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Title: ICTs without the Internet
Issue: September 2006, Issue 17
DOT: dot-EDU
Summary: It is often assumed that all ICT initiatives must have Internet components. However, in resource challenged environments such as the D.R. Congo (DRC) and Macedonia, experience has shown that much can be done with interactive technologies to support education without access to the Internet.
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Title: Transforming Opportunities for Women Entrepreneurs
Issue: September 2006, Issue 17
DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: The dot-ORG e-BIZ Project in Macedonia uses ICT to stimulate the growth of the countrys small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in a context of high unemployment (35%+) and low GDP annual growth (just over 1%). Although the project did not aim to serve women-owned businesses exclusively, nor even differentially, it demonstrates an extremely effective approach to using ICT to improve the competitiveness of women-owned businesses.
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Title: Radically Improving Macedonia's Job Application System for Civil Servants: Introducing e-Gov applications to serve all
Issue: February 2006, Issue 15
DOT: dot-GOV
Summary: The introduction and deployment of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the Macedonian Government Services is radically changing the way society and government benefit from each other. The Macedonian Government successfully launched the Apply Online System for Employments in State Employment in Administration in late December 2005. Only two weeks after the system went live, the number of applications doubled. Furthermore, approximately seventy four (74) percent of the job applications were received via the Apply Online system.
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Title: Schools are Wired, Teachers Innovate: E-School Makes an Impact
Issue: February 2006, Issue 15
DOT: dot-EDU
Summary: The goals of the E-School project are to install computers in every primary school and high school in Macedonia and to train teachers to use technology to support student-centered and project-based pedagogy. Two years into the project, E-School has installed more than 5000 computers and trained more than 2500 teachers. These efforts are starting to pay of in terms of impacts as this article indicates.
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Title: Overview of Last Mile Initiative Activities Managed by dot-ORG
Issue: December 2005, Issue 14
DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: Over the past year, dot-ORG has become increasingly involved in USAIDs Last Mile Initiative. Last Mile Initiative keys to success are innovative technology solutions that extend connectivity from the edge of existing networks to the underserved, innovative business models that make the extensions of connectivity profitable and the development of innovative content and applications for users to turn their connectivity to strong advantage. dot-ORG is now implementing LMI projects in four countries (Macedonia, Paraguay, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia) and undertaking an impact assessment activity with an initial assessment in Peru.
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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: Improving Public Management and the ICT Industry in Macedonia through e-Government Applications
Issue: July 2005, Issue 12
DOT: dot-GOV
Summary: Implemented by the dot-GOV/Internews, the e-Gov Impact Project has the mandate to develop and implement e-Government applications in the Republic of Macedonia for public institutions. e-gov Impact is designed to strategically solicit the Macedonian private sector in development of dynamic software applications for public institutions. This article
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Title: Moving Beyond the Computer Lab: E-Schools.mk, Macedonia
Issue: July 2005, Issue 12
DOT: dot-EDU
Summary: E-School.mk is a project funded by the United States Agency for International Developments (USAID) dot-EDU initiative, which is using the computers donated by the Government of the People's Republic of China, in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Science (MoES) of the Republic of Macedonia, to introduce a new concept of information and communication technology (ICT) use in education. The goals of E-School.mk are to install computers in every primary school and high school in Macedonia and to train teachers to use technology to support innovative student- centered and project-based pedagogy.
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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: Gender Strategies in dot-ORG Projects
Issue: May 2005, Issue 11
DOT: dot-ORG
Summary: What do dot-ORG projects in Mali, Brazil, Macedonia and Uganda have in common beyond the fact that they all involve the provision of some form of information technology? They have all designed strategies that take gender into account, strategies that ensure that women have the same opportunities as men to access and utilize information technology.
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Title: Macedonia Takes Initiative With New e-Government Strategy
Issue: Fall 2004, Issue 8
DOT: dot-GOV
Summary: A workshop to refine the e-government strategy of the Government of Macedonia was convened in March 2004. The workshop, sponsored by the USAID/Macedonia in cooperation with the Macedonian Commission for Information Technology (CIT) and the Ministry of Innovation and Technology of the Government of Italy (I-MIT), took place on 15-16 March 2004 in Skopje, Macedonia.
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Title: E-school.Mk: Improving ICT Quality and Promoting Tolerance in Macedonia
Issue: Spring/Summer 2004, Issue 7
DOT: dot-EDU
Summary: The E-school.Mk activity is a product of the current focus by the Macedonian government to alleviate ethnic tensions and to create economic opportunities for young people. Using ICT-informed education programs, this USAID/Macedonia funded project is preparing Macedonian youth for employment and improving quality and relevance of instruction at the secondary level.
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