
Summary: NetTel@Africa is establishing an African-led network for capacity building and knowledge exchange in the African telecommunications sector. The project has four primary activities: training, a knowledge exchange network, a community to community component, and research.
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Title: Promoting Innovation at Community Internet Centers
Issue: Winter 2002, Issue 2
DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: The Community Internet Centers Project, known as CIC, will pilot new and innovative uses of ICTs via community Internet centers and other public Internet access points worldwide. CIC will also provide rapid technical assistance to USAID Missions by project and resource partner staff. At then end of the two year project, a report will be written which documents these new models and the lessons learned from CIC.
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Title: All Three "dots" Work in Rwanda
Issue: Fall 2002, Issue 1
DOT: DOT-COM
Summary: All three DOT-COM Alliance members are working in Rwanda to help strengthen the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in government, education, and broad development through three different projects.
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Title: ICTs to Strengthen Intercultural, Bilingual Educators in Quiché, Guatemala
Issue: Fall 2002, Issue 1
DOT: dot-EDU
Summary: USAID/Guatemala-Central American Programs (G-CAP) has signed an Associate Award with dot-EDU to expand the success of an existing activity in the Quiché region that is using ICTs to strengthen the training of intercultural, bilingual educators.
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Title: NetTel@Africa: African-led Network of Telecommunications Regulator Associations
Issue: Fall 2002, Issue 1
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-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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Title: Small Pilot Projects offer Governments Short-term Technical Assistance
Issue: Fall 2002, Issue 1
DOT: dot-GOV
Summary: Since October 2001, Internews Network, through dot-GOV, has responded to five requests for pilot technical assistance activities funded by the core dot-GOV cooperative agreement. These pilot projects have been short in duration but provide the host government with key information that helps move telecommunications restructuring forward, with the ultimate goal of providing universal access and service.
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Title: Strengthening Moroccan Women's Participation in Politics
Issue: Fall 2002, Issue 1
DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: In July 2002, USAID/Morocco and dot-ORG began a three-month information and communications technology (ICT) training project, aimed at enhancing the political participation of Moroccan women. Forty six women political candidates and NGO representatives participated in two three-day training events where they learned how to use ICTs to enhance political campaigns, strengthen advocacy skills, carry out Internet research for informed decision-making, and better serve their communities.
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Title: USAID Welcomes You to DOT-COMments!
Issue: Fall 2002, Issue 1
DOT: DOT-COM
Summary: Welcome to the first issue of our e-newsletter, DOT-COMments, a quarterly review of the recent accomplishments and activities of the DOT-COM Alliance.
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