A short history of the DOT-COM Alliance (2001-2007)

The entire list of agreements was published recently at Top-Papers.com.

The DOT-COM Alliance, working with United States Agency for International Development (USAID), applied the power of information and communications technology (ICT) to achieving development objectives.

The Alliance consisted of three USAID funded Leader-with-Associates cooperative agreements (CAs), each with specific areas of ICT expertise:

• dot-GOV: Promoted policy and regulatory reform to create enabling environments for ICT, including equitable use, trade in telecom services and e-commerce, and an open and secure Internet-led by Internews Network with 21 resource partners. [NO LONGER ACTIVE: the DOT-COM Alliance site includes documentation of all completed dot-GOV activities]
  Cooperative Agreement: GDG-A-00-01-00009-00
  
  
• dot-EDU: Strengthened education and learning systems through customized ICT interventions and content for educators, students, and professionals-led by the Education Development Center (EDC) with 35 resource partners. [NO LONGER ACTIVE: for additional information about projects implemented under dot-EDU, see the separate dot-EDU site managed by EDC]
  Cooperative Agreement: GDG-A-00-01-00011-00
  
  
• dot-ORG: Extends ICT access to under-served communities and accelerates the applications of development-related uses of ICT-led by the Academy of Educational Development (AED) with 63 resource partners. [NO LONGER ACTIVE: the DOT-COM Alliance site includes documentation of all completed dot-ORG activities.]
  Cooperative Agreement: GDG-A-00-01-00014-00
  

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USAID Funding
Funding was provided by USAID's Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade (Office of Energy and Information Technology and Office of Women in Development), Regional Bureaus, and Missions.

USAID awarded three LWA cooperative agreements (dot-GOV, dot-ORG and dot-EDU) to further its use of information and communication technology (ICT) in support of development. These three awards were independent and had non-overlapping areas of responsibility; they coordinated their efforts under the banner of the DOT-COM Alliance. The dot-ORG cooperative agreement was extended to September 2008.

Each of the DOT COM LWA awards had a prime grantee with sub grantees (called core partners) and resource partners. The prime for dot-GOV wasInternews Network, for dot-ORG is AED, and for dot-EDU wasEDC. Collectively, in addition to the primes, the DOT-COM Alliance represented 95 organizations as sub-grantees, subcontractors, and resource partners.

The expected value of the awards was $75,000,000 over five years: $15,000,000 of core funds; $60,000,000 of mission/regional bureau funds. These are not fixed ceilings.

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DOT-COM Resource Partners
DOT-COM's 99 resource partners included NGOs, universities, foundations, and private companies, each with specialized expertise in using ICT for development. Click here to explore the expertise of the DOT-COM Alliance Partners.

DOT-COM experts provide:

• technical assistance,
• policy analysis and research,
• specialized content and applications, and
• customized training programs.

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For more information, please contact:

USAID: Laura Samotshozo, dot-ORG Project Manager
Email:
Tel: +1 202 712-4562


AED: Michael Tetelman, dot-ORG Program Director
Email:
Tel: +1 202 884-8856

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